Moral Psychology, Volume 1: The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0262693542 ISBN 13: 9780262693547

Casa editrice: MIT Press, 2007

Riassunto

Philosophers and psychologists discuss new collaborative work in moral philosophy that draws on evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

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 volumes bring together some of the most innovative work by both philosophers and psychologists in this emerging interdisciplinary field. The contributors to volume 1 discuss recent work on the evolution of moral beliefs, attitudes, and emotions. Each chapter includes an essay, comments on the essay by other scholars, and a reply by the author(s) of the original essay. Topics include a version of naturalism that avoids supposed fallacies, distinct neurocomputational systems for deontic reasoning, the evolutionary psychology of moral sentiments regarding incest, the sexual selection of moral virtues, the evolution of symbolic thought, and arguments both for and against innate morality. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate the value for both philosophy and psychology of collaborative efforts to understand the many complex aspects of morality.

Contributors
William Casebeer, Leda Cosmides, Oliver Curry, Michael Dietrich, Catherine Driscoll, Susan Dwyer, Owen Flanagan, Jerry Fodor, Gilbert Harman, Richard Joyce, Debra Lieberman, Ron Mallon, John Mikhail, Geoffrey Miller, Jesse Prinz, Peter Railton, Michael Ruse, Hagop Sarkissian, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chandra Sekhar Sripada, Valerie Tiberius, John Tooby, Peter Tse, Kathleen Wallace, Arthur Wolf, David Wong

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Brigid Doherty teaches the history of modern andcontemporary art, literature, and film in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Art and Archaeology, at Princeton University. Her book Montage: The Body and the Work of Art in Dada, Brecht, and Benjamin will be published by the University of California Press in 2004, and she is currently working on a second book project, Writing as Making Present: The Art of Hanne Darboven, 1966--2000.

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• Editore: MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0262693542
• ISBN 13: 9780262693547
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 606
• Redattore: Sinnott-Armstrong Walter, Miller Christian B.