Hume's Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-58921-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Recent work at the intersection of moral philosophy and the philosophy of psychology has dealt mostly with Aristotelian virtue ethics. The dearth of scholarship that engages with Hume’s moral philosophy, however, is both noticeable and peculiar. Hume's Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology demonstrates how Hume’s moral philosophy comports with recent work from the empirical sciences and moral psychology. It shows how contemporary work in virtue ethics has much stronger similarities to the metaphysically thin conception of human nature that Hume developed, rather than the metaphysically thick conception of human nature that Aristotle espoused. It also reveals how contemporary work in moral motivation and moral epistemology has strong affinities with themes in Hume’s sympathetic sentimentalism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reed, Philip A.

Vitz, Rico

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Hume's Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology: An Overview

Philip A. Reed

1. Beyond the "Disease of the Learned": Hume on Passional Disorders

Margaret Watkins

2. Hume on the Rarity of Virtue

Philip A. Reed

3. Spontaneity, Intuition, and Humean Virtue

Erin Frykholm

4. Character, Culture, and Humean Virtue Ethics: Insights from Situationism and Confucianism

Rico Vitz

5. Empahty, Autism, and Hume

Katharina Paxman Renick

6. Cultivating Empathic Concern and Altruistic Motivation: Insights from Hume and Batson

Annette Pierdziwol

7. Preserving Practicality: In Defense of Hume's Sympathy-Based Ethics

Lorenzo Greco

8. Hume, Bloom, and Moral Inclusion

Anne Jacobson

9. Empathy, Interdependency, and Morality: Building from Hume's Account

Lorraine Besser

10. The Philosophical Power of Hume's Notion of Love

Christine Swanton

11. Hume on the Methods and Limits of the Science of Human Nature

Saul Traiger

12. Hume on Moral Motivation

Michael Gill

13. Passionate Regulation and the Practicality of Reason

Elizabeth Radcliffe

14. Hume on Affective Leadership

Eric Schliesser

Conclusion: Hume's Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology: Future Directions

Rico Vitz

Über Autor(innen)

Philip A. Reed is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College, USA where he also codirects the Ethics and Justice Programs. His main areas of interest are in ethics, political philosophy, and moral psychology. His articles on Hume's moral psychology appear in such places as History of Philosophy Quarterly, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and Canadian Journal of Philosophy. He has also published articles in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and Christian Bioethics.

Rico Vitz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, USA and serves as the Executive Vice President-Treasurer of the Hume Society. He is the author of Reforming the Art of Living: Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology, co-editor of The Ethics of Belief: Individual and Social, and the editor of Turning East: Contemporary Philosophers and the Ancient Christian Faith.