Moral Psychology, Volume 3 The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development

by Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780262693554
• ISBN10: 0262693550
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-19
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. This collaborative trend is especially strong in moral philosophy, and these three volumes bring together some of the most innovative work by both philosophers and psychologists in this emerging interdisciplinary field.

Author Biography

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Philosophy Department and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He edited the previous volumes in Moral Psychology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral Emotions	p. 1
Processes and Moral Emotions	p. 19
Morality, Inhibition, and Propositional Content	p. 25
Response to Casebeer and Hynes	p. 31
The Secret Joke of Kant's Soul	p. 35
Moral Cognition and Computational Theory	p. 81
Toward a Sentimentalist Deontology	p. 93
Reply to Mikhail and Timmons	p. 105
Without Morals	p. 119
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Criminal Psychopaths
The Antisocials Amid Us	p. 151
Impaired Moral Reasoning in Psychopaths?	p. 159
Response to Kent Kiehl
A Reply to de Oliveira-Souza, Ignacio and Moll, and Schaich Borg	p. 165
Internalism and the Evidence from Psychopaths and "Acquired Sociopaths"	p. 173
Internalism and the Evidence from Pathology	p. 191
The Truth about Internalism	p. 207
Could There Be an Empirical Test for Internalism?	p. 217
Varieties of Moral Agency	p. 227
Lessons from Autism (and Psychopathy)
Reasons, Reverence, and Value	p. 259
The Will to Conform	p. 265
Autism, Morality, and Empathy	p. 273
The Makings of a Moral Sensibility	p. 281
Replies to Commentaries
Morality and Its Development	p. 297
Morality, Culture, and the Brain	p. 313
What Changes and What Stays the Same
The Fabric of Our Moral Lives	p. 317
A Comment on Kagan
Reply to Fox and Killen and Whalen	p. 321
Adolescent Moral Reasoning	p. 323
The Integration of Emotion and Cognition
Integrative Mechanisms and Implicit Moral Reasoning in Adolescence	p. 343
Can Baird's View of Adolescent Morality Inform Adolescent Criminal Justice Policy?	p. 351
Reply to Sifferd and Lapsley	p. 361
What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Contribute to Metaethics	p. 371
Moral Rationalism and Empirical Immunity	p. 395
Hedonic Reasons as Ultimately Justifying and the Relevance of Neuroscience	p. 409
Response to Nichols and Katz	p. 419
References	p. 427
Contributors	p. 483
Index to Volume 1	p. 485
Index to Volume 2	p. 513
Index to Volume 3	p. 543
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