Moral Psychology

Valerie Tiberius is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota

Preface

Part One: Moral Psychology and Moral Philosophy






What Is Moral Psychology?






What is moral psychology?



Distinguishing the questions



Distinguishing psychological states



Structure and aims of the book:

What Are Philosophers Doing Here?





Moral Agents or Blobs of Flesh



Moral Realism and the Challenge from Evolution



Responses to the Challenge



Moral Psychology and Moral Philosophy

Part Two: Motivation and Moral Motivation: The Basics

Moral Motivation: what it is and what it isn’t





Moral Theories and Moral Motivation



The Challenge of Psychological Egoism



Psychological Egoism and Empirical Research



Taking Stock

Desires and Reasons





Some Background Distinctions



Reasons internalism and externalism



The Humean Theory of Motivation



Taking Stock

Part Three: Moral Motivation

Emotion & Moral Judgment





What is an emotion?



Emotions and Moral Judgment



Amoralists, Psychopaths and the Debate Between Moral Judgment Internalism and Externalism



Taking Stock

Sentimentalism and Rationalism:





Rationalism and Sophisticated Sentimentalism



The Kantian Challenge to Sophisticated Sentimentalism



The Empirical Threat to Rationalism



Taking Stock

Virtue





What kind of state is a virtue?



Are there any virtues?: The empirical challenge



Defending Virtue



Taking Stock

Part Four: Agency and Moral Responsibility

The Psychology of the Responsible Agent





Methodology



Real Self Theories



Normative Competence



Are we Competent?: Challenges from Psychology

Moral Responsibility, Free Will and Determinism





Free Will and Determinism



Intuitions and Experimental Philosophy



Libertarianism and the Challenge from Neuroscience



Can I Be Excused?

Part Five: Three Big Questions

Should I be moral?: Well-being and the good life





Prudential Reasons and ‘Good For’



Theories of Well-Being



Psychological Evidence for the Well-being – Morality Link



Conclusion

How do we know what is morally right?: Moral psychology and moral knowledge





The Attack on Intuitions: Biases and Trolley-ology



Intuitions, Intuitionism and Reflective Equilibrium

Can you get an ought from an is?





Is and Ought: A Complex Relationship



Reducing Ought to Is

Final Thoughts