Moral Psychology : A Contemporary Introduction (Paperback)

Preface

1. What Is Moral Psychology?

• What is moral psychology?
• Distinguishing the questions
• Distinguishing psychological states
• Structure and aims of the book:

2. What Are Philosophers Doing Here?

• Moral Agents or Blobs of Flesh
• Moral Realism and the Challenge from Evolution
• Responses to the Challenge
• Moral Psychology and Moral Philosophy

Part Two: Motivation and Moral Motivation: The Basics

3. Moral Motivation: what it is and what it isn’t

• Moral Theories and Moral Motivation
• The Challenge of Psychological Egoism
• Psychological Egoism and Empirical Research
• Taking Stock

4. Desires and Reasons

• Some Background Distinctions
• Reasons internalism and externalism
• The Humean Theory of Motivation
• Taking Stock

Part Three: Moral Motivation

5. Emotion & Moral Judgment

• What is an emotion?
• Emotions and Moral Judgment
• Amoralists, Psychopaths and the Debate Between Moral Judgment Internalism and Externalism
• Taking Stock

6. Sentimentalism and Rationalism:

• Rationalism and Sophisticated Sentimentalism
• The Kantian Challenge to Sophisticated Sentimentalism
• The Empirical Threat to Rationalism
• Taking Stock

7. Virtue

• What kind of state is a virtue?
• Are there any virtues?: The empirical challenge
• Defending Virtue
• Taking Stock

Part Four: Agency and Moral Responsibility

8. The Psychology of the Responsible Agent

• Methodology
• Real Self Theories
• Normative Competence
• Are we Competent?: Challenges from Psychology

9. Moral Responsibility, Free Will and Determinism

• Free Will and Determinism
• Intuitions and Experimental Philosophy
• Libertarianism and the Challenge from Neuroscience
• Can I Be Excused?

Part Five: Three Big Questions


10. Should I be moral?: Well-being and the good life

• Prudential Reasons and ‘Good For’
• Theories of Well-Being
• Psychological Evidence for the Well-being ? Morality Link
• Conclusion

11. How do we know what is morally right?: Moral psychology and moral knowledge

• The Attack on Intuitions: Biases and Trolley-ology
• Intuitions, Intuitionism and Reflective Equilibrium

12. Can you get an ought from an is?

• Is and Ought: A Complex Relationship
• Reducing Ought to Is

13. Final Thoughts