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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Moral Knowledge"”.
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How moral knowledge motivates: a practical reason account
When we make moral judgements and act morally we recognise and respond to reasons that are there whether we recognise them or not. This is the claim defended in this thesis. It has two aspects. The first is that acts of moral judgement aspire, sometimes successfully, to moral knowledge. This is …
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Chronic accessibility of virtue-trait inferences : a social-cognitive approach to the moral personality
This study examined the hypothesis that the moral personality is one in which moral knowledge structures are chronically accessible. A spontaneous trait inference cued-recall paradigm was employed. It was expected that those with chronically accessible moral knowledge structures (N = 61) would …
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Praise without perfection
… like us, who are both epistemically flawed and morally imperfect. First, how should such agents form and revise their moral beliefs? Second, how should we morally evaluate the actions of such agents - under which conditions do their actions have moral worth? I approach these questions by …
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Knowing Better, Reasoning Together
<p>We take ourselves to have some knowledge about what’s right and wrong to do. But how easy is this knowledge to get? In the first two chapters of this dissertation I argue for the novel conclusion that it is harder to have moral knowledge than non-moral knowledge due to the fact that moral …
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Jane Jacobs The Ethicist: Systems of Survival and Jacobs' Moral Philosophy
This work intends to show that Jacobs’ moral philosophy makes a strong case for objective moral knowledge. She posits that there are two moral syndromes that are intended to guide working life morality. Roughly speaking, the commercial syndrome guides commerce and the guardian syndrome governs …
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Moral expertise and moral education : a Socratic account
… answer to them. In Chapter 1 ("Virtue as Expert Moral Knowledge") I develop and defend a novel interpretation of the Socratic thesis that virtue is a kind of knowledge. I argue that the relevant kind of knowledge of interest to Socrates is expert moral knowledge or moral expertise-a complex …
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The Role of Moral Exemplars in Stanley Hauer's Ethics
… Hauerwas, with particular focus on the role of moral exemplars in his theory. Hauerwas emphasizes the role of what are called "moral exemplars" in his virtue ethics. These are people or characters of narratives that best exemplify virtue. A theory is exemplarist if the moral concepts of the …
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"Moral perception": an examination and revision
… theorists have advanced what seems to be a novel moral epistemology or explanation of how it is that agents come to form moral beliefs and acquire moral knowledge. Known to this point simply as “moral perception,” this view claims that it is possible to “perceive” moral facts in much the same way …
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Darwinian humility : epistemological applications of evolutionary science
… - to investigate the extent and nature of human knowledge by exploring the relation between human cognition, epistemic luck, and biological and cultural fitness. In "The Epistemic Upshot of Adaptationist Explanation," I argue that knowledge of the evolution by natural selection of human cognition …
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L'azione economica tra etica e neurobiologia
… aim of this paper is to establish whether our moral knowledge of economics may claim any scientific objectivity in light of advances in subject areas that differ in their scope and methods: moral philosophy, economics, cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence, each of which makes a …
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Modelling Diarists: Diary-writing and Moral Anxieties in China, 1918–62
… ideology in the Maoist era but shifting moral principles and anxieties throughout the twentieth century. All in all, this thesis demonstrates the value of diaries for studying moral knowledge, epistemologies, and anxieties at the grassroots in midcentury China.
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Moral competence and the psychopath.
Various theories of moral judgment have been proposed in light of recent empirical research in cognitive neuroscience and moral psychology. Some of the evidence is thought to indicate that emotional and intuitive processes are primarily responsible for moral judgement. There is also evidence to …
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Imaginative Simulation in the Moral Life
… and so on). My thesis suggests that analytic moral philosophy would benefit from a sustained consideration of the role that imaginative simulation plays in our moral thinking. Indeed, it is because imaginative simulation involves the same critical sensorimotor, perceptual, affective, and …
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Computational foundations of human social intelligence
… intelligence underlying human cooperation and morality. Human social intelligence is uniquely powerful. We collaborate with others to accomplish together what none of us could do on our own; we share the benefits of collaboration fairly and trust others to do the same. Even young children work …
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A Feminist Defense of Moderate Moral Intuitionism
… are concerned with the epistemic status of moral intuitions. The first article argues in favour of moderate moral intuitionism, the view that while any successful moral epistemology must be intuitionist to at least some extent, it must also take intuitions to be fallible. This is …
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God’s Chosen Candidate Pulpit Freedom Sunday and the Reshaping of Evangelical Political Mobilization, Pulpit Politicking, and Church-State Relations
… anxieties about the perceived disappearance of moral knowledge from public life, the evolving role of clergy as political actors, and the uneasy place of religious authority within a secularizing political order. This dissertation examines these questions through a mixed-methods analysis of …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
… century, people still grappled with foundational moral questions. These questions came to be addressed in increasingly secular ways by moral philosophy. As these philosophers occupied influential government, law, and publishing positions, their ideas and works greatly influenced the public …