MORAL COMPETENCE IS COGNITIVE BUT (PERHAPS) NONMODULAR

Authors
DWYER S
Citation
S. Dwyer, MORAL COMPETENCE IS COGNITIVE BUT (PERHAPS) NONMODULAR, Behavioral and brain sciences, 19(1), 1996, pp. 128
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,"Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
19
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1996)19:1<128:MCICB(>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Barresi & Moore's account has a least two implications for moral psych ology. First, it appears to provide support for cognitive theories of moral competence. Second, their claim that the development of social u nderstanding depends upon domain-general changes in cognitive ability appears to oppose the idea that moral competence is underpinned by a m oral module.