Moral Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781108706438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 75 str.

Christian B. Miller

Opis

This Element provides an overview of some of the central issues in contemporary moral psychology. It explores what moral psychology is, whether we are always motivated by self-interest, what good character looks like and whether anyone has it, whether moral judgments always motivate us to act, whether what motivates action is always a desire of some kind, and what the role is of reasoning and deliberation in moral judgment and action. This Element is aimed at a general audience including undergraduate students without an extensive background in philosophy.

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Introduction to Moral Psychology; 2. Do We Ultimately Care Only about Ourselves? Egoism and the Alternatives; 3. Good Character: What Is It, and Does It Even Exist?; 4. Moral Judgment and Motivation: Motivational Internalism and Impossibilities of Our Wills; 5. What Motivates Us? Humean and Anti-Humean Theories of Motivation; 6. Conscious Moral Reasoning and Our Feelings: Three Views about the Psychology of Moral Judgments.