Building the Moral Community (eBook)

Radical Naturalism and Emergence

David W. Chambers (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
364 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2620-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Building the Moral Community is an exploration of naturalistic ethics, offering a modified classical analytic philosophy exploration of morality that is consistent with emerging thinking in psychology, neurobiology, game theory, and self-adjusting systems.

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Building the Moral Community: Radical Naturalism and Emergence demonstrates how very simple models of moral engagements based on natural, incomplete, value-laden frames of the world can lead to general moral progress for the human community. All moral behavior affects more than one person, which means that the moral community is more than the sum of the individuals included in it.David W. Chambers argues that there is no ethically detached and superior position from which to operate, and that such claims are focused on ethics, not on acting morally. Therefore, he cautions against mistaking theories of ethics composed on statements about what is good and right for actual moral behavior that moves broadly and inevitably toward a better world.This book explores naturalistic ethics, offering a modified classical analytic philosophy exploration of morality that is consistent with emerging thinking in psychology, neurobiology, game theory, and self-adjusting systems.

Autor

David W. Chambers is professor of dental education at the University of the Pacific. He has been a visiting scholar in philosophy at Cambridge University, University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics exploring moral issues.

Inhalt

PrefaceChapter 1: Morality and EthicsChapter 2: Moral EngagementsChapter 3: Simple Moral ChoiceChapter 4: Complex Moral ChoiceChapter 5: Simple Moral EngagementChapter 6: Complex Moral EngagementChapter 7: FramingChapter 8: Common Sense PatternsChapter 9: Reframing and BargainingChapter 10: Moral CommunityChapter 11: Failure to EngageChapter 12: Moral ProgressAppendix: Inventory of Engagement

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 46 Illustrations including: - 7 Black & White Illustrations; - 12 Tables; - 27 Text Boxes.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: Decision Theory • ethics • Game Theory • moral agency • Moral Philosophy • Philosophy of mind • Psychology • reciprocal moral agency • Social Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2620-9 / 1498526209
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2620-3 / 9781498526203