TY - JOUR
T1 - Reliable but not home free?
T2 - What framing effects mean for moral intuitions
AU - Andow, James
PY - 2016/6/7
Y1 - 2016/6/7
N2 - Various studies show moral intuitions to be susceptible to framing effects. Many have argued that this susceptibility is a sign of unreliability and that this poses a methodological challenge for moral philosophy. Recently, doubt has been cast on this idea. It has been argued that extant evidence of framing effects does not show that moral intuitions have an unreliability problem. I argue that, even if the extant evidence suggests that moral intuitions are fairly stable with respect to what intuitions we have, the effect of framing on the strength of those intuitions still needs to be taken into account. I argue that this by itself poses a methodological challenge for moral philosophy.
AB - Various studies show moral intuitions to be susceptible to framing effects. Many have argued that this susceptibility is a sign of unreliability and that this poses a methodological challenge for moral philosophy. Recently, doubt has been cast on this idea. It has been argued that extant evidence of framing effects does not show that moral intuitions have an unreliability problem. I argue that, even if the extant evidence suggests that moral intuitions are fairly stable with respect to what intuitions we have, the effect of framing on the strength of those intuitions still needs to be taken into account. I argue that this by itself poses a methodological challenge for moral philosophy.
KW - Epistomology of philosophy
KW - Intuitions
KW - Metaphilosophy
KW - Moral intuitions
KW - Moral Psychology
KW - Philosophical methodology
KW - Philosophical methods
KW - Trolley cases
U2 - 10.1080/09515089.2016.1168794
DO - 10.1080/09515089.2016.1168794
M3 - Article
SN - 0951-5089
VL - 29
SP - 904
EP - 911
JO - Philosophical Psychology
JF - Philosophical Psychology
IS - 6
ER -