Moral Psychology at the Crossroads Daniel K. Lapsley Darcia
... Yet it is also true that the authority of Kohlberg’s work has diminished significantly in the last decade. This can be explained, in part, by the general decline of Piaget’s theory in contemporary developmental research. Indeed, the general influence of Kohlberg’s theory has always been inextricably ...
... Yet it is also true that the authority of Kohlberg’s work has diminished significantly in the last decade. This can be explained, in part, by the general decline of Piaget’s theory in contemporary developmental research. Indeed, the general influence of Kohlberg’s theory has always been inextricably ...
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... with increasing knowledge of what doing good means, and what are good actions in particular situations (Hauskeller 2016). There is no clear distinction between cognitive and moral enhancement. Insofar as improved cognitive abilities such as concentration and clear thinking affect one’s ability to en ...
... with increasing knowledge of what doing good means, and what are good actions in particular situations (Hauskeller 2016). There is no clear distinction between cognitive and moral enhancement. Insofar as improved cognitive abilities such as concentration and clear thinking affect one’s ability to en ...
What`s So Queer About Morality? One of the currently available
... exist, they would be unlike anything else in the world. Therefore, one has at least prima facie justification for omitting them from one’s ontology. One issue that presents itself here is how one is to understand what Mackie has in mind by ‘prescriptivity’. If we interpret prescriptivity here as jus ...
... exist, they would be unlike anything else in the world. Therefore, one has at least prima facie justification for omitting them from one’s ontology. One issue that presents itself here is how one is to understand what Mackie has in mind by ‘prescriptivity’. If we interpret prescriptivity here as jus ...
A Semantic Paradox concerning Error Theory
... immediately that v(¬OW(m))=F. The converse is true as well; additionally, v(¬OW(m))=T entails that v(OW(m))=F. .So I hold we can conclude reasonably that ¬P1.5 is also making a moral predication. We now turn to the more interesting case of ¬P1.4. In this case, we have the negation being applied onto ...
... immediately that v(¬OW(m))=F. The converse is true as well; additionally, v(¬OW(m))=T entails that v(OW(m))=F. .So I hold we can conclude reasonably that ¬P1.5 is also making a moral predication. We now turn to the more interesting case of ¬P1.4. In this case, we have the negation being applied onto ...
The evolutionary debunking of morality
... moral faculty. (Analogy: A linguistic faculty may be a human adaptation, but which language one ends up speaking depends on which language one is exposed to as a child.) Moral nativism does not imply that the capacity to make moral judgments will develop irrespective of environmental conditions, nor ...
... moral faculty. (Analogy: A linguistic faculty may be a human adaptation, but which language one ends up speaking depends on which language one is exposed to as a child.) Moral nativism does not imply that the capacity to make moral judgments will develop irrespective of environmental conditions, nor ...
Street`s Evolutionary Debunking Argument: Nuancing A Moral
... I begin without the assumption that there are moral truths simply because this is not an argument, like Street’s, for the existence or non-existence of independent moral truths. And what is more, I can safely assume that moral truths have to do with the ends of moral individuals simply because this ...
... I begin without the assumption that there are moral truths simply because this is not an argument, like Street’s, for the existence or non-existence of independent moral truths. And what is more, I can safely assume that moral truths have to do with the ends of moral individuals simply because this ...
From The Heritage of Logical Positivism,
... (specifically, of psychology), it is nonetheless a very important branch: ...if we decide that the fundamental question of ethics, "Why does man act morally?" can be answered only by psychology, we see in this no degradation of, nor injury to, [moral] science, but a happy simplification of the world ...
... (specifically, of psychology), it is nonetheless a very important branch: ...if we decide that the fundamental question of ethics, "Why does man act morally?" can be answered only by psychology, we see in this no degradation of, nor injury to, [moral] science, but a happy simplification of the world ...
Two Dogmas of Moral Theory? Comments on Lisa Tessman`s Moral
... important fact that we can fail morally even if we do what we ought to do. I do not disagree that it is important to recognize that there are situations where no matter what we do we may still do harm, even when the action we have chosen to do is the least harmful, or violates a value that is a less ...
