Moral Psychology

Edited by Joshua May (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
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Summary Moral psychology is the study of phenomena such as moral thought, feeling, reasoning, and motivation. For example, in moral psychology, one wonders what role reasoning and emotions play in generating moral judgment. Similarly, one asks whether moral motivation has its source in reason or rather sentiments or desire. Other key issues include: the tight connection between moral judgment and motivation, altruism versus egoism, character, and even the evolution of moral capacities.  The topics reveal the partly empirical nature of the field, which makes it of necessity interdisciplinary, even though one can pursue many interesting issue from the armchair. Many of these philosophical problems have ramifications in others areas, especially metaethics. If, for example, moral judgment is grounded in sentiment, then this may support a non-cognitivists theory, which threatens moral realism.
Key works Issues in moral psychology have been dominant in the history of philosophy. Nadelhoffer et al 2010 provide a collection of key historical as well as contemporary readings. Focusing on more recent work, Smith's 1994 book has been highly influential in the literature, from moral judgment to motivation. Compare also Nagel 1970 and Korsgaard 1996. On the empirical side, Sinnott-Armstrong 2008 provides a comprehensive state of the art with three volumes full of new articles and replies from prominent philosophers and scientists. 
Introductions A brief introduction to some topics in moral psychology is in Slote 1998. Rosati's (2006) entry on moral motivation provides an introduction to one cluster of key issues in moral psychology. For a way into the empirical work, see Doris & Stich 2008, May 2017, and Doris 2010.
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Moral Character (4,002 | 1,335)
Moral Judgment* (1,265 | 407)
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History/traditions: Moral Psychology

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  1. Dead Sea apple cases of disappointment.Atus Mariqueo-Russell - forthcoming - Utilitas.
    Paradigm cases of disappointment occur when we fail to attain the object of our desire, or when doing so frustrates some of our other desires. However, some non-standard cases seem not to fit this pattern. We occasionally find ourselves disappointed despite perceiving that our desire has been fulfilled. Experiences of this sort are sometimes called ‘Dead Sea apples’. Such cases threaten the viability of theories that claim that fulfilling our desires always makes our lives go better for us. This paper (...)
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  2. Validation of the Moral Foundation Vignettes in Latin America: The Scope of Moral Foundations through the Lens of an Instrument.William Jiménez-Leal, Gino Carmona Díaz, Samuel Murray & Santiago Amaya - 2025 - Collabra: Psychology 11 (1):128178.
    In this paper we examine the structural validity of the Spanish Translation of the Moral Foundations Vignettes, an instrument developed to measure moral judgement in the context of Moral Foundations Theory. With data from 3 countries (N = 1,650, through a polling agency) we identify a restricted set of items that fit the seven-factor solution implied by the theory. We conducted additional analyses (invariance testing and Differential Item Functioning) to examine the stability the results of the across countries. We found (...)
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  3. Extended Virtues and Future Ethics.Xiuyuan An - forthcoming - Spontaneous Generations.
    The Extended Virtues (EV) theory challenges the traditional notion that an individual’s character traits stem solely from one’s mental state and posits that external factors also play a big part in how we characterize virtues. In critiquing the philosopher Robert Howell’s version of EV, the article advocates for EV by examining the essential constituents of virtues. It emphasizes the necessity of consistent moral decision-making and argues that virtues are better characterized through the active engagement of agents rather than being passively (...)
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  4. Enactive Moral Agency: The Case of Wang Yangming.Chi-Keung Chan - forthcoming - International Philosophical Quarterly.
    This paper introduces an enactive perspective to Neo-Confucian ethics, specifically focusing on Wang Yangming’s concept of moral knowledge (liangzhi良知). While traditional ethical models in the Song-Ming Neo-Confucian tradition typically emphasize establishing a solid foundation by grasping universal rational principles or cultivating a moral mind essential for ethical living, this paper challenges such notions with the enactive insights of groundlessness. It argues against the existence of a fixed, isolated metaphysical ground in our ethical lives. Instead, it posits that any metaphysical moral (...)
