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Blaming for Unreasonableness: Accountability without Ill Will by Ayars, Alisabeth

“…Quality of will accounts of moral responsibility hold that ill will is necessary for blameworthiness. But all such accounts are false to ordinary moral…”
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Spatially rearranged object parts can facilitate perception of intact whole objects by Cacciamani, Laura, Ayars, Alisabeth A, Peterson, Mary A

“…The familiarity of an object depends on the spatial arrangement of its parts; when the parts are spatially rearranged, they form a novel, unrecognizable…”
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Deciding for Others: An Expressivist Theory of Normative Judgment by Ayars, Alisabeth

“…This paper develops a new form of metaethical expressivism according to which the normative judgment that X should Φ consists in a decision that X Φ. When the…”
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Attraction, Aversion, and Meaning in Life by Ayars, Alisabeth

“…Desire comes in two kinds: attraction and aversion. But contemporary theories of desire have paid little attention to the distinction, and some philosophers…”
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Can model-free reinforcement learning explain deontological moral judgments? by Ayars, Alisabeth

“…Dual-systems frameworks propose that moral judgments are derived from both an immediate emotional response, and controlled/rational cognition. Recently Cushman…”
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Rational learners and metaethics: Universalism, relativism, and evidence from consensus by Ayars, Alisabeth, Nichols, Shaun

“…Recent work in folk metaethics finds a correlation between perceived consensus about a moral claim and meta‐ethical judgments about whether the claim is…”
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Moral empiricism and the bias for act-based rules by Ayars, Alisabeth, Nichols, Shaun

“…•The paper provides evidence that people form overhypotheses about rules.•Overhypotheses guide rule learning.•Provides new resources for moral empricism…”
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Can skeletomotor action integration occur without consciousness? Evidence from unconscious action inhibition by Ayars, Alisabeth

“…Morsella et al. claim that consciousness functions to integrate incompatible skeletal muscle intentions. Their primary cases of conscious skeletomotor…”
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Noncognitivism and agent-centered norms by Ayars, Alisabeth, Rosen, Gideon

“…This paper takes up a neglected problem for metaethical noncognitivism: the characterization of the acceptance states for agent-centered normative theories…”
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Note on Definition and Impossibility by Ayars, Alisabeth

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The Publicity of Practical Reasons by Ayars, Alisabeth

“…This dissertation consists of three papers relating to the theme of the shared nature of practical reasons. The first two, taken together, aim to derive and…”
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Rational Learners and Moral Rules by Nichols, Shaun, Kumar, Shikhar, Lopez, Theresa, Ayars, Alisabeth, Chan, Hoi-Yee

“…People draw subtle distinctions in the normative domain. But it remains unclear exactly what gives rise to such distinctions. On one prominent approach,…”
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Semantic Unmasking Effect is Not Explained by Triggering of Memory by Ayars, Alisabeth, Peterson, Mary, Sanguinetti, Joseph

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What explains a semantic unmasking effect? by Ayars, Alisabeth

“…Sanguinetti and Peterson (2013) found that masked words (e.g., “telephone”) followed by a semantically related familiar silhouette (e.g., a silhouette of a…”
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