... important fact that we can fail morally even if we do what we ought to do. I do not disagree that it is important to recognize that there are situations where no matter what we do we may still do harm, even when the action we have chosen to do is the least harmful, or violates a value that is a less ...
The origins of moral judgment - Victoria University of Wellington
... highly contested idea even among those who are supposed to be experts on the topic—namely, metaethicists. In order to approach this problem, let us pause to compare chimpanzee sociality with human sociality. De Waal has often claimed that chimpanzee life contains some of the “building blocks” of mor ...
... highly contested idea even among those who are supposed to be experts on the topic—namely, metaethicists. In order to approach this problem, let us pause to compare chimpanzee sociality with human sociality. De Waal has often claimed that chimpanzee life contains some of the “building blocks” of mor ...
"Nihilism" encyclopedia entry - Victoria University of Wellington
... “Nihilism” (from the Latin “nihil” meaning nothing) is not a well-defined term. One can be a nihilist about just about anything: A philosopher who does not believe in the existence of knowledge, for example, might be called an “epistemological nihilist”; an atheist might be called a “religious nihil ...
... “Nihilism” (from the Latin “nihil” meaning nothing) is not a well-defined term. One can be a nihilist about just about anything: A philosopher who does not believe in the existence of knowledge, for example, might be called an “epistemological nihilist”; an atheist might be called a “religious nihil ...
Moral Reasoning - University of Idaho
... manners...pertaining to character or disposition, considered as good or bad, virtuous or vicious. Or, to the distinction between right and wrong in relation to actions, volitions, or character of ...
... manners...pertaining to character or disposition, considered as good or bad, virtuous or vicious. Or, to the distinction between right and wrong in relation to actions, volitions, or character of ...
1150207 - Extras Springer
... external factors such as people or society. It is the moral agent’s inner recognition of moral principles. It is a kind of self-restraint, self-supervision, self-control, and self-management. In short, moral subjects perform moral behavior by their own moral standard, independent of external forces. ...
... external factors such as people or society. It is the moral agent’s inner recognition of moral principles. It is a kind of self-restraint, self-supervision, self-control, and self-management. In short, moral subjects perform moral behavior by their own moral standard, independent of external forces. ...
Reductionism in Ethics (for IEE, second submission)
... Many philosophers have been persuaded that naturalistic definitions of the moral do leave something out, and so that analytic reductionism is untenable. But some such philosophers have endorsed in its place not some form of non-naturalism (with Moore), non-cognitivism (with Hare), or nihilism, but o ...
... Many philosophers have been persuaded that naturalistic definitions of the moral do leave something out, and so that analytic reductionism is untenable. But some such philosophers have endorsed in its place not some form of non-naturalism (with Moore), non-cognitivism (with Hare), or nihilism, but o ...
Lecture 3 PPT
... the brain systems associated with abstract reasoning and cognitive control can, at least sometimes, bring these implicit biases and other sorts of emotions into consciousness in order to modify or override them however: it is equally clear that conscious self-control is an extremely limited resour ...
... the brain systems associated with abstract reasoning and cognitive control can, at least sometimes, bring these implicit biases and other sorts of emotions into consciousness in order to modify or override them however: it is equally clear that conscious self-control is an extremely limited resour ...
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... Given that legal and moral justifications are related, but distinct, the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 could, after the fact, be deemed illegal but could also be deemed moral or even obligatory on different grounds One reason the U.N. was established after WWII was to keep despots like Hitler and St ...
... Given that legal and moral justifications are related, but distinct, the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 could, after the fact, be deemed illegal but could also be deemed moral or even obligatory on different grounds One reason the U.N. was established after WWII was to keep despots like Hitler and St ...
haidt.bjorklund.2008.. - Faculty Web Sites at the University of Virginia
... processes of moral judgment, not moral decision making, because in our opinion those two processes are not closely related, functionally speaking. It may be parsimonious to suppose that there exists a single moral faculty that handles both moral judgment and moral action, and that plays a large role ...