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  5. Moral Conflict Resolution and Normative Adjustment.F. Bina - forthcoming - Argumenta.
    In this paper, I show how a pragmatist stance may address the problem of the resolvability of moral conflicts. Pragmatism challenges skeptical and relativist views by arguing that moral conflict resolution is possible via inquiry and exchange of reasons. From a normative standpoint, pragmatism also differs from utilitarian and deontological views, according to which a specific moral theory is correct in every context. From a pragmatist point of view, both utilitarian and deontological responses can be justified, depending on contextual conditions (...)
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  6. Feeling bad about mass murders: what does it tell us about moral psychology and emotion?Marco Viola - 2025 - Philosophical Psychology 38 (3):1063-1071.
    Munch-Jurisic’s book thoroughly describes several cases of severe distresses reported and expressed by perpetrators of tremendous acts such as mass murders. Arguing against a simplistic reading according to which these signs of distress are straightforward manifestations of some innate moral nature, and against the optimistic reading according to which they will lead to prosocial behaviors, Munch-Jursic offers compelling reasons to adopt a more complex theory of emotion. In this commentary, I aim to stress the implications of her book for the (...)
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  7. Negotiation is about entitlements, not interests.Alexios Arvanitis - 2022 - Theory and Psychology 32 (1):82-96.
    The psychological study of negotiation, influenced by economics, has long emphasized the interests of the bargaining parties as the main driver of the negotiation process. This remains the case, even though psychological research has shown that individuals do not behave in the manner predicted by classical economics. A main drawback of the concept of interests is that it is an individual-level construct and, therefore, does not tap directly into the interindividual nature of the negotiation process. In contrast, entitlements can serve (...)
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  8. T. H. Green and Henry Sidgwick on free agency and the guise of the good. E. E. Sheng - 2025 - European Journal of Philosophy 33 (1):56-72.
    The history of the thesis of the guise of the good between Kant and Anscombe is not well understood. This article examines a notable disagreement over the thesis during this period, between Green and Sidgwick. It shows that Green accepts versions of the thesis concerning action and desire in one sense of 'desire', and that Sidgwick rejects the thesis concerning both action and desire. It then considers why Green accepts the thesis, and assesses Sidgwick's criticism of Green. Despite the appearance (...)
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  9. The Philosophy of the Zhuangzi.Mercedes Valmisa - 2024 - In Ambrogio Selusi & Rogacz Dawid, Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 223-243.
  10. (1 other version)Knowing Your Commitments in Action.Merve Rumeysa Tapınç - forthcoming - Episteme.
    An interesting class of intentions is commitments: diachronic intentions that are especially representative of human agency. I argue that the justification conditions for knowing our commitments differ from those for knowing ordinary intentions, and I propose an externalist view according to which knowing one’s own commitments is much like knowing those of others. I discuss Sarah Paul’s transparency view, according to which, we know our intentions by making a conscious decision, even when we do not follow through on them. This (...)
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  11. Evidence for multiple kinds of belief in theory of mind.Alejandro Vesga, Neil Van Leeuwen & Tania Lombrozo - forthcoming - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
    People routinely appeal to ‘beliefs’ in explaining behavior; psychologists do so as well (for instance, in explaining belief polarization and learning). Across three studies (N = 1,843, U.S-based adults), we challenge the assumption that ‘belief’ picks out a single construct in people’s theory of mind. Instead, laypeople attribute different kinds of beliefs depending on whether the beliefs play predominantly epistemic roles (such as truth-tracking) or non-epistemic roles (such as social signaling). We demonstrate that epistemic and non-epistemic beliefs are attributed under (...)
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  12. Suppositional Desires and Rational Choice Under Moral Uncertainty.Nicholas Makins - 2025 - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 12.
    This paper presents a unifying diagnosis of a number of important problems facing existing models of rational choice under moral uncertainty and proposes a remedy. I argue that the problems of (i) severely limited scope, (ii) intertheoretic comparisons, and (iii) 'swamping’ all stem from the way in which values are assigned to options in decision rules such as Maximisation of Expected Choiceworthiness. By assigning values to options under a given moral theory by asking something like “how much do I desire (...)
