The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology

Aaron Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of two books: Moral Epistemology (2010) and Belief: A Pragmatic Picture (2018). Karen Jones is Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. She has written extensively about trust, what it is, and when it is justified. She is the coeditor, with Francois Schroeter, of The Many Moral Rationalisms (2018). Much of her work is from a feminist perspective. Mark Timmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He specializes in Kant’s ethics and metaethics. A collection of his essays on Kant, Significance and System: Essays on Kant’s Ethics was published in 2017. He is currently at work on two books: one on Kant’s doctrine of virtue and another (with Terry Horgan) on moral phenomenology.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Section I: Science

1 The Quest for the Boundaries of Morality

Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)

2 The Normative Sense: What is Universal? What Varies?

Elizabeth O’Neill (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) and Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)

3 Normative Practices of Other Animals

Sarah Vincent (University of North Florida), Rebecca Ring (York University) and Kristin Andrews (York University)

4 The Neuroscience of Moral Judgement

Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Yale University) and Guy Kahane (University of Oxford)

5 Moral Development in Humans

Julia Van de Vondervoort (University of British Columbia) and Kiley Hamlin (University of British Columbia)

6 Moral Learning

Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona)

7 Moral Reasoning and Emotion

Joshua May (University of Alabama, Birmingham) and Victor Kumar (Boston University)

8 Moral Intuitions and Heuristics

Piotr M. Patrzyk (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

9 The Evolution of Moral Cognition

Leda Cosmides (University of California, Santa Barbara), Ricardo Andrés Guzmán

(Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile), and John Tooby (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Section II: Normative Theory

10 Ancient and Medieval Moral Epistemology
Matthias Perkams (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)

11 Modern Moral Epistemology
Kenneth R. Westphal (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Turkey)

12 Contemporary Moral Epistemology
Rob Shaver (University of Manitoba. Winnipeg, Canada)

13 The Denial of Moral Knowledge
Richard Joyce (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

14 Nihilism and the Epistemic Profile of Moral Judgment
Jonas Olson (Stockholm University, Sweden)

15 Relativism and Pluralism in Moral Epistemology
David B. Wong (Duke University)

16 Rationalism and Intuitionism—Assessing Three Views about the Psychology of Moral Judgment
Christian B. Miller (Wake Forest College)

17 Moral Perception
Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)

18 Moral Intuition
Matthew S. Bedke (University of British Columbia, Canada)

19 Foundationalism and Coherentism in Moral Epistemology
Noah Lemos (College of William and Mary)

20 Moral Theory and its Role in Everyday Moral Thought and Action
Brad Hooker (University of Reading, England)

Section III: Applications

21 Methods, Goals, and Data in Moral Theorizing

John Bengson (University of Wisconsin), Terence Cuneo (University of Vermont), and Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin)

22 Moral Knowledge as Know-How

Jennifer Cole Wright (College of Charleston)

23 Group Moral Knowledge

Deborah Tollefsen and Christopher Lucibella (University of Memphis)

24 Moral Epistemology and Liberation Movements

Lauren Woomer (Independent Scholar)

25 Moral Expertise

Alison Hills (Oxford University, UK)

26 Moral Epistemology and Professional Codes of Ethics

Alan Goldman (College of William and Mary)

27 Teaching Virtue

Nancy E. Snow (The University of Oklahoma) and Scott Beck (Principal, Norman High School, Oklahoma)

28 Decision-Making Under Moral Uncertainty

Andrew Sepielli (University of Toronto)

29 Public Policy and Philosophical Accounts of Desert

Steven Sverdlik (Southern Methodist University)

30 Religion and Moral Knowledge

C. A. J. Coady (The University of Melbourne, Australia)