Moral Psychology Volume 2 - The Cognitive Science of Morality

For much of the twentieth century philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s however many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology brain science and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. This collaborative trend is especially strong in moral philosophy and these three volumes bring together some of the most innovative work by both philosophers and psychologists in this emerging interdisciplinary field. The contributors to volume 2 discuss recent empirical research that uses the diverse methods of cognitive science to investigate moral judgments emotions and actions. Each chapter includes an essay comments on the essay by other scholars and a reply by the author(s) of the original essay. Topics include moral intuitions as a kind of fast and frugal heuristics framing effects in moral judgments an analogy between Chomsky''s universal grammar and moral principles the role of emotions in moral beliefs moral disagreements the semantics of moral language and moral responsibility.Contributors to Volume 2: Fredrik Bjorklund James Blair Paul Bloomfield Fiery Cushman Justin D''Arms John Deigh John Doris Julia Driver Ben Fraser Gerd Gigerenzer Michael Gill Jonathan Haidt Marc Hauser Daniel Jacobson Joshua Knobe Brian Leiter Don Loeb Ron Mallon Darcia Narvaez Shaun Nichols Alexandra Plakias Jesse Prinz Geoffrey Sayre-McCord Russ Shafer-Landau Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Cass Sunstein William Tolhurst Liane Young