Mikhail John
Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2007 Apr;11(4):143-52. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.12.007. Epub 2007 Feb 27.
Scientists from various disciplines have begun to focus attention on the psychology and biology of human morality. One research program that has recently gained attention is universal moral grammar (UMG). UMG seeks to describe the nature and origin of moral knowledge by using concepts and models similar to those used in Chomsky's program in linguistics. This approach is thought to provide a fruitful perspective from which to investigate moral competence from computational, ontogenetic, behavioral, physiological and phylogenetic perspectives. In this article, I outline a framework for UMG and describe some of the evidence that supports it. I also propose a novel computational analysis of moral intuitions and argue that future research on this topic should draw more directly on legal theory.
来自各个学科的科学家们已开始关注人类道德的心理学和生物学。一个最近受到关注的研究项目是普遍道德语法（UMG）。UMG试图通过使用与乔姆斯基语言学项目中所使用的概念和模型相似的概念和模型，来描述道德知识的本质和起源。这种方法被认为能提供一个富有成效的视角，从计算、个体发生、行为、生理和系统发育的角度来研究道德能力。在本文中，我概述了UMG的一个框架，并描述了一些支持它的证据。我还提出了一种对道德直觉的新颖计算分析，并认为未来关于这个主题的研究应该更直接地借鉴法律理论。
