For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their
separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic
fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in
biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have
drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and
evolutionary psychology to inform their work. This collaborative trend
is especially strong in moral philosophy, and these three volumes bring
together some of the most innovative work by both philosophers and
psychologists in this emerging interdisciplinary field. The contributors
to volume 2 discuss recent empirical research that uses the diverse
methods of cognitive science to investigate moral judgments, emotions,
and actions. Each chapter includes an essay, comments on the essay by
other scholars, and a reply by the author(s) of the original essay.
Topics include moral intuitions as a kind of fast and frugal heuristics,
framing effects in moral judgments, an analogy between Chomsky's
universal grammar and moral principles, the role of emotions in moral
beliefs, moral disagreements, the semantics of moral language, and moral
responsibility.
**Contributors to Volume 2:
**Fredrik Bjorklund, James Blair, Paul Bloomfield, Fiery Cushman, Justin
D'Arms, John Deigh, John Doris, Julia Driver, Ben Fraser, Gerd
Gigerenzer, Michael Gill, Jonathan Haidt, Marc Hauser, Daniel Jacobson,
Joshua Knobe, Brian Leiter, Don Loeb, Ron Mallon, Darcia Narvaez, Shaun
Nichols, Alexandra Plakias, Jesse Prinz, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Russ
Shafer-Landau, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Cass Sunstein, William
Tolhurst, Liane Young
