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Question for the essay this week is hard to understand. Hopefully thinking about Huebner et al will help

‘Does emotion influence moral judgment or merely motivate morally relevant action?’

Huebner et al, 2009

Huebner et al, 2009 figure 1 (part)

This is how Sinnott-Armstrong et al (2010) understand the situation ...

Huebner et al, 2009 figure 1 (part)

But an influence of emotion on responses is also thought to be compatible with a range of other options.
For example, Could it be that emotion of disgust influences how the scenario is interpreted?
Perhaps, for example, feelings of disgust make morally relevant features of a situation more salient and this somehow make people more likely to judge an action wrong.
In principle, there is a wide range of ways that disgust and other emotions could influence what people say about the moral wrongness of actions in vignettes ...

Huebner et al, 2009 figure 1

‘these data fail to isolate the precise point at which emotion has a role in our moral psychology. ...

emotional stimuli ... presented before the scenario is read could

... influence the interpretation of the scenario

or the question.

Or, emotion could act as a gain on what has already been conceived as a moral infraction (thereby, increasing the severity of the perceived wrong)’

(Huebner et al., 2009, pp. 2--3).

puzzle

Why do feelings of disgust influence moral intuitoins?

(And why do we feel disgust in response to moral transgressions?)

puzzle

Why do patterns in moral intutions reflect legal principles humans are typically unaware of?

Eskine et al, 2011 figure 1

This model where the emotion influences the response seems to be consistent with experimental data. After all, the data we have seen generally report a change in harshness, rather than a shift from neutral to bad (say).
So I think Huebner et al. (2009) raise an interesting possibility. (This is not the same thing as saying that I think their view should be accepted.)

Just because it is logically possible
doesn’t mean it is a hypothesis worth testing.

Default intepretation of question for essay 1: which if any of these three models is best supported by evidence.
So this is the thing we have to decide between. Does the available theoretical considerations and evidence support one over the other? Or is there no way to decide between them?