Description
The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology brings together philosophers, cognitive scientists, developmental and evolutionary psychologists, animal ethologists, intellectual historians, and educators to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the prospects for moral knowledge ever assembled in print. The book’s thirty chapters feature leading experts describing the nature of moral thought, its evolution, childhood development, and neurological realization. Various forms of moral skepticism are addressed along with the historical development of ideals of moral knowledge and their role in law, education, legal policy, and other areas of social life.
Highlights include:
• Analyses of moral cognition and moral learning by leading cognitive scientists
• Accounts of the normative practices of animals by expert animal ethologists
• An overview of the evolution of cooperation by preeminent evolutionary psychologists
• Sophisticated treatments of moral skepticism, relativism, moral uncertainty, and know-how by renowned philosophers
• Scholarly accounts of the development of Western moral thinking by eminent intellectual historians
• Careful analyses of the role played by conceptions of moral knowledge in political liberation movements, religious institutions, criminal law, secondary education, and professional codes of ethics articulated by cutting-edge social and moral philosophers.
Table of Contents
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)
