Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy (eBook)

Bongrae Seok is associate professor of philosophy in Alvernia University (Reading, Pennsylvania). He received his BA in Seoul National University (South Korea) and MA and PhD from University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) where he studied philosophy and cognitive science. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the neural systems, memory, and aging program at the University of Arizona for research projects on the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. He published several books and articles on decision theory, cognitive modularity, moral nativism (such as Mencius and Reid), moral reasoning (such as perception of change and probability, attribution patterns), moral emotion (such as Confucian shame) in Chinese philosophy and Confucian moral psychology. He has been working on several projects that relate Confucian philosophy to contemporary discussions of emotion, social cognition, intuition, moral reasoning, and character traits in psychology and cognitive science. His recent project includes an interpretation of Confucian moral psychology from the perspective of affective intuition, other regarding emotions, and embodied categorization patterns in taxonomic reasoning.

PrefaceList of Figures and TablesPart I: Embodied Cognition and Confucian PhilosophyChapter 1: What is Embodied Cognition and why is it an exciting way to understand the mind?Chapter 2: Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Human HeartPart II: Aspects of Embodied Confucian Moral PsychologyChapter 3: Moral Psychology of Confucian PhilosophyChapter 4: Qing, the Embodied EmotionChapter 5: Character or Solution? Situated Confucian VirtueGlossary of Key TermsConfucian PhilosophersBibliographySubject IndexAuthor IndexAbout the Author