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Setayesh Radkani1, Rebecca Saxe1
1Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA radkani@mit.edu saxe@mit.edu.
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Diverse cognitive processes underlying human moral judgment can be understood as resource rational approximations of full bargaining of social contracts. We extend this theory by highlighting delegation to legitimate representatives as another key resource rational strategy. Considering delegation introduces a new set of cognitive mechanisms and heuristics that could be incorporated in a resource rational contractualist theory of morality.
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