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  13. Nietzsche's will to health.Ian D. Dunkle - 2018 - Dissertation, Boston University
    Nietzsche repeatedly criticizes traditional morality for having ruined our health. This raises three questions: (1) How does Nietzsche understand human health? (2) Why are health-impacts evaluatively significant? (3) Why should these impacts override the weight of our traditional moral values? By addressing these questions, I bring clarity to Nietzsche’s ethics and new insight to contemporary philosophy of medicine. First, Nietzsche conceives of health as a balance between one’s abilities and the demands placed upon them by one's motivations. One is healthier (...)
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  14. Beyond “moral progress”: A dual-character conception of moral change.Heng Ying - 2025 - Metaphilosophy 56 (2):194-208.
    Philosophers who study moral progress often hold a largely unacknowledged conception of moral history, which one may call the problem-solving conception of moral progress. This conception pictures humans as problem solvers, who make progress by advancing morally significant values in society. This conception, however, overlooks the conflict of values. In response, this paper proposes the dual-character conception of moral change to guide the study of the historical change of morality. This conception tracks a self-limiting structure of moral change— since not (...)
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  15. Nietzsche on Constructing Emotions (draft).Kaitlyn Creasy - manuscript
    In this paper, I argue that Nietzsche thinks emotional experience is constructed. To say that my experience of a particular emotion—for example, compassion—is constructed is to say that any instance of compassion I experience is something of my own making. Specifically, it is a feeling-state fabricated by my mind as it (automatically and unwittingly) interprets the phenomenally experienced bodily feelings to which I find myself subject in a particular circumstance. In other words, any compassion I experience is the result of (...)
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  16. Mexico Unveiled: Resisting Colonial Vices and Other Complaints.Carlos Pereda & Noell Birondo - 2025 - Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. Translated by Noell Birondo.
    Carlos Pereda's "Mexico Unveiled" is a fresh, idiosyncratic synthesis of twentieth-century Mexican philosophy that puts contemporary debates about Mexican identity politics into a critical perspective. In three engaging essays written in a peerless prose style, Pereda considers the persistent influence of European colonialism on Mexican intellectual life, the politics of inclusion, and the changing ideas of what it means to be Mexican. He identifies three "vices"—social habits, customs, and beliefs inherited from European colonialism—that have influenced the development of Mexican national (...)
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  17. Adorno's Secularization of Hope.Benjamin Randolph - 2023 - Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University
    This dissertation reconstructs and defends Theodor W. Adorno’s original conception of hope. I show that Adorno belongs to a tradition in modern philosophy of revising the concept of hope so that it fits the assumptions and expectations of individuals in modern society. I call this process of revision the “secularization of hope,” since the changes to the concept correspond to the general trends of secularizing societies. -/- Adorno, however, argues that there are fundamental impasses to secularizing hope. Traditionally, hope was (...)
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  18. Action Just Is Knowledge.Chi-Keung Chan - 2025 - Philosophical Explorations 28 (1):103-121.
    This article offers a novel interpretation of enacted knowledge through the lens of Wang Yangming’s theory of the unity of knowledge and action. By framing Wang’s concept of knowledge within an enactive model, it advances a holistic perspective that integrates mind, body, and world, as well as knowledge and action, into a unified whole. To bridge historical analysis with contemporary philosophical discourse, this article engages in dialogue with Harvey Lederman’s introspective model, offering a complementary framework that, together, provides a more (...)
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  19. Temporal Factor of Moral Luck.Aleksey Kardash - 2020 - Date Palm Compote 1 (15):151-162.
    The article explores the question of temporal factors of moral luck. The author demonstrates that there are cases where changes in morality can be a factor leading to moral luck. As an illustration, an example is analyzed related to a change in ideas about the morally acceptable and about the necessary grounds for holding one morally responsible. It is concluded that the resultant luck is accompanied by a temporal factor, because not only the result is important, but also how its (...)
