Amoralists, as described by Shafer-Landau and Railton, can sincerely assent to moral propositions while lacking corresponding motivation, demonstrating that judgment and motivation are conceptually separable.
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The desires, goals, or reasons that drive someone to act in a particular way.
Railton(as a philosopher who developed a key theory in 1984)
Peter Railton is a contemporary American philosopher who developed an influential version of consequentialism that tries to address criticisms of the theory.
Shafer-Landau(as a philosopher referenced in ethics)
Russ Shafer-Landau is a contemporary philosophy professor who writes about morality and argues that moral truths exist independently of what anyone believes.
judgment(Russell and Ramsey's multiple-relation theory of judgment)
A multiple relation of the mind or mental factors to many objects — the constituents of the proposition judged — rather than a single relation to a single propositional object