John Rawls and Cognitive Science

Some of you may find this book chapter interesting:

Hauer, M.D., Young, L., & Cushman, F. (in press): Reviving Rawls' Linguistic Analogy: Operative principles and the causal structure of moral actions. In Moral Psychology and Biology.

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