An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation

ISBN-13: 9781137490216 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 235 str.

J. Jeffrey Tillman

Opis

An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation maintains that current models of moral deliberation do not effectively deal with contemporary moral complexity because they are based on an inadequate theory of moral cognition. Drawing on research in neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, social theory, and dual process cognitive theory and on the work of William James, this book develops a theory of moral cognition which provides a major role for aesthetic sensibilities and upon this theory develops a robust model of moral deliberation. This model portrays moral deliberation as a back and forth movement between intuitive and analytic cognitions, which constructs narrative scenarios and then assesses and revises them according to aesthetic sensibilities.

Spis treści

1—The Problems of Contemporary Moral Deliberation

            Five Styles of Moral Deliberation

An Inadequate Model of Human Cognition

2-Human Embodiment and Moral Deliberation

            Stumbling Over Embodiment

            Evolutionary Theory and Humanity

            Brain Structure and Brain Function

            Neurotransmitters--Rewards And Aversions

            Emotion

            Non-Conscious Cognition

            Fundamental Routines of Survival

            Embodiment and Ethics

3-Human Sociability and Moral Deliberation

The Ability to be Social

The Dynamics of Human Socialization

Evolution and Social Groups

Social Deliberation about Ethics

4-Dual Process Theories and Moral Deliberation

            History of Decision Making Theory

            Dual Process Theories of Cognition

Dual Process Theory and Moral Decision Making

The Problems of Current Dual Process Moral Theory

5-Type 2 Moral Cognition

Deductive Reasoning

Analysis

Induction

Coherence-Based Reasoning

Assessment of Type 2 Moral Reasoning

6-Type 1 Moral Cognition

            Characterization of Type 1 Processing             William James and Type 1 Cognition             A Jamesian Model of Moral Cognition            Aesthetic Moral Cognition7-Narrative And Moral Deliberation

            Type 2 Processes and Narrative Interpretation

            Type 2 Narrative and Applied Ethics

            Type 1 Narrative Construction and Interpretation

            Type 1 Moral Deliberation Using Narratives

8-- Dual Processes Interacting in Moral Deliberation

            Reflective Equilibrium

            Perceptual Equilibrium

            William James, Conceptual Translation, and the Mediating Attitude

            A Dual Process Model of Moral Deliberation

            An Abbreviated Illustration of the Model            The Importance of Aesthetic Sensibilities9-ConclusionEndnotesSelected Bibliography

Index

O autorze

J. Jeffrey Tillman is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of Graduate Studies at the Wichita Falls Campus of Wayland Baptist University, Texas, US

Blurb

An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation suggests that the inadequacy of models of moral deliberation to deal effectively with contemporary moral complexity is a result of the lack of an inadequate theory of moral cognition. Drawing from work in neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, social theory, dual process cognitive theory, and the work of William James, this book develops a theory of moral cognition to be used as the basis for a model of moral deliberation. This model portrays moral deliberation as a back and forth movement between intuitive and analytic cognitions, by which narrative scenarios are constructed and then assessed by aesthetic sensibilities.