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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Moral psychology"”.
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Crowdsourcing moral psychology
… in building a data-driven understanding of human moral psychology. They have been conducted all over the world for decades, eliciting assessment of ethical dilemma outcomes from populations as diverse as those of rural, tribal settlements, and industrialized, information-age, cosmopolitan cities. …
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Moral Psychology And Political Campaigns
Theories of moral psychology suggest that American partisans rely on different moral domains to inform their political decision making (Haidt 2012; Lakoff 1996). This project addresses the use of moral framing, language, and traits in American political campaigns. It first examines the language of …
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Methodological issues in epistemology and moral psychology
… two subfields in philosophy – epistemology and moral psychology – both of which have witnessed increased uses of psychological methods to investigate philosophical questions.
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UNDERSTANDING DISAGREEMENT: THE NEED FOR MORAL PSYCHOLOGY IN BIOETHICS
… point out: "Conscientious and reasonable moral agents understandably disagree over moral priorities in circumstances of a contingent conflict of norms." These disagreements are sometimes contentious; and without cooperation, or at least tolerance, deliberations involving bioethics issues …
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The Moral Psychology of Implicit Bias: Interpretations, Obligations, and Responsibilities
… characterizations of implicit bias, our moral responsibility for it, and how these accounts translate into applications in real-world settings. At the center of my work is the view that philosophical theorizing regarding implicit bias should be informed by careful attention to the nuances …
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The Ontology, Etiology, and Moral Psychology of Action: Aristotle and Today
Aristotle’s theory of action answers two central questions in Action Theory today: What causes action? What role do psychological attitudes play in action? Chapter 1 dispels misunderstandings about Aristotle’s theory of causation. Influential interpretations assume that Aristotle’s material, …
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Turkish teachers' beliefs regarding moral psychology and implicit moral education: a case study
… beliefs and attitudes regarding aspects of moral education and moral psychology, and the development of these beliefs and attitudes through teacher training and experience. Both internationally and in Turkey it is generally agreed that teachers are not well enough equipped to carry out moral …
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Does Empirical Moral Psychology Rest on a Mistake? Understanding Theories About the Nature of Moral Judgment as Moral Propositions
… the thesis that theories about the nature of moral judgment must be understood as carrying moral commitments. This has profound consequences for the methodology of metaethics. Specifically, it implies that theories about the nature of moral judgment cannot be understood as empirical …
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A loss of will: "Arminianism," nonsectarianism, and the erosion of American psychology's moral project, 1636--1890
<p>The concept of "the will" dominated American moral psychology for nearly three centuries. To possess a will was, among other things, to be made in the image of God and to have moral responsibility. College textbooks, as tools of moral inculcation, conveyed this moral psychology from the …
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How Fundraisers Solve Moral Dilemmas: The Role of Implicit Moral Identity, Moral Emotions and Moral Intuition
This study explores the mediating affect of moral emotions on the relationship of implicit moral identity and moral intuition amongst fundraisers. The existing literature highlights the importance of ethical fundraising, as evidenced by criticism in the media (Hill, 2019). In many cases, …
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Rethinking Shame
My dissertation defends the place of shame in moral psychology. I critique the two dominant accounts of shame in the current literature: the optimistic view, which states that shame is the experience of failing to live up to a virtue or excellence that one values, and the pessimistic view, which …
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Religion, Science, and the Conscious Self: Bio-Psychological Explanation and the Debate Between Dualism and Naturalism
… existence and nature of God, and the nature of moral judgment through contemporary neuroscience, cognitive science, scientific moral psychology, and analytic philosophy of mind. Contrary to proposals that seek a harmonious integration of "religion and science" this dissertation argues that …
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Longing for the Good: The Growth of Moral Order in the Ethics of F. H. Bradley
… At the same time, his account of the growth of moral order in the individual offers a counterweight to excessively organicist theories of the moral self, which dissolve it into social context and undercut the possibility of non-social, non-trivial moral norms. This thesis argues that Bradley …
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A Thomistic principle of virtue individuation.
… goals. The first goal is to draw contemporary moral philosophers' attention to the need for a principal approach to virtue individuation. When we individuate virtues, we answer questions about the number of human virtues that exist and the ways in which they differ from one another. Most …
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Cognitions and emotions - testing the tenets of Fairness Theory
… injury or harm, and whether or not an ethical or moral standard was violated by such conduct (termed “Would,” “Could,” and “Should,” respectively). In this paper, we examine the role each of these elements plays in the assessment of fairness. Across two laboratory studies we show that a …
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Are There Personality Factors That Can Undermine Moral Judgment Development?
<p>Research in moral psychology has focused on understanding what factors assist in the development of moral action and decision making. Examples of these research factors include educational experiences (Rest et al, 1986), intelligence (Rest, 1979), and social networking (Derryberry & Thoma, …
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Philo of Alexandria's Exposition of the Tenth Commandment
… his exposition in the context of Middle-Platonic moral psychology, this dissertation answers two fundamental questions: First, what, in Philo's view, does the Tenth Commandment prohibit? (All desire? A certain type? What type?) Second, how, in Philo's view, is the Tenth Commandment observed? (What …
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Elections Have Consequences: Moral Value Foundations Ensure Gridlock through the Ballot Box
… gridlock in Washington, research in moral psychology has implicated reliance on differing moral value foundations between liberals and conservatives as a determinant of partisan divides. While Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) research has highlighted the effect of moral values on a …
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She said, hey! put your self in my shoes : moral theory and the Gilligan-Kohlberg controversy
… is an examination of a debate in contemporary moral theory that centres on the issue of whether moral thinking and practise ought to be based on formal principles of justice or upon caring and responsibility. On one hand is the view that justice is the ethically optimal endpoint of moral …
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