NDLI: What Does the Frame Problem Tell us About Moral Normativity?

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Author	Horgan, Terry Timmons, Mark
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Within cognitive science, mental processing is often construed as computation over mental representations—i.e., as the manipulation and transformation of mental representations in accordance with rules of the kind expressible in the form of a computer program. This foundational approach has encountered a long-standing, persistently recalcitrant, problem often called the frame problem; it is sometimes called the relevance problem. In this paper we describe the frame problem and certain of its apparent morals concerning human cognition, and we argue that these morals have significant import regarding both the nature of moral normativity and the human capacity for mastering moral normativity. The morals of the frame problem bode well, we argue, for the claim that moral normativity is not fully systematizable by exceptionless general principles, and for the correlative claim that such systematizability is not required in order for humans to master moral normativity.
Starting Page	25
Ending Page	51
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13862820
Journal	Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728447
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-12-10
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Frame problem Relevance problem Computational cognitive science Particularism Generalism Moral normativity Ontology Political Philosophy Ethics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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