Finally, they assumed a particular picture or model of ethical theorizing, according to which a vast, tightly organized system of judgments is supported by a pivotally placed keystone composed of one or two principles, such as Kant's categorical imperative.
One aspect of this doctrine is a kind of holism about content, which holds that any individual belief or judgment gets its content only in virtue of being part of a system of judgments.
Charles insists on addressing the notes; but he shows us how behind the notes are felt needs, requirements, laws of how things ought to be — a whole system of judgment, of taste, of meaning.
Specifically, we advance the proposition that due to its distant evolutionary roots, the affective system of judgment is inherently more ordinal (less cardinal) than the cognitive system.
According to error management theory (Haselton, 2003), evolutionary pressures shaped an adaptively biased system of judgment in men that minimizes the risk of missing mating opportunities, even though this means that men frequently invest resources in women who are not actually interested in them (Haselton & Buss, 2000).
According to error management theory (Haselton & Buss, 2000), natural selection will often produce adaptively biased systems of judgment, even when these systems produce more errors than alternative designs.
At the center of that critique is Foucault's claim that modern psychiatry, while purporting to be grounded in scientific truths, is primarily a system of moral judgments.
But without them, the show couldn't faithfully represent the art world — or offer a plausible alternative to the system of value judgments that runs the commercial side of it.
If so, then he (no less than the realist) will reject the initial premise of the argument, that "our system of evaluative judgments is thoroughly saturated with evolutionary influence".
A great river of pop, soulful, demotic, camp, performative, outrageous, over-the-top cultural goods flooded the scene, and Macdonald's system of critical judgment was left stranded on the far shore.
There is a second system of thought and judgment, says Kahneman, that's more rational, but we're usually too lazy to use it unless something forces us to.
