DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x2510157x ISSN: 0140-525X
Culturally-evolved joint programs as a bridge between social norms and in-the-moment reasoning
Dhara Yu, Bill D. ThompsonAbstract
We support the proposal and advocate for greater continuity between in-the-moment moral reasoning and culturally-evolved moral norms. The target article construes culturally-evolved norms as rigid byproducts of blind selection and therefore out of scope. A more integrative account can be achieved by viewing norms as culturally-evolved joint programs that reflect a history of resource-rational reasoning by the people who learned them and passed them on.