The social turn in moral psychology /

The social turn in moral psychology /

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Author / Creator:	Fedyk, Mark, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethics. Ethics -- Psychological aspects. Moral development. Psychology and philosophy. Social psychology. Ethics Psychology, Social Ethics. Ethics -- Psychological aspects. Moral development. Psychology and philosophy. Social psychology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11357984

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ISBN:	9780262337151 0262337150 9780262035569 0262035561
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 13, 2017).
Summary:	"In this book, Mark Fedyk offers a novel analysis of the relationship between moral psychology and allied fields in the social sciences. Fedyk shows how the social sciences can be integrated with moral philosophy, argues for the benefits of such an integration, and offers a new ethical theory that can be used to bridge research between the two. Fedyk argues that moral psychology should take a social turn, investigating the psychological processes that motivate patterns of social behavior defined as ethical using normative information extracted from the social sciences. He points out methodological problems in conventional moral psychology, particularly the increasing methodological and conceptual inconsilience with both philosophical ethics and evolutionary biology. Fedyk's "causal theory of ethics" is designed to provide moral psychology with an ethical theory that can be used without creating tension between its scientific practice and the conceptual vocabulary of philosophical ethics. His account aims both to redirect moral psychology toward more socially realistic questions about human life and to introduce philosophers to a new form of ethical naturalism--a way of thinking about how to use different fields of scientific research to answer some of the traditional questions that are at the heart of ethics"--Publisher website
Other form:	Print version: Fedyk, Mark. Social turn in moral psychology. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017] 9780262035569

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Biology and evolutionary moral psychology
The social and the psychological dimensions of ethics
Methodological lessons from philosophical ethics
Inconsilience between ADJDM moral psychology and philosophical ethics
Moral dumbfounding
The causal theory of ethics
Hard-question social theory
Descriptive moral psychology
Normative moral psychology
Conclusion
Index.