Topics
The subjects covered by moral psychology include:
- Action
- Agency
- Personal identity (philosophy)
- Psychological Egoism
- Altruism
- Moral rationalism
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- Human character
- Ethical temperament
- Standards of evaluation for moral action
- Moral luck
- Standards of personal moral success
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- The structure of action
- Perceived causes and events of moral action
- Emotions in morality
- The faculties of the mind involved in moral decision
- The interaction of those faculties and the emotions
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- Moral commitment
- Rationality in moral matters
- Moral judgement
- The relationship between ethics and moral action
- The means by which moral agents understand each other
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- Humean (David Hume) versus Anti-Humean theories of motivation
- Practical reasoning
- Internalism and externalism in ethics
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