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  20. Moral understanding: From virtue to knowledge.Miloud Https://Orcidorg Belkoniene - 2025 - Noûs 59 (1):219-233.
    This paper examines the nature of the specific grasp involved in moral understanding. After discussing Hills's ability account of that central component of moral understanding in light of problematic cases, I argue that moral grasp is best conceived of as a type of knowledge that is grounded in a subject's moral appreciation. I then show how and why the relevant notion of moral appreciation is connected to moral virtues and to one's affective and motivational engagement with moral reasons. Finally, I (...)
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  21. "They Had It Coming!" The Effect of Moral Character on Somatic and Mental Health Judgments.Somogy Varga, Andrew J. Latham & Edouard Machery - forthcoming - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement.
    Prior research has unveiled a pathologization effect where individuals perceived as having bad moral character are more likely to have their conditions labeled as diseases and are less often considered healthy compared to those viewed as having a good moral character. Moreover, these individuals are perceived as less unlucky in their affliction and more deserving of it. This study explores the broader impacts of moral character on such judgments, hypothesizing that these effects reach deeper and extend to both negative and (...)
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  22. (1 other version)The Guise of the Good: Book Précis.Francesco Orsi - forthcoming - Journal of Value Inquiry.
    In The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History I aimed to provide a comprehensive book-length history of a thesis that runs throughout Western philosophy: one can only desire, will, or do something if it appears to her as good or, as the scholastic formulation had it, sub ratione boni – under the aspect or guise of the good. The guise of the good thesis (as now it is commonly referred to, though not everyone likes the label) has earned new (...)
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  23. Learning From Anishinaabe Principles of Relationality, Process, and Reciprocity to Expand the Reach of Positive Psychology and Address Loneliness.Jenae Nelson, Anne Jeffrey, Michael Ferguson & Sarah Schnitker - 2025 - International Journal for Applied Positive Psychology 10 (26).
    This paper reflects on the contrast between the individualistic philosophical underpinnings of positive psychology and the relational underpinnings of a particular indigenous philosophical framework: that of Anishinaabe (North American Indigenous peoples) philosophy. The salience of the global loneliness epidemic and the fact that positive psychology, constrained by its existing assumptions, has struggled to address it effectively make such an exploration of alternatives timely (Van Zyl et al., 2023). Traditional positive psychological tools may be iatrogenic by perpetuating an isolated view of (...)
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  24. Mino-Bimaadiziwin and the Pursuit of Harmony.Jenae Nelson, Anne Jeffrey & Sarah Schnitker - forthcoming - Personality and Social Psychology Review.
    Psychology as a distinct scientific discipline originated within Western contexts, predominantly serving and studying Western populations (the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe). Likewise, dominant theories of well-being revolve around Western ideals such as individualism, self-actualization, personal achievement, and the pursuit of happiness (Krys et al., 2024; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). Furthermore, psychological theories of ‘the good life’ are mostly Aristotelian and Western (Ratchford et al., 2023). Even the selection of what virtues constitute ‘the good life’ reflects (...)
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  25. Stoacı Ruh Öğretisi Bağlamında Duygu ve Akıl İlişkisi / The Relationship Between Emotion and Reason in the Context of Stoic Theory of Soul.İ. Berk Özcangiller - 2019 - Kutadgubilig Felsefe-Bilim Araştırmaları 39:189-212.
    In Ancient Greek, different philosophical teachings agree that the distinctive characteristic of human is reason (logos, ratio). According to Platonist, Aristotelian and Epicurean views, human beings, unlike plants or animals, attain the highest good, i.e., happiness when they live under the guidance of reason without denying their irrational nature. However, Stoicism differs from these teachings with regard to the relation between the irrational and rational nature of humans. The main reason for this difference is due to the difference in Stoic (...)
