The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology

by Vargas, Manuel; Doris, John

• ISBN13: 9780198871712
• ISBN10: 0198871716
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-06-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Moral psychology is the study of how human minds make and are made by human morality. This state-of-the-art volume covers contemporary philosophical and psychological work on moral psychology, as well as notable historical theories and figures in the field of moral psychology, such as Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, and the Buddha. The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology's fifty chapters, authored by leading figures in the field, cover foundational topics, such as character, virtue, emotion, moral responsibility, the neuroscience of morality, weakness of will, and the nature of moral judgments and reasons. The volume also canvases emerging work in applied moral psychology, including adaptive preferences, animals, mental illness, poverty, marriage, race, bias, and victim blaming. Collectively, the essays form the definitive survey of contemporary moral psychology.

Author Biography

Manuel Vargas, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego,John Doris, Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life, Cornell University

John M. Doris is Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life at Cornell University. He has published widely in both scientific and philosophical journals, and been awarded fellowships from Michigan's Institute for the Humanities; Princeton's University Center for Human Values; the
National Humanities Center; the American Council of Learned Societies; the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; the National Endowment for the Humanities. He authored Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (Cambridge, 2002) and Talking to Our Selves: Reflection,
Ignorance, and Agency (Oxford, 2015), and with his colleagues in the Moral Psychology Research Group wrote and edited The Moral Psychology Handbook (Oxford, 2010).

Manuel Vargas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Building Better Beings: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (OUP) and a co-author of Four Views on Free Will (Wiley-Blackwell). He writes about agency, ethics, and the history of Latin American
philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction
I. History
Karma, Moral Responsibility, and Buddhist Ethics, Bronwyn Finnigan
2. Plato: Moral Psychology, Rachana Kamtekar
3. The Virtuous Spiral: Aristotle's Theory of Habituation, Agnes Callard
4. Reason as Servant of the Will: Some Critics of Aquinas, Terence Irwin
5. Moral Sentiments in Hume and Adam Smith, Rachel Cohon
6. From a priori respect to human frailty: optimism and pessimism in Kant's moral psychology, Lucy Allais
7. Nietzsche's Naturalistic Moral Psychology: Anti-Realism, Sentimentalism, Hard Incompatibilism, Brian Leiter
II. Foundations
8. Judgment Internalism, Samuel Asarnow and David Taylor
9. Virtue, Lorraine Besser
10. The Nature and Significance of Blame, David Brink and Dana Kay Nelkin
11. Punishment as Communication, Fiery Cushman, Arunima Sarin, and Mark Ho
12. The Moral Psychology of Respect, Stephen Darwall
13. Emotion Kinds, Motivation and Irrational Explanation, Justin D'Arms
14. Moral Expertise, Julia Driver
15. Redirecting Rawlsian Reasoning Toward the Greater Good, Joshua Greene, Karen Huang, and Max Bazerman
16. Self-Deception and the Moral Self, Richard Holton
17. Two Ways to Adopt a Norm: The (Moral?) Psychology of Internalization and Avowal, Dan Kelly
18. Morality and Possibility, Joshua Knobe
19. Social Construction, Revelation, and Moral Psychology, Ron Mallon
20. Weakness of Will, Al Mele
21. Moral Nativism, John Mikhail
22. Animal Moral Psychologies, Susana Monso and Kristin Andrews
23. Moral Learning and Moral Representations, Shaun Nichols
24. Methods, Models, and the Evolution of Moral Psychology, Cailin O'Connor
25. The Moral Psychology of Humor, Lauren Olin
26. The Limits of Neuroscience for Ethics, Adina Roskies
27. The Moral Psychology of Moral Responsibility, Fernando Rudy
28. Personal Identity, David Shoemaker and Kevin Tobia
29. Some Potential Philosophical Lessons of Implicit Moral Attitudes, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Daryl Cameron
30. The Nature of Reasons for Action and their Psychological Implications, Michael Smith
31. Prudential Psychology: Theory, Method, and Measurement, Valerie Tiberius & Dan Haybron
32. Situationism, Moral Improvement, and Moral Responsibility, Maria Waggoner, John Doris, and Manuel Vargas
III. Applications
33. Negligence: its Moral Significance, Santiago Amaya
34. Sex By Deception, Berit Brogaard
35. The moral psychology of blame: A feminist analysis, Mich Ciurria
36. Are Desires Interdependent, Fiery Cushman and L. A. Paul
37. Mens Rea in Moral Judgment and Criminal Law, Carly Giffin and Tania Lombrozo
38. Variations in Moral Concerns Across Political Ideology: Moral Foundations, Hidden Tribes, and Righteous Division, Jesse Graham and Daniel A. Yudkin
39. Adapative Preferences and the Moral Psychology of Oppression, Serene Khader
40. Marriage, Monogamy, and Moral Psychology, Stephen Macedo
41. Empathy and Moral Understanding in Psychopathy, Heidi Maibom
42. Moral Character, Liberal States, and Civic Education, Emily McTernan
43. A Moral Psychology of Poverty?, Jennifer Morton
44. Agency in Mental Illness and Disability, Dominic Murphy and Natalia Washington
45. The Moral Psychology of Victimization, Laura Niemi and Liane Young
46. Forgiveness and Moral Repair, Kathryn J. Norlock
47. Accountability and Implicit Bias: A Study in Skepticism about Responsibility, Gideon Rosen
48. Loss of Control in Addiction: The Search for an Adequate Theory and the Case for Intellectual Humility, Chandra Sripada
49. Love and the Anatomy of Needing Another, Monique Wonderly
50. Race and Moral Psychology, Robin Zheng