Vanello, Daniel;
(2022)
Moral understanding, affect, and the imagination.
Inquiry
10.1080/0020174x.2022.2077431.
(In press).
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to defend the view that we need to conceive our moral understanding as in part constituted by our affective and imaginative abilities suitably related. The core argument is that in order to be able to understand and explain the truth of a given moral proposition, we need to understand what the relevant moral concepts refer to, that is, we need to understand the semantic value of the relevant moral concepts. In the moral domain, I argue, this involves appealing to our affective and imaginative abilities suitably related. My account provides a genuinely new alternative to current accounts of moral understanding because it brings in both affect and the imagination central stage. Moreover, my account is a defense of the view that our moral understanding is a distinctive kind of understanding not reducible to non-moral kinds of understanding. The upshot of my argument is a new position in questions about the nature of moral understanding that focuses on the peculiarities of understanding in the moral domain.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Moral understanding, affect, and the imagination |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0020174x.2022.2077431 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2022.2077431 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Moral understanding, affect, imagination, perspective-taking, hills |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195827 |
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