The Normative Significance of Empirical Moral Psychology

• Authors: Żuradzki Tomasz

Abstracts

EN

Many psychologists have tried to reveal the formation and processing of moral judgments by using a variety of empirical methods: behavioral data, tests of statistical significance, and brain imaging. Meanwhile, some scholars maintain that the new empirical findings of the ways we make moral judgments question the trustworthiness and authority of many intuitive ethical responses. The aim of this special issue is to encourage scholars to rethink how, if at all, it is possible to draw any normative conclusions by discovering the psychological processes underlying moral judgments.

Keywords

EN

moral psychology; empirical ethics; moral reasoning; meta-ethics; empathy; debunking arguments foreign-language effect; the veil of ignorance; dual-process theory

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Diametros
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 64
• Pages: 1-5

Dates

published

2020-06

Contributors

author

Żuradzki Tomasz

• Jagiellonian University, Institute of Philosophy & Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics

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Identifiers

DOI

10.33392/diam.1626

ISSN

ISSN 1733-5566