The genealogy of the moral modules

Minds and Machines

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 233-255

  Bolender, John ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Faculty; Mental representation; Modularity; Module; Moral cognition; Moral emotions; Relational models theory

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

MORAL COGNITION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037405619     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022902510039     Document Type: Article

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