Moral reality and the empirical sciences / by Thomas Pölzler.
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| Language: | English |
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2018.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Moral Realism and Anti-Realism; 1.2 The Scientific Approach; 1.3 Approach, Theses and Contents; 2 Metatheoretical Considerations; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Objection from Hume's Law; 2.3 The Objection from Non-Naturalism; 2.4 The Semantics and Philosophical Psychology Objection; 2.5 The Logical Priority Objection; 2.6 Conclusion; 3 Folk Moral Realism; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Experience, Truth and Objectivity; 3.3 Ordinary People; 3.4 Research on Folk Moral Realism; 3.5 Incomprehensiveness of Answer Choices.
- 3.6 Conflation with Distinct Issues3.7 First-Order Moral and Epistemic Intuitions; 3.8 Classification and Instructions; 3.9 Two Fundamental Worries; 3.10 Conclusion; 4 Moral Disagreement; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Disagreement and Morality; 4.3 Widespreadness; 4.4 Eliminative Explanations; 4.5 Research on Moral Disagreement; 4.6 Defending One's Honor; 4.7 Punishing an Innocent; 4.8 Actions and Omissions; 4.9 Conclusion; 5 Moral Judgments and Emotions; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Moral Judgments' Association with Emotions; 5.3 Sentimentalism's Empirical Predictions.
- 5.4 Research on Moral Judgments and Emotions5.5 The Co-Occurrence Hypothesis; 5.6 The Causal Influence Hypothesis; 5.7 The Causal Sufficiency Hypothesis; 5.8 The Causal Necessity Hypothesis; 5.9 Conclusion; 6 The Evolution of Morality; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Moral Judgments and Adaptations; 6.3 Variants of the Adaptation Hypotheses; 6.4 Debunking Requirements; 6.5 Research on the Evolution of Morality; 6.6 The Argument from Design; 6.7 The Universality Argument; 6.8 The Poverty of Stimulus Argument; 6.9 Conclusion; 7 Conclusion; 7.1 Comprehensiveness; 7.2 Empirical Focus.
- 7.3 Clarificatory Focus7.4 Metatheoretical Considerations; Index.