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  26. (1 other version)Moral psychology: a contemporary introduction.Valerie Tiberius - 2023 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    Released in 2014, this was the first philosophy textbook in moral psychology, introducing students to a range of philosophical topics and debates such as: What is moral motivation? Do reasons for action always depend on desires? Is emotion or reason at the heart of moral judgment? Under what conditions are people morally responsible? Are there self-interested reasons for people to be moral? The Second Edition of Moral Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction, updates its responses to these questions, taking advantage of the (...)
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  27. (1 other version)Attention, Moral Skill, and Algorithmic Recommendation.Nick Schuster & Seth Lazar - 2025 - Philosophical Studies 182 (1):159-184.
    Recommender systems are artificial intelligence technologies, deployed by online platforms, that model our individual preferences and direct our attention to content we’re likely to engage with. As the digital world has become increasingly saturated with information, we’ve become ever more reliant on these tools to efficiently allocate our attention. And our reliance on algorithmic recommendation may, in turn, reshape us as moral agents. While recommender systems could in principle enhance our moral agency by enabling us to cut through the information (...)
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  28. Nietzschean Decadence as Psychic Disunity.Kaitlyn Creasy - 2024 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 55 (2):127-146.
    This article offers an account of Nietzschean decadence as a psycho-physiological condition characterized by a failure of psychic integration—a failure Nietzsche thinks precludes genuine agency, since the psychic integration the decadent fails to achieve is necessary for agency. As part of this account, this article develops an interpretation of an underexplored but crucial form of decadence: repressed decadence. Exploring this variety of Nietzschean decadence both enables us to make sense of the case of Wagner’s alleged decadence and adds nuance to (...)
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  29. A Philosopher goes to the Therapist.Daphne Brandenburg - forthcoming - Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
    ABSTRACT What’s the good of getting angry with a person? Some would argue that angry emotions like indignation or resentment are intrinsically good when they are an apt response. But many think this answer is not fully satisfactory. An increasing number of philosophers add that accusatory anger has value because of what it communicates to the blamee, and because of its downstream cultivating effects on the blamee. Mediators and conflict resolution strategists share an interest with philosophers in the value of (...)
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  30. Reasons to Respond to AI Emotional Expressions.Rodrigo Díaz & Jonas Blatter - 2025 - American Philosophical Quarterly 62 (1):87-102.
    Human emotional expressions can communicate the emotional state of the expresser, but they can also communicate appeals to perceivers. For example, sadness expressions such as crying request perceivers to aid and support, and anger expressions such as shouting urge perceivers to back off. Some contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) systems can mimic human emotional expressions in a (more or less) realistic way, and they are progressively being integrated into our daily lives. How should we respond to them? Do we have reasons (...)
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  31. A Theory of Assessability for Reasonableness.Andrew T. Forcehimes - 2025 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 4 (1):1-37.
    This essay defends an account of what things are assessable for reasonableness and why. On this account, something is assessable for reasonableness if and only if and because it is the functional effect of critical reasoning.
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  32. Modernity, Madness and Hermeneutic Sacrificial.Morteza Shahram - manuscript
    The courage to use one's own reason is an invitation to take more actions---implicating excessive use of agency, even under rampant false consciousness manufactured by mass media and technological priorities. If one does nothing and gains nothing by doing nothing, one is not subject to any evaluation or interpretation. Modernity is an ongoing incessant festival of cruel hermeneutic sacrificial.
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  33. Preventing Sexual Violence: A Behavioral Problem Without a Behaviorally Informed Solution.Roni Porat, Ana Gantman, Seth A. Green, John-Henry Pezzuto & Elizabeth Levy Paluck - 2024 - Psychological Science in the Public Interest 25 (1):4-29.
    What solutions can we find in the research literature for preventing sexual violence, and what psychological theories have guided these efforts? We gather all primary prevention efforts to reduce sexual violence from 1985 to 2018 and provide a bird’s-eye view of the literature. We first review predominant theoretical approaches to sexual-violence perpetration prevention by highlighting three interventions that exemplify the zeitgeist of primary prevention efforts at various points during this time period. We find a throughline in primary prevention interventions: They (...)
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  34. Standing to Praise.Daniel Telech - 2024 - European Journal of Philosophy 32 (4):1235-1254.
