The Moral Problem

By Nicholas L. Sturgeon, M. Smith. 1994

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. Linda J. Skitka
2. Geoffrey P. Goodwin
3. Elizabeth Mullen
4. Jared Piazza
5. Janice Nadler
6. J. Darley
7. Justin F. Landy
8. N. Kolodny

Citations in the corpus

• “Lean not on your own understanding”: Belief that morality is founded on divine authority and non-utilitarian moral judgments (2013, background): “Meta-ethics refers to a set of beliefs that people have about the nature or properties of morality, including beliefs about the origin or foundations of morality— or where morality comes from (Nielsen, 1990; Smith, 1994).”
• Why Be Rational (2005, background): “Smith (1994), for example, proposes that one's having a reason to do something in given circumstances is its being the case that one would desire that one did it in those circumstances, if one were fully rational.”