Sentence examples for reflection reasoning from inspiring English sources

One potential lesson from evolutionary biology, however, is that even if the autonomy assumption equally applies in principle to the sphere of moral judgment, it may be a mistake just to assume that most moral judgment and behavior is in fact a result of the exercise of such autonomous reflection, reasoning and judgment.

When asked to describe what this would look like, informants talked about a multi-faceted culture of: inquiry, curiosity, critical consumerism, supported risk taking, constructive challenge, quality improvement, excellence, innovation, trust, respect, reflection, reasoning, learning and sharing.

7. Another way to put the point is that there is no obvious boundary to be drawn between the type of reflection and reasoning people have engaged in for millennia in their more sophisticated moral thinking and the kind of reflection and reasoning people like Wilson (1998) and others are engaging in when they argue for deflationary views of moral thought.

On the following point about changes, see J. M. Patxton, L. Ungar, and J. Greene, "Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment" Cognitive Science 36: 1, p. 163-177.

Interpreting Locke's notion of reflection as reasoning rather than as introspection, Leibniz supposed that Locke was more of a rationalist than he really was.

One possibility is to understand theoretical reflection as reasoning about questions of explanation and prediction.

We tend to think that a person has the moral beliefs she does as a result of background moral reflection and reasoning, within her cultural context.

In this vein, Street claims that whatever moral reflection and reasoning we engage in is limited merely to assessing "thoroughly contaminated" evaluative beliefs using "tools of rational reflection [that are] equally contaminated" (Street 2006: 12006

But this is not a problem if we also have a culturally developed capacity for autonomous moral reflection and reasoning that allows us to attain moral knowledge despite the presence of some unreliable influences.

Many moral beliefs for example, concerning the moral irrelevance of sexual preference, the moral equality of persons of all races and nationalities, or moral obligations even to future generations in far away countries are much more plausible candidates for being upshots of autonomous moral reflection and reasoning.

Even if there is significant evolutionary influence on the content of many of our moral beliefs, it remains possible that many of our moral beliefs are arrived at partly (or in some cases wholly) through autonomous moral reflection and reasoning, just as with our mathematical, scientific and philosophical beliefs.