Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings
Book Details
Author(s)
Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405190205
ISBN-13
9781405190206
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#4,406,359
Category
Hardcover
Marketplace
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Description
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
