Moral Psychology - Topics

Topics

The subjects covered by moral psychology include:

  • Action
  • Agency
  • Personal identity (philosophy)
  • Psychological Egoism
  • Altruism
  • Moral rationalism
  • Human character
  • Ethical temperament
  • Standards of evaluation for moral action
  • Moral luck
  • Standards of personal moral success
  • 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
  • Moral commitment
  • Rationality in moral matters
  • Moral judgement
  • The relationship between ethics and moral action
  • The means by which moral agents understand each other
  • Humean (David Hume) versus Anti-Humean theories of motivation
  • Practical reasoning
  • Internalism and externalism in ethics

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