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The Making of Moral Foundations Theory with Jesse Graham

The Moral Science Podcast

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The Role of Descriptive Theory in Moral Psychology

The framing of studies as disgust is not a legitimate moral concern, like I talked about earlier. And saying therefore disgust is sort of this red herring for real moral judgments. Well, that if you read those papers, if you go back and read like the top moral psychology papers that have been coming out the last couple of decades, there's no normative conclusion in any of them. That doesn't seem to be a scientific descriptive statement. Do you agree or disagree with that? A normative position.

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