Scepticism about moral superiority

Scepticism About Intuition

Long after Pyrrho, epistemology wrestles with scepticism about our knowledge of the external world. We know about the external world through perception. But that knowledge is hard to understand. Because perception seems to be our only means to assess its own reliability, we appear to be caught in a kind of epistemic circle: how can we rationally trust a faculty whose trustworthiness can be know...

MORAL SUPERIORITY AND MORAL BEHAVIOR 1 Investigating the relationship between self-perceived moral superiority and moral behavior using economic games

The Illusion of Moral Superiority

Most people strongly believe they are just, virtuous, and moral; yet regard the average person as distinctly less so. This invites accusations of irrationality in moral judgment and perception-but direct evidence of irrationality is absent. Here, we quantify this irrationality and compare it against the irrationality in other domains of positive self-evaluation. Participants (N = 270) judged th...

Philosophical ‘Intuitions’ and Scepticism about Judgement

1. What are called ‘intuitions’ in philosophy are just applications of our ordinary capacities for judgement. We think of them as intuitions when a special kind of scepticism about those capacities is salient. 2. Like scepticism about perception, scepticism about judgement pressures us into conceiving our evidence as facts about our internal psychological states: here, facts about our conscious...

Developing a Healthy Scepticism About Technology in Mathematics Teaching

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