Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings

Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings is the first book to bring together the most significant contemporary and historical works on the topic from both philosophy and psychology.

• Provides a comprehensive introduction to moral psychology, which is the study of psychological mechanisms and processes underlying ethics and morality
• Unique in bringing together contemporary texts by philosophers, psychologists and other cognitive scientists with foundational works from both philosophy and psychology
• Approaches moral psychology from an empirically informed perspective
• Explores a wide range of topics from passion and altruism to virtue and responsibility
• Editorial introductions to each section explain the background of and connections between the selections