Moral principles in May's Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind

Behav Brain Sci. 2019 Sep 11:42:e160. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18002674.

Abstract

Joshua May offers four principles that might serve as the rational foundations of moral judgments. I argue that these principles, if they are independent of affect, are too weak to be the basis of any substantive moral judgment and do not fit with the idea that morality is categorical.