... processes of moral judgment, not moral decision making, because in our opinion those two processes are not closely related, functionally speaking. It may be parsimonious to suppose that there exists a single moral faculty that handles both moral judgment and moral action, and that plays a large role ...
A2 Philosophy – Revision Book
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boss1_ppt_ch_09
... Psychologist Carol Gilligan argued that women’s moral development proceeds differently from men. Men, she said, tend to be duty- and principle-oriented, an approach she called the “justice perspective.” Women, in contrast, are more context-oriented and view the world in terms of relationships and ca ...
... Psychologist Carol Gilligan argued that women’s moral development proceeds differently from men. Men, she said, tend to be duty- and principle-oriented, an approach she called the “justice perspective.” Women, in contrast, are more context-oriented and view the world in terms of relationships and ca ...
moral development and speeding
... level occurs when the individual becomes able to notice that some laws are morally wrong and seek to change them, transcending this way, the level that many authors appoint as the final point of moral development, which is the internalization of the societal norms and values (BIAGGIO, 1997). Moral r ...
... level occurs when the individual becomes able to notice that some laws are morally wrong and seek to change them, transcending this way, the level that many authors appoint as the final point of moral development, which is the internalization of the societal norms and values (BIAGGIO, 1997). Moral r ...
References - University of Leeds
... precondition of the ability to construct and analyse moral problems and arrive at moral judgments—that is, of the exercise of the faculty of moral judgement. Barbara Herman (1985) has suggested that it does. She argues that the ability to construct moral problems presupposes the mastery of certain m ...
... precondition of the ability to construct and analyse moral problems and arrive at moral judgments—that is, of the exercise of the faculty of moral judgement. Barbara Herman (1985) has suggested that it does. She argues that the ability to construct moral problems presupposes the mastery of certain m ...
Moral development: Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol
... tended to be used in moral education since at least the Scholastic period in the Western tradition. Still largely in favor in postsecondary professional and applied ethics education, this approach is tutor led and principle focused. The instructor presents learners with a moral problem like the Hein ...
... tended to be used in moral education since at least the Scholastic period in the Western tradition. Still largely in favor in postsecondary professional and applied ethics education, this approach is tutor led and principle focused. The instructor presents learners with a moral problem like the Hein ...
MORAL POINT OF VIEW THEORIES Moral Point of View Theories
... They are not moralities that are taking the MPV characterized as encompassing all and only liberal societies. However, as Rawls’s theory, as Amartya Sen has argued, pays a price for such a restriction, similarly MPVTs would pay a price as well (Sen 1992, pp. 75–79). But it would, as such a restricti ...
... They are not moralities that are taking the MPV characterized as encompassing all and only liberal societies. However, as Rawls’s theory, as Amartya Sen has argued, pays a price for such a restriction, similarly MPVTs would pay a price as well (Sen 1992, pp. 75–79). But it would, as such a restricti ...
Moral Argumentation from a Rhetorical Point of View
... Practical thinking is a tricky business. Its aim will never be fulfilled unless influence on practical attitudes is gained. These attitudes, though, are no neat propositional structures, as is sometimes suggested. Whether or not a living human being is willing to act in a certain way is determined b ...
... Practical thinking is a tricky business. Its aim will never be fulfilled unless influence on practical attitudes is gained. These attitudes, though, are no neat propositional structures, as is sometimes suggested. Whether or not a living human being is willing to act in a certain way is determined b ...
Topic 1: introduction to Ethics
... is it investigates the kind of moral standards we should arrive at and rules that would allow us to regulate right and wrong conduct. At the beginning of the 20th century, philosophers started to question normative ethics and to some extent saw moral standards as culturally determined. instead of as ...
... is it investigates the kind of moral standards we should arrive at and rules that would allow us to regulate right and wrong conduct. At the beginning of the 20th century, philosophers started to question normative ethics and to some extent saw moral standards as culturally determined. instead of as ...