Character as moral fiction / Mark Alfano.
This provocative contribution to ethics and epistemology argues that virtue attributions are self-fulfilling prophecies.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Character as Moral Fiction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction tripartite naturalistic ethics; 1 Virtue and vice today; 2 What is naturalistic ethics?; 2.1 Naturalistic normative theory; 2.2 Naturalistic moral psychology; 2.3 Introducing naturalistic moral technology; 2.3.1 Does moral technology need an introduction?; 2.3.2 Is moral technology paternalistic or manipulative?; 3 A roadmap; Part I Factitious moral virtue; Chapter 1 Identifying the hard core of virtue ethics; 1 The virtues of virtues; 1.1 Virtue and moral contemplation. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1.2 Virtue and moral evaluation1.3 Moral schizophrenia versus virtue as a 'thick' concept; 1.4 Virtue as action-guiding; 1.5 Virtue and the 'is'-'ought' gap; 1.6 Virtue and moral education; 2 Limning the hard core; 2.1 Acquirability; 2.2 Stability; 2.3 Consistency; 2.4 Access; 2.5 Normativity; 2.6 Real saints; 2.7 Explanatory power; 2.8 Predictive power; 2.9 Egalitarianism; 2.10 Integration; Chapter 2 Rearticulating the situationist challenge; 1 Motivating the challenge; 2 Interfering factors; 2.1 Bad reasons; 2.1.1 Temptations; 2.1.2 Demand characteristics; 2.2 Situational non-reasons. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2.2.1 Ambient sounds2.2.2 Ambient smells; 2.2.3 Other sensibilia; 2.2.4 Mood elevators and depressors; 2.2.5 A note on empathy; 2.2.6 Attentional focus and openness to new experiences; 2.3 Non-moral individual differences; 2.3.1 Culture and gender; 2.3.2 The 'Big Five' individual difference measures; 3 Explaining away intuitions about traits; 3.1 Attribution errors; 3.1.1 The fundamental attribution error; 3.1.2 The false consensus effect; 3.1.3 The power of construal; 3.2 Heuristics and biases; 3.2.1 Selection bias; 3.2.2 Availability bias; 3.2.3 Availability cascade; 3.2.4 Confirmation bias. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4 The Mischellian consensusChapter 3 Attempts to defend virtue ethics; 1 Families of responses to situationism; 2 The dodge; 3 The retreat; 3.1 Virtuous acts; 3.2 Local virtues; 4 The counterattack; 4.1 Introspection; 4.2 Equivocation; 4.3 Morally unimportant behavior; 4.4 One-off versus longitudinal studies; 4.5 Confounding traits; 4.6 The behaviorism bogeyman; 4.7 Parity of traits and situations; 4.8 Mischel and Shoda's "cognitive-affective personality system"; 5 Towards an irenic interactionism; 5.1 The portability of context; 5.2 Situation-consumerism versus situation-producerism. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 4 Factitious moral virtue1 Introduction; 2 Placebo effects and self-fulfilling prophecies; 2.1 Placebo effects; 2.2 Self-fulfilling prophecies; 3 Factitious virtue; 3.1 Labeling and self-concept; 3.2 The plausibility condition; 3.3 The publicity condition; 3.4 The correct conception condition; 3.5 The inadvisability of vice-labeling; 3.6 Interpersonal forces in labeling; 4 Replies to objections; 4.1 Factitious virtue versus moral credentialing; 4.2 Self-concept and situationism: friends or foes?; 4.3 Damning with feigned praise?; 5 Speculative conjectures; 5.1 A developmental story. | |
| 500 | |a 5.2 What kind of speech act is virtue-labeling? | ||
| 520 | |a This provocative contribution to ethics and epistemology argues that virtue attributions are self-fulfilling prophecies. | ||
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