Moral psychology and human agency : philosophical essays on the science of ethics
D'Arms
Jacobson, DanielContributor
Jacobson, DanielEditor
D'Arms, JustinContributor
D'Arms, JustinEditor
Kahane, GuyContributor
Efforts to make moral psychology a thoroughly empirical discipline have divided philosophers along methodological fault lines, isolating discussions that will profit more from intellectual exchange. This volume takes an even-handed approach, including essays from advocates of empirical ethics as well as those who are sceptical of some of its central claims.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Efforts to make moral psychology a thoroughly empirical discipline have divided philosophers along methodological fault lines, isolating discussions that will profit more from intellectual exchange. This volume takes an even-handed approach, including essays from advocates of empirical ethics as well as those who are sceptical of some of its central claims.
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Intuitive and counterintuitive morality / Guy Kahane -- Moral psychology as accountability / Brendan Dill and Stephen Darwall -- Remnants of character / David Shoemaker -- Knowing what we are doing / Heidi Maibom -- Meta-cognition, mind-reading, and Humean moral agency / Julia Driver -- The episodic sense of self / Shaun Nichols -- The motivational theory of emotions / Andrea Scarantino -- The reward theory of desire in moral psychology / Timothy Schroeder and Nomy Arpaly -- Does evolutionary psychology show that normativity is mind-dependent? / Selim Berker -- Sentimentalism and scientism / Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson.
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