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Moral Perception: seeing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Treballs Finals del Màster en Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge, Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2022-2023, Tutor: Josefa Toribio Mateas

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Attentional moral perception (AMP) is the most recent and less-controversial version
of moral perceptualism, the claim that we can represent moral properties such as being right or
wrong in perception. AMP features an attentional, albeit perceptual sensitivity to moral
difference-makers that need not involve the perceptual representation of the moral properties
themselves. In this essay, I examine the empirical and theoretical basis of this proposal, delving
into the methodological imprecisions and problematic implications that comes with endorsing
it. On the empirical side, I cast doubt on the validity of the data and the fitness of the
experimental designs typically invoked to defend the view. On the theoretical side, I articulate
a more controlled example and, borrowing a classic argument from Speaks (2010), I argue that
AMP ultimately needs to commit to phenomenologically rich ‘attentional states’ and renounce
the transparency of perception. Clinical and evolutive aspects of AMP are also discussed.

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Màster Oficial - Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge (CCiL)

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Moral Perception: seeing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly