Provider: Ingenta Connect Database: Ingenta Connect Content: application/x-research-info-systems TY - ABST AU - Kumar, Victor AU - Campbell, Richmond TI - On the normative significance of experimental moral psychology JO - Philosophical Psychology PY - 2012-06-01T00:00:00/// VL - 25 IS - 3 SP - 311 EP - 330 KW - Debunking KW - Moral Psychology KW - Consistency Reasoning KW - Joshua Greene N2 - Experimental research in moral psychology can be used to generate debunking arguments in ethics. Specifically, research can indicate that we draw a moral distinction on the basis of a morally irrelevant difference. We develop this naturalistic approach by examining a recent debate between Joshua Greene and Selim Berker. We argue that Greene's research, if accurate, undermines attempts to reconcile opposing judgments about trolley cases, but that his attempt to debunk deontology fails. We then draw some general lessons about the possibility of empirical debunking arguments in ethics. UR - https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cphp/2012/00000025/00000003/art00001 M3 - doi:10.1080/09515089.2012.660140 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2012.660140 ER -