Moral Psychology Volume 5

<b>Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.</b><p>Philosophers have discussed virtue and character since Socrates but many traditional views have been challenged by recent findings in psychology and neuroscience. This fifth volume of <i>Moral Psychology </i>grows out of this new wave of interdisciplinary work on virtue vice and character. It offers essays commentaries and replies by leading philosophers and scientists who explain and use empirical findings from psychology and neuroscience to illuminate virtue and character and related issues in moral philosophy. The contributors discuss such topics as eliminativist and situationist challenges to character; investigate the conceptual and empirical foundations of self-control honesty humility and compassion; and consider whether the virtues contribute to well-being.</p><p><b>Contributors<br></b>Karl Aquino Jason Baehr C. Daniel Batson Lorraine L. Besser C. Daryl Cameron Tanya L. Chartrand M. J. Crockett Bella DePaulo Korrina A. Duffy William Fleeson Andrea L. Glenn Charles Goodman Geoffrey P. Goodwin George Graham June Gruber Thomas Hurka Eranda Jayawickreme Andreas Kappes Kristján Kristjánsson Daniel Lapsley Neil Levy E.J. Masicampo Joshua May Christian B. Miller M. A. Montgomery Thomas Nadelhoffer Eddy Nahmias Hanna Pickard Katie Rapier Raul Saucedo Shannon W. Schrader Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Nancy E. Snow Gopal Sreenivasan Chandra Sripada June P. Tangney Valerie Tiberius Simine Vazire Jennifer Cole Wright</p>