    This paper argues that praise is governed by a norm of standing, namely the evaluative commitment condition. Even when the target of praise is praiseworthy and known to be so by the praiser, praise can be inappropriate owing to the praiser’s lacking the relevant evaluative commitment. I propose that uncommitted praisers lack the standing to praise in that, owing to their lack of commitment to the relevant value, they have not earned the right to host the co-valuing that is the (...)
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  35. An Empirical Theory of Practical Reasons and its Use for Practical Philosophy.Christoph Lumer - 2007 - In Christoph Lumer & Sandro Nannini, Intentionality, deliberation and autonomy: the action-theoretic basis of practical philosophy. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 157-186.
    In the first part (sections 2-5) an empirical theory of practical reasons is sketched and defended. It consists of: hypotheses about what intentions are, namely optimality beliefs, (2), hypotheses about how intentions are formed on the basis of probabilistic beliefs and intrinsic desires (3), a pluralist theory about intrinsic desires (4) and a theory about motives for moral action (5). In the second part (sections 6-8) it is argued that normative practical philosophy must rely on empirical theories of practical reasons (...)
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  36. Aesthetic Blame.Robbie Kubala - 2024 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 10 (4).
    One influential tradition holds that blame is a moral attitude: blame is appropriate only when the target of blame has violated a moral norm without excuse or justification. Against this, some have recently argued that agents can be blameworthy for their violation of epistemic norms even when no moral norms are thereby violated. This paper defends the appropriateness of aesthetic blame: agents can be blameworthy for their violation of aesthetic norms as such, where aesthetic norms are the norms of social (...)
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  37. Fear as a Reactive Attitude.Robert Pál-Wallin - 2025 - In Ami Harbin, The Philosophy of Fear: Historical and Interdisciplinary Approaches. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    In the wake of Peter Frederick Strawson’s landmark essay Freedom and Resentment (1962), much of the theorizing about moral responsibility has centered around the reactive attitudes – with a particular emphasis on guilt, resentment, and indignation. Although philosophical interest in previously unexamined reactive attitudes has grown rapidly in recent years, remarkably little has hitherto been said about fear as a candidate reactive attitude. The aim of this chapter is to explore the phenomenon of fearing other human agents qua agents. Drawing (...)
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  38. Nietzschean Decadence as Psychic Disunity.Kaitlyn Creasy - 2024 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 55 (2):127-157.
    This article offers an account of Nietzschean decadence as a psycho-physiological condition characterized by a failure of psychic integration—a failure Nietzsche thinks precludes genuine agency, since the psychic integration the decadent fails to achieve is necessary for agency. As part of this account, this article develops an interpretation of an underexplored but crucial form of decadence: repressed decadence. Exploring this variety of Nietzschean decadence both enables us to make sense of the case of Wagner’s alleged decadence and adds nuance to (...)
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  39. Whose Lives Should We Rescue? / Welche Leben soll man retten? Eine Ethik für medizinische Hilfskonflikte.Annette Dufner - 2021 - Berlin: Suhrkamp.
    This book addresses the medical-ethical dilemma of distributive justice. The focus is on situations where patients compete for limited resources and not everyone can be helped, as was recently observed in connection with the coronavirus. Such conflicts of assistance are characterized by a fundamental tension between the principles of fairness and efficiency. Dufner demonstrates how these opposing principles can be balanced and what such a position means for medicine, for example, in the allocation of donor organs or in triage situations. (...)
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  40. Cooperation, domination: Twin functions of third‐party punishment.Jordan Wylie & A. P. Gantman - 2024 - Social and Personality Psychology Compass 18 (8).
    Rules serve many important functions in society. One such function is to codify, and make public and enforceable, a society's desired prescriptions and proscriptions. This codification means that rules come with predefined punishments administered by third parties. We argue that when we look at how third parties punish rule violations, we see that rules and their punishments often serve dual functions. They support and help to maintain cooperation as it is usually theorized, but they also facilitate the domination of marginalized (...)
