caa a22 4500 445359331 CHVBK 20180317142910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10892-010-9088-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10892-010-9088-5 Ethics and Intuitions: A Reply to Singer [Elektronische Daten] [Joakim Sandberg, Niklas Juth] In a recent paper, Peter Singer suggests that some interesting new findings in experimental moral psychology support what he has contended all along—namely that intuitions should play little or no role in adequate justifications of normative ethical positions. Not only this but, according to Singer, these findings point to a central flaw in the method (or epistemological theory) of reflective equilibrium used by many contemporary moral philosophers. In this paper, we try to defend reflective equilibrium from Singer's attack and, in part, we do this by discussing Singer's own favoured moral methodology as outlined in his Practical Ethics. Although basing ethics solely on (certain kinds of) intuitions certainly is problematic, we argue, basing it solely on ‘reason' gives rise to similar problems. The best solution would arguably be one which could strike a balance between the two—but, we suggest, this is precisely what reflective equilibrium is all about. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 The evolution of morality nationallicence Intuitions nationallicence Moral psychology nationallicence Neuroscience nationallicence Reflective equilibrium nationallicence Peter Singer nationallicence Sandberg Joakim Department of Philosophy, Linguistics & Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 200, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden aut Juth Niklas Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Berzelius väg 3, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden aut The Journal of Ethics Springer Netherlands 15/3(2011-09-01), 209-226 1382-4554 15:3<209 2011 15 10892 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-010-9088-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-010-9088-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sandberg Joakim Department of Philosophy, Linguistics & Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 200, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Juth Niklas Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Berzelius väg 3, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Ethics Springer Netherlands 15/3(2011-09-01), 209-226 1382-4554 15:3<209 2011 15 10892 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer