Cognitive science and liberal contractualism: a good friendship
In this paper, I shall argue that both cognitivism and liberal contractualism defend a pre-moral conception of human desire that has its origin in the Hobbesian and Humean tradition that both theories share. Moreover, the computational and syntactic themes in cognitive science support the notion, wh...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2005 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/104217 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104217 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 130.11 159.9.016.1 Cognitive science Liberal contractualism Ethics Human Desire Ciencia cognitiva Contractualismo liberal Ética Deseo humano Humanidades Filosofía Filosofía de la mente Psicología cognitiva 72 Filosofía 7102.04 Ética Filosófica 7207.04 Filosofía Política |
| Sumario: | In this paper, I shall argue that both cognitivism and liberal contractualism defend a pre-moral conception of human desire that has its origin in the Hobbesian and Humean tradition that both theories share. Moreover, the computational and syntactic themes in cognitive science support the notion, which Gauthier evidently shares, that the human mind – or, in Gauthier's case, the mind of "economic man" – is a purely formal mechanism, characterized by logical and mathematical operations. I shall conclude that a single conception of human behaviour runs through the various dominant psychological, moral and political theories of analytic inspiration. |
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