Christen, Markus
Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms
Part I. What Is Empirically Informed Ethics?
1. Outlining the Field – A Research Program for Empirically Informed Ethics
Markus Christen, Mark Alfano
2. What Kind of Ethics? – How Understanding the Field Affects the Role of Empirical Research on Morality for Ethics
Johannes Fischer
3. Moral Behavior and Moral Sentiments – On the Natural Basis for Moral Values
Adriano Naves Brito
Part II. Investigating Origins of Morality
4. Morality as a Biological Adaptation – An Evolutionary Model Based on the Lifestyle of Human Foragers
Carel Schaik, Judith M. Burkart, Adrian V. Jaeggi, Claudia Rudolf Rohr
5. Precursors of Morality – Evidence for Moral Behaviors in Non-human Primates
Sarah F. Brosnan
6. Where Do Morals Come From? – A Plea for a Cultural Approach
Jesse J. Prinz
Part III. Assessing the Moral Agent
7. Moral Intelligence – A Framework for Understanding Moral Competences
Carmen Tanner, Markus Christen
8. Moral Brains – Possibilities and Limits of the Neuroscience of Ethics
Kristin Prehn, Hauke R. Heekeren
9. Using Experiments in Ethics – Ethical Conservatism and the Psychology of Moral Luck
Shaun Nichols, Mark Timmons, Theresa Lopez
Part IV. Justifications Between Rational Reflections and Intuitions
10. Intuitions in Moral Reasoning – Normative Empirical Reflective Equilibrium as a Model for Substantial Justification of Moral Claims
Ghislaine J. M. W. Thiel, Johannes J. M. Delden
11. Moral Expertise – The Role of Expert Judgments and Expert Intuitions in the Construction of (Local) Ethical Theories
Bert Musschenga
12. Social Variability in Moral Judgments – Analyzing the Justification of Actions Using the Prescriptive Attribution Concept
Erich H. Witte, Tobias Gollan
Part V. Practicing Ethics in the Real World
13. Becoming a Moral Person – Moral Development and Moral Character Education as a Result of Social Interactions
Darcia Narvaez, Daniel Lapsley
14. Ethical Leadership – How to Integrate Empirical and Ethical Aspects for Promoting Moral Decision Making in Business Practice
Markus Huppenbauer, Carmen Tanner
15. The Empirical Turn in Bioethics – From Boundary Work to a Context-Sensitive, Transdisciplinary Field of Inquiry
Tanja Krones
Part VI. Critical Postscript
16. Ethics and Empirical Psychology – Critical Remarks to Empirically Informed Ethics
Antti Kauppinen
Keywords: Philosophy, Ethics, Biological Psychology, Philosophy of Biology, Community and Environmental Psychology
- Author(s)
- Christen, Markus
- Schaik, Carel van
- Fischer, Johannes
- Huppenbauer, Markus
- Tanner, Carmen
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2014
- Series
- Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
- Page amount
- 10 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319013695