Moral Foundations of Philosophy of Mind by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030184926
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

8. Conclusion: Back to Scientific and Relaxed Naturalism

The aim of the present investigation of psychological self-ascriptions has been to show the inherent normative and even moral dimension of such ascriptions. By showing the impossibility of a normatively and morally neutral understanding the inner lives of human beings, this investigation challenges the idea, central to scientific naturalism, that we can establish an absolute distinction between what we are, say, and do and how we should judge what we are, say, and do in prudential and moral terms, at least in the case of psychological self-ascriptions. The investigation also supplements current discussions in relaxed naturalism by showing that there are no sharp lines between the non-moral and the moral, which means that even if morality is not an all-pervasive dimension of our lives, it is impossible to offer a default demarcation of its extension. In this way, the investigation poses a challenge to the distinction between realm of law and sphere of reason in relaxed naturalism by revealing a continuity between our brute feelings and expressions, for example of pain, and the sophisticated, conceptual, and morally significant ways in which we can come to express ourselves. That is, with regard to our inner lives, the brute and the moral elements make up a continuum in the framework of our psychological self-ascriptions and cannot be separated into two distinct realms or spheres.15

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