The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (Oxford Handbooks)

Moral psychology is the study of how human minds make and are made by human morality. This state-of-the-art volume covers contemporary philosophical and psychological work on moral psychology, as well as notable historical theories and figures in the field of moral psychology, such as Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, and the Buddha. The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology 's fifty chapters, authored by leading figures in the field, cover foundational topics, such as character, virtue, emotion, moral responsibility, the neuroscience of morality, weakness of will, and the nature of moral judgments and reasons. The volume also canvases emerging work in applied moral psychology, including adaptive preferences, animals, mental illness, poverty, marriage, race, bias, and victim blaming. Collectively, the essays form the definitive survey of contemporary moral psychology. Acknowledgements 6 Contents 8 List of Figures and Tables 12 List of Contributors 14 Introduction 18 PART I. HISTORY 22 1. Karma, Moral Responsibility, and Buddhist Ethics • Bronwyn Finnigan 24 2. Motivation, Desire for Good, and Design in Plato’s Moral Psychology • Rachana Kamtekar 41 3. The Virtuous Spiral: Aristotle’s Theory of Habituation • Agnes Callard 59 4. Reason as Servant of the Will: Some Critics of Aquinas • Terence Irwin 79 5. Moral Sentiments in Hume and Adam Smith • Rachel Cohon 100 6. From A Priori Respect to Human Frailty: Optimism and Pessimism in Kant’s Moral Psychology • Lucy Allais 122 7. Nietzsche’s Naturalistic Moral Psychology: Anti-Realism, Sentimentalism, Hard Incompatibilism • Brian Leiter 138 PART II. FOUNDATIONS 154 8. Judgment Internalism • Samuel Asarnow and David E. Taylor 156 9. Virtue • Lorraine L. Besser 175 10. The Nature and Significance of Blame • David O. Brink and Dana Kay Nelkin 194 11. Punishment as Communication • Fiery Cushman, Arunima Sarin, and Mark Ho 214 12. The Moral Psychology of Respect • Stephen Darwall 227 13. Emotion Kinds, Motivation, and Irrational Explanation • Justin D’Arms 237 14. Moral Expertise • Julia L. Driver 254 15. Redirecting Rawlsian Reasoning Toward the Greater Good • Joshua D. Greene, Karen Huang, and Max Bazerman 263 16. Self-Deception and the Moral Self • Richard Holton 279 17. Two Ways to Adopt a Norm: The (Moral?) Psychology of Internalization and Avowal • Daniel Kelly 302 18. Morality and Possibility • Joshua Knobe 327 19. Social Construction, Revelation, and Moral Psychology • Ron Mallon 350 20. Weakness of Will • Alfred R. Mele 366 21. Moral Intuitions and Moral Nativism • John Mikhail 381 22. Animal Moral Psychologies • Susana Monsó and Kristin Andrews 405 23. Moral Learning and Moral Representations • Shaun Nichols 438 24. Methods, Models, and the Evolution of Moral Psychology • Cailin O’Connor 459 25. The Moral Psychology of Humour • Lauren Olin 482 26. The Limits of Neuroscience for Ethics • Adina L. Roskies 512 27. The Moral Psychology of Moral Responsibility • Fernando Rudy-Hiller 526 28. Personal Identity • David Shoemaker and Kevin Tobia 560 29. Some Potential Philosophical Lessons of Implicit Moral Attitudes • Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and C. Daryl Cameron 581 30. The Nature of Reasons for Action and Their Psychological Implications • Michael Smith 601 31. Prudential Psychology: Theory, Method, and Measurement • Valerie Tiberius and Daniel M. Haybron 617 32. Situationism, Moral Improvement, and Moral Responsibility • Maria Waggoner, John M. Doris, and Manuel Vargas 646 PART III. APPLICATIONS 676 33. Negligence: Its Moral Significance • Santiago Amaya 678 34. Sex by Deception • Berit Brogaard 700 35. The Moral Psychology of Blame: A Feminist Analysis • Mich Ciurria 729 36. Are Desires Interdependent? • Fiery Cushman and L. A. Paul 750 37. Mens Rea in Moral Judgment and Criminal Law • Carly Giffin and Tania Lombrozo 761 38. Variations in Moral Concerns across Political Ideology: Moral Foundations, Hidden Tribes, and Righteous Division • Jesse Graham and Daniel A. Yudkin 776 39. Adaptive Preferences and the Moral Psychology of Oppression • Serene J. Khader 796 40. Marriage, Monogamy, and Moral Psychology • Stephen Macedo 815 41. Empathy and Moral Understanding in Psychopathy • Heidi L. Maibom 855 42. Moral Character, Liberal States, and Civic Education • Emily McTernan 880 43. A Moral Psychology of Poverty? • Jennifer M. Morton 894 44. Agency in Mental Illness and Cognitive Disability • Dominic Murphy and Natalia Washington 910 45. The Moral Psychology of Victimization • Laura Niemi and Liane Young 928 46. Forgiveness and Moral Repair • Kathryn J. Norlock 946 47. Accountability and Implicit Bias: A Study in Scepticism about Responsibility • Gideon Rosen 964 48. Loss of Control in Addiction: The Search for an Adequate Theory and the Case for Intellectual Humility • Chandra Sripada 983 49. Love and the Anatomy of Needing Another • Monique Wonderly 1000 50. Race and Moral Psychology • Robin Zheng 1017 Index 1038 "Moral psychology is the study of how human minds make and are made by human morality. This state-of-the-art volume covers contemporary philosophical and psychological work on moral psychology, as well as notable historical theories and figures in the field of moral psychology, such as Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, and the Buddha. The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology's fifty chapters, authored by leading figures in the field, cover foundational topics, such as character, virtue, emotion, moral responsibility, the neuroscience of morality, weakness of will, and the nature of moral judgments and reasons. The volume also canvases emerging work in applied moral psychology, including adaptive preferences, animals, mental illness, poverty, marriage, race, bias, and victim blaming. Collectively, the essays form the definitive survey of contemporary moral psychology." -- Provided by publisher 'The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology' is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art overview of moral psychology. The 50 chapters, written by leading figures in both philosophy and psychology, cover many of the most important topics in the field and form the definitive survey of contemporary moral psychology