Sommers A Very Bad Wizard

Morality Behind the Curtain
2. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-135-10843-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

In the first edition of A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain – Nine Conversations, philosopher Tamler Sommers talked with an interdisciplinary group of the world’s leading researchers—from the fields of social psychology, moral philosophy, cognitive science, and primatology—all working on the same issue: the origins and workings of morality. Together, these nine interviews pulled back some of the curtain, not only on our moral lives but—through Sommers’ probing, entertaining, and well informed questions—on the way morality traditionally has been studied.

This Second Edition increases the subject matter, adding eight additional interviews and offering features that will make A Very Bad Wizard more useful in undergraduate classrooms. These features include structuring all chapters around sections and themes familiar in a course in ethics or moral psychology; providing follow-up podcasts for some of the interviews, which will delve into certain issues from the conversations in a more informal manner; including an expanded and annotated reading list with relevant primary sources at the end of each interview; presenting instructor and student resources online in a companion website.

The resulting new publication promises to synthesize and make accessible the latest interdisciplinary research to offer a brand new way to teach philosophical ethics and moral psychology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sommers, Tamler

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents:

Part I Moral Origins
Chapter 1: Frans De Waal on human and ape morality
Chapter 2: Chistopher Boehm on the evolution of altruism, shame, and aggression.
Chapter 3: Joseph Henrich on the evolution of norms across culture
Chapter 4: Jonathan Haidt on moral emotions and moral judgments

Part II: Normative Ethics and Social Psychology
Chapter 5: Peter Singer on consequentialism, animal welfare, and our obligations to those in poverty.
Chapter 6: Josh Greene and Liane Young on neuroscience, emotions, and consequentialist and deontological theories.
Chapter 7: Cynthia Freeland on Aristotle and Virtues
Chapter 8: Philip Zimbardo on situationism in moral psychology
Chapter 9: Valerie Tiberius on sentimentalist approaches to normative ethics

Part III: Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Punishment
Chapter 10: Galen Strawson on the impossibility of moral responsibility
Chapter 11: Susan Wolf on reason-based accounts of freedom and responsibility.
Chapter 12: William Ian Miller on honor, revenge, and punishment.
Chapter 13: Nicola Lacey on criminal responsibility and the politics of criminal justice

Part IV: Metaethics
Chapter 14: Michael Smith on moral realism.
Chapter 15: Michael Ruse on moral skepticism
Chapter 16: Simon Blackburn on expressivist theories in metaethics
Chapter 17: Sarah McGrath on moral disagreement and moral relativism
Chapter 18: Stephen Stich on the role of intuitions in ethics and metaethics.

Über Autor(innen)

Tamler Sommers is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. His research focuses on moral responsibility, revenge, honor, and the philosophy of punishment. He is the author of Relative Justice: Cultural Diversity, Free Will and Moral Responsibility (2012) and co-host of the Very Bad Wizards podcast. He is currently writing a book in defense of honor.