I’m not saying the philosophical debate is interesting or important (or that it’s not), but the claim that psychologists have settled the question relies on an equivocation on ‘moral judgement’: in the psychological study, giving an answer to a moral question which comports with answers given by healthy people is a sufficient condition on moral judgement. For philosophers, it is neither necessary, not sufficient. Clearly, they are not talking about the same thing.
This pattern-matches an awful lot to “if a tree falls in a forest...”
Yeah, but at a sufficiently low resolution (such as my description), lots of stuff pattern-matches, so: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-motivation/#MorJudMot
I’m not saying the philosophical debate is interesting or important (or that it’s not), but the claim that psychologists have settled the question relies on an equivocation on ‘moral judgement’: in the psychological study, giving an answer to a moral question which comports with answers given by healthy people is a sufficient condition on moral judgement. For philosophers, it is neither necessary, not sufficient. Clearly, they are not talking about the same thing.