ABSTRACT
Triple Process Moral Psychology is a comprehensive account of moral judgment and reasoning. The main idea behind it is that moral judgment is only insufficiently understood when described in terms of an automatic System I and a conscious System II. Moral judgment is based on an integrated network of intuitive, algorithmic, and reflective processing. Like most other theories of moral cognition, the Triple Process framework proposed acknowledges the essentially intuitive basis of moral judgment. Such intuition override, the conditions under which it happens, the circumstances under which it fails to happen, and the psychological resources necessary to make it happen form the core of the theory. Many people will suspect that the difference between Dual and Triple process theory is merely semantic. Contaminated moral mindware is perhaps the most important category of moral error in a Triple Process framework. The Triple Process account offers a form of rationalism with a pessimistic twist.
