We describe moral cognition as a process occurring in a distinctive cognitive space, wherein moral relationships are defined along several morally relevant dimensions. After identifying candidate dimensions, we show how moral judgments can emerge in this space directly from object perception, without any appeal to moral rules or abstract values. Our reductive “minimal model” (Batterman & Rice, 2014) elaborates Beal’s (2020) claim that moral cognition is determined, at the most basic level, by “ontological frames” defining subjects, objects, and the proper relation between them. We expand this claim into a set of formal hypotheses that predict moral judgments based on how objects are “framed” in the relevant dimensions of “moral space.”

我们将道德认知描述为发生在独特认知空间中的过程，其中道德关系是根据几个与道德相关的维度来定义的。在确定候选维度后，我们展示了道德判断如何直接从对象感知中出现，而无需诉诸道德规则或抽象价值。我们的还原“最小模型”（Batterman & Rice，2014）详细阐述了 Beal（2020）的主张，即道德认知在最基本的层面上是由定义主体、客体以及它们之间适当关系的“本体论框架”决定的。我们将这一主张扩展为一组正式的假设，这些假设基于对象如何在“道德空间”的相关维度中被“框定”来预测道德判断。