An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation (eBook)

J. Jeffrey Tillman is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of Graduate Studies at the Wichita Falls Campus of Wayland Baptist University, Texas, US

1—The Problems of Contemporary Moral Deliberation            Five Styles of Moral DeliberationAn Inadequate Model of Human Cognition2-Human Embodiment and Moral Deliberation            Stumbling Over Embodiment            Evolutionary Theory and Humanity            Brain Structure and Brain Function             Neurotransmitters--Rewards And Aversions            Emotion            Non-Conscious Cognition            Fundamental Routines of Survival            Embodiment and Ethics3-Human Sociability and Moral DeliberationThe Ability to be SocialThe Dynamics of Human SocializationEvolution and Social GroupsSocial Deliberation about Ethics4-Dual Process Theories and Moral Deliberation            History of Decision Making Theory            Dual Process Theories of CognitionDual Process Theory and Moral Decision MakingThe Problems of Current Dual Process Moral Theory5-Type 2 Moral CognitionDeductive ReasoningAnalysisInductionCoherence-Based ReasoningAssessment of Type 2 Moral Reasoning6-Type 1 Moral Cognition            Characterization of Type 1 Processing             William James and Type 1 Cognition             A Jamesian Model of Moral Cognition            Aesthetic Moral Cognition7-Narrative And Moral Deliberation            Type 2 Processes and Narrative Interpretation            Type 2 Narrative and Applied Ethics            Type 1 Narrative Construction and Interpretation            Type 1 Moral Deliberation Using Narratives8-- Dual Processes Interacting in Moral Deliberation            Reflective Equilibrium            Perceptual Equilibrium            William James, Conceptual Translation, and the Mediating Attitude            A Dual Process Model of Moral Deliberation            An Abbreviated Illustration of the Model            The Importance of Aesthetic Sensibilities9-ConclusionEndnotesSelected Bibliography Index