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Highlighted publications
Sauer, H. C. (2018). Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow. Routledge.
Sauer, H. C. (2017). Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions. MIT Press.
Sauer, H. C. (2018). Debunking Arguments in Ethics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108529181
Sauer, H. (2023). Moral. Die Erfindung von Gut und Böse. Piper.
Sauer, H. (2023). Moral Teleology: A Theory of Progress. Routledge.
Publications
2024
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H. (Accepted/In press). The Invention of Good and Evil. A World History of Morality. Oxford University Press.
2023
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H. (2023). The End(s) of History: A Reply to Sauer. Inquiry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2023.2190771
Sauer, H. (2023). Moral Teleology: A Theory of Progress. Routledge.
Paldan, K., Sauer, H. C., & Wagner, N.-F. (2023). Promoting inequality? Self-monitoring applications and the problem of social justice. AI and Society, 38(6), 2597–2607. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0835-7
Popularising publications
Sauer, H. (2023). Moral. Die Erfindung von Gut und Böse. Piper.
2022
Scholarly publications
Rehren, P., & Sauer, H. (2022). Another Brick in the Wall? Moral Education, Social Learning, and Moral Progress. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-022-10351-3
Sauer, H. (Accepted/In press). The End of History. Inquiry (United Kingdom).
Blunden, C. T., Rehren, P., & Sauer, H. C. (2022). Implicit Cognition, Dual Process Theory, and Moral Judgment. In R. J. Thompson (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition (pp. 105-114). (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003014584-10
2021
Scholarly publications
Eriksen, C., Sauer, H., Blunden, C., & Rehren, P. (2021). Moral Progress: Recent Developments. Philosophy Compass, 16(10), 1-10. Article e12769. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12769
Sauer, H., & Klenk, M. (Accepted/In press). Moral Judgment and Moral Progress. The Problem of Cognitive Control. Philosophical Psychology.
Sauer, H., & Klenk, M. (Accepted/In press). Moral Judgment and Moral Progress. The Problem of Cognitive Control. Philosophical Psychology.
Sauer, H. C. (Accepted/In press). Against Moral Judgment: The Empirical Case for Moral Abolitionism. Philosophical Explorations.
Sauer, H. C., & Wiegmann, A. (2021). The Psychology of Moral Judgment. In M. Knauff, & W. Spohn (Eds.), Handbook of Rationality MIT Press.
2020
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H. C. (2020). Moralischer Rationalismus. Eine pessimistische Verteidigung. In N. Paulo, & C. Bublitz (Eds.), Empirische Ethik: Grundlagentexte aus Psychologie und Philosophie (pp. 358-387). Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft.
Sauer, H. C., & Hindriks, F. (2020). The Mark of the Moral: Beyond the Sentimentalist Turn. Philosophical Psychology, 33(4), 569-591. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2020.1731444
Sauer, H. C. (2020). Economic Exceptionalism? Justice and the Liberal Conception of Rights. Moral Philosophy and Politics, 7(1), 151–167. https://doi.org/10.1515/mopp-2018-0047
2019
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H. C. (2019). Butchering Benevolence: Moral Progress Beyond the Expanding Circle. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 22(1), 153-167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-019-09983-9
Sauer, H. C. (2019). The Argument from Agreement: How Universal Values Undermine Moral Realism. Ratio, 32(4), 339-352. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12233
Sauer, H. C. (2019). The Cost of Consequentialization. Metaphilosophy, 50(1-2), 100-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12347
Kraaijeveld, S., & Sauer, H. C. (2019). Metamorality without Moral Truth. Neuroethics, 12, 119–131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-018-9378-3
2018
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H. C. (2018). Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow. Routledge.
Sauer, H. C. (2018). Debunking Arguments in Ethics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108529181
Sauer, H. C. (2018). No excuses for moral realism. Philosophical Studies, 175(3), 553-578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-0882-9
2017
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H. C. (2017). Between Facts and Norms: Ethics and Empirical Moral Psychology. In B. Voyer, & T. Tarantola (Eds.), Moral psychology: a multidisciplinary guide Springer.
Sauer, H. C., Köhler, S., & Roughley, N. (2017). Technologically blurred accountability? Technology, responsibility gaps and the robustness of our everyday conceptual scheme. In C. Ulbert, P. Finkenbusch, E. Sondermann, & T. D. (Eds.), Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility Routledge.
Sauer, H. C. (2017). Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions. MIT Press.
2016
Professional publications
Sauer, H. (2016). Metabolizing cognition. Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 108(2), 179-182. https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2016.2.SAUE
2015
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H. (2015). Can’t we all disagree more constructively? Moral foundations, moral reasoning, and political disagreement. Neuroethics, 8(2), 153-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-015-9235-6
2014
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H. (2014). The Wrong Kind of Mistake: A Problem for Robust Sentimentalism about Moral Judgment. Journal of Value Inquiry, 48(2), 247-269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-014-9421-5
Sauer, H. (2014). It’s the Knobe Effect, Stupid! How (and How Not) to Explain the Side-Effect Effect. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 5(4), 485-503. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-014-0189-0
2013
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H., & Bates, T. (2013). Chairmen, Cocaine, and Car Crashes: The Knobe Effect as an Attribution Error. Journal of Religious Ethics, 17(4), 305-330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-013-9150-1
2012
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H. (2012). Educated intuitions. Automaticity and rationality in moral judgement. Philosophical Explorations, 15(3), 255-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2012.706822
Sauer, H. (2012). Morally irrelevant factors: What's left of the dual process-model of moral cognition? Philosophical Psychology, 25(6), 783-811. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2011.631997
Sauer, H. (2012). Psychopaths and Filthy Desks: Are Emotions Necessary and Sufficient for Moral Judgment? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15(1), 95-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-011-9274-y
2011
Scholarly publications
Sauer, H. C. (2011). Social Intuitionism and the Psychology of Moral Reasoning. Philosophy Compass.
Sauer, H. C. (2011). The Appropriateness of Emotions. Moral Judgment, Moral Emotions, and the Conflation Problem. Ethical Perspectives, 18(1).