15 Harris' thought may be that the cognitive causes and content of racial aversion render it insusceptible to attenuation unless cognition-improving means are employed.
However, it should be noted that other cognitive causes of inattentive behaviour should also be investigated.
Racial aversion, too, might be mitigated by means that leave its putative cognitive causes intact.
Cognitive causes involve innate characteristics, being either low intelligence or simply poor cognitive abilities in mathematics [ 17].
Even if the relevant emotions have cognitive content, and cognitive causes, we may still be able to attenuate them directly.
And second, that racial aversion is likely to have cognitive causes, to be ' based on false beliefs'.
First and foremost, it provided a structure for analysing instances of non-adherence in terms of their cognitive causes.
Reason 8 distinguishes between three broad categories of error that have different cognitive causes: slips and lapses, mistakes, and violations.
The claims Harris uses to support it – that morally relevant emotions have cognitive content, and that they have cognitive causes – do nothing to show that these emotions could not be modulated directly.
