There are some omissions people get lots of training about at a young age, like not saying thank you, and not sharing, and I think those things as a result get quasi-moralized.
But I like this idea - deontology is basically what happens when you learn like a simple behaviorist predicts, just by reinforcing actions, but it takes some more sophistication to associate good and bad with the outcomes.
Where do you see Tomasello’s work fitting in here, where he argues that people objectivize norms about how people around here do things?
No, in all seriousness, I'm less persuaded by the debunking argument there, just because the vindication of this objectivizing mechanism would then vindicate so much of what I find just obviously true about morality, just as the vindication of natural selection as a moral-belief-forming mechanism would, for instance, or reinforcement learning of moral rules in a basically normal, loving environment. By contrast, the vindication of the narrower mechanisms I discuss in this piece don't seem to capture as much, explanatorily speaking, and I think that's one of the main differences. I gesture towards some of this at the end of the piece but I might write another post about moral debunking arguments...
Very nice!
There are some omissions people get lots of training about at a young age, like not saying thank you, and not sharing, and I think those things as a result get quasi-moralized.
But I like this idea - deontology is basically what happens when you learn like a simple behaviorist predicts, just by reinforcing actions, but it takes some more sophistication to associate good and bad with the outcomes.
Where do you see Tomasello’s work fitting in here, where he argues that people objectivize norms about how people around here do things?
That's totally different because it targets a view that I like.
No, in all seriousness, I'm less persuaded by the debunking argument there, just because the vindication of this objectivizing mechanism would then vindicate so much of what I find just obviously true about morality, just as the vindication of natural selection as a moral-belief-forming mechanism would, for instance, or reinforcement learning of moral rules in a basically normal, loving environment. By contrast, the vindication of the narrower mechanisms I discuss in this piece don't seem to capture as much, explanatorily speaking, and I think that's one of the main differences. I gesture towards some of this at the end of the piece but I might write another post about moral debunking arguments...