Conscious Reasoning or Quick Intuition?

This essay raises some methodological objections towards the theories of judgment and action in Haidt and Wegner, challenging the validity of their claim that the experience of free will is deceptive and results from the operation of an unconscious and automatic mechanism of judgment. The main thrust of the argument is that the mechanism used to explain moral judgment as well as the experience of free will is impossible to falsify and untestable. A brief comparison with the argument for the direct relationship between moral choice and free will in Kant aims to show that the mentioned psychological accounts have ignored the normative nature of moral decision making at their own expense, and explain too much only by overlooking the distinct experience of judging.