ABSTRACT
Starting in the 1950s, philosophers devoted an enormous amount of effort to the project of distinguishing moral judgments from other sorts of normative judgments. The first half of this chapter describes these attempts and offers an account of why they failed. It then describes how psychologists interested in characterizing “the moral domain” took up substantially the same task, which had largely been abandoned by philosophers. The second half of the chapter argues that psychologists have also failed in their attempts to define distinctively moral cognition and concludes with the suggestion that there is no well-motivated way of dividing our normative judgments into those that are moral in nature and those that are not.
