Joshua Knobe - Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist

Are our attributions of intentional action influenced by whether we think the action was morally right or wrong? What about our judgments of causation? Or even of whether a trait is innate or not? Are moral judgments far more pervasive and influential than one might have supposed?

Philosophical Conversations - Sarah-Jane Leslie, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, conducts interviews with some of the world's leading philosophers through her association with the Marc Sanders Foundation. In this interview Professor Leslie meets with Joshua Knobe, Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Yale University, to discuss findings that reflect our tendency to view everything through the lens of moral judgment.