Universal moral grammar: a critical appraisal

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 373-378

  Dupoux, Emmanuel ^a,b   Jacob, Pierre ^c  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^c INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE; MORAL DIVERSITY; MORAL GRAMMAR;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EMPATHY; ETHICS; GRAMMAR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORALITY; PSYCHOPATHY;

EMPATHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORAL DEVELOPMENT; MORALS; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 34548304978     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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