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Published on: January 15, 2018
Innate valuation, existential framing, and one head for multiple moral hats
1Department of Psychology & Institute of Liberal Arts,Emory University,Atlanta,GA 30322.bree.beal@emory.edupsypr@emory.edu.
Abstract:
We support John Doris's criticism of "reflectivism" but identify three shortcomings: (1) his neglect of humans' evolved predispositions and tendencies, (2) his failure to appreciate that identity and responsibility arise first from parsing our world ontologically, in a process we call "existential framing," and (3) a potentially alarming implication of his "dialogic" model of identity formation: if identity is negotiated across diverse social situations, why isn't dissociative identity disorder more common?
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