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  41. Rethinking Respect.Clara Lingle - forthcoming - Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics.
    This paper develops and defends a paradigm-based explanation of respect. Paradigm-based explanations propose to illuminate subject matter that are basically disunified, by identifying a form of them (“the paradigm”) that is then shown to be explanatorily basic to the subject as a whole. This explanatory strategy is well-suited to the subject of respect, which is widely agreed to encompass two distinct kinds, appraisal respect and recognition respect. Accordingly, the paper sets out to determine which of these two kinds is paradigmatic (...)
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  42. Purity, Moral Trials,and Equanimity.Kwong-Loi Shun - 2010 - Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 40 (2):245-264.
    This paper discusses the phenomenon of ethical purity, namely, the complete orientation of the mind in an ethical direction and the absence of any element that detracts from this ethical orientation. It considers the way this phenomenon is presented in Confucian thought, through ideas such as cheng 誠, xu 虛, and jing 靜. The paper then approaches the phenomenon through a discussion of both the moral trials one goes through in life, and of the state of equanimity that accompanies the (...)
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  43. Carlos Pereda’s Porous Reason: A Critical Introduction.Noell Birondo - 2025 - In Carlos Pereda & Noell Birondo, Mexico Unveiled: Resisting Colonial Vices and Other Complaints. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. Translated by Noell Birondo.
    The philosophical life can be a nomadic life, both in thought and practice. In the engaging and insightful work of the Mexican-Uruguayan philosopher Carlos Pereda, the more important of these is nomadic thought—a mode of thinking that moves and explores, that is not stationary or static, that is not stubbornly hidebound. This is a kind of nomadism that characterizes healthy or epistemically virtuous thinking in general, and that might indeed be indispensable to it. But a nomadism in practice—of migration, or (...)
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  44. Love, Freedom, and Resentment.Samuel Lundquist - 2023 - Dissertation, University of Virginia
    In recent decades, P. F. Strawson’s “Freedom and Resentment” (1962) has had an enormous influence on philosophical views of moral responsibility. Many contemporary views follow Strawson in centering questions of responsibility on the appropriateness of certain attitudes in our interpersonal relations, especially attitudes of blame and anger, rather than on the abstract nature of free will. Strawson’s influence has in many ways been beneficial, but the prevailing Strawsonian views have taken on some of the more dubious tendencies of contemporary moral (...)
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  45. Ethical Health: Managing Our Moral Impulses.Joel Marks - 2025 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    This book argues that moralism is a troublesome emotion of the sort one might seek help with from a psychotherapist. Its focus is on how to disabuse ourselves of the illusion that our values are objective, as well as how to manage the manifestations of its residual presence. This thesis may seem odd at first blush because morality is commonly conceived as an antidote to our baser impulses. Desire makes us want to do something, but the voice of conscience urges (...)
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  46. (1 other version)A very bad wizard: morality behind the curtain.Tamler Sommers - 2016 - New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
    16 Stephen Stich: "I Walk the Line"--17 Joshua Greene and Liane Young: Trolley Problems -- Glossary -- Index.
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  47. Déloger la conscience?: initiation au discernement et a la vie morale aujourd' hui.Vincent G. Makoumayéna - 2019 - Lomé, [Togo]: Éditions Saint-Augustin Afrique.
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  48. Comportamentul moral: interogații jungiene.Oana Elena Lenţa - 2020 - Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană.
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  49. (2 other versions)Noncognitivism in ethics.Mark Andrew Schroeder - 2023 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    According to noncognitivists, when we say that stealing is wrong, what we are doing is more like venting our feelings about stealing or encouraging one another not to steal, than like stating facts about morality. These ideas challenge the core not only of much thinking about morality and metaethics, but also of much philosophical thought about language and meaning. Noncognitivism in Ethics is an outstanding introduction to these theories, ranging from their early history through the latest contemporary developments. Beginning with (...)
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  50. Modern moral psychology: A guide to the terrain.Bertram F. Malle & Philip Robbins - 2025 - In Bertram F. Malle & Philip Robbins, The Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
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