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 books 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
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"Over the past decade, moral epistemology has become one of the most exciting subfields in philosophy. This handbook provides an unparalleled orientation to many of the diverse and complex current debates in this subfield, including many that are set to further transform our understanding of ethical knowledge in the near future."
-Tristram McPherson, The Ohio State University "Few stones are left unturned in this highly concise and academic compilation of articles.
In the end, one has the editors and contributors to thank for a magnificent collection of scholarly articles on a subject that has relevance to everyoneand will undoubtedly be a standard reference work for decades to come."
-Jamin A Hübner, Professor and Research Fellow, Rapid City
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| Preface to Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology |
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1 The Quest for the Boundaries of Morality |
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2 The Normative Sense: What is Universal? What Varies? |
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3 Normative Practices of Other Animals |
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4 The Neuroscience of Moral Judgment |
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5 Moral Development in Humans |
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Julia W. Van de Vondervoort |
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7 Moral Reasoning and Emotion |
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8 Moral Intuitions and Heuristics |
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9 The Evolution of Moral Cognition |
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SECTION II Normative Theory |
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10 Ancient and Medieval Moral Epistemology |
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11 Modern Moral Epistemology |
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12 Contemporary Moral Epistemology |
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13 The Denial of Moral Knowledge |
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14 Nihilism and the Epistemic Profile of Moral Judgment |
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15 Relativism and Pluralism in Moral Epistemology |
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16 Rationalism and Inflationism---Assessing Three Views about the Psychology of Moral Judgments |
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19 Foundationalism and Coherentism in Moral Epistemology |
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20 Moral Theory and Its Role in Everyday Moral Thought and Action |
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21 Methods, Goals, and Data in Moral Theorizing |
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22 Moral Knowledge as Know-How |
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24 Moral Epistemology and Liberation Movements |
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26 Moral Epistemology and Professional Codes of Ethics |
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28 Decision Making under Moral Uncertainty |
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29 Public Policy and Philosophical Accounts of Desert |
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30 Religion and Moral Knowledge |
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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 Kants ethics and metaethics. A collection of his essays on Kant, Significance and System: Essays on Kants Ethics was published in 2017. He is currently at work on two books: one on Kants doctrine of virtue and another (with Terry Horgan) on moral phenomenology.
