Theology and the science of moral action : virtue ethics, exemplarity, and cognitive neuroscience / edited by James A. Van Slyke ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

American Academy of Religion. Conference (2009 : Chicago, Ill.)

Contributor:

Van Slyke, James A.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Religion

Routledge studies in religion ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtues--Congresses.

Virtues.

Ethics--Congresses.

Ethics.

Example--Congresses.

Example.

Cognitive neuroscience--Congresses.

Cognitive neuroscience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in scientific approaches to the study of morality. Once understood to be the domain of moral psychology, the newer approach to morality is largely interdisciplinary, driven in no small part by developments in behavioural economics and evolutionary biology, as well as advances in neuroscientific imaging capabilities, among other fields. To date, scientists studying moral cognition and behaviour have paid little attention to virtue theory, while virtue theorists have yet to acknowledge the new research results emerging from the new science of morali

Contents:

Theology and the Science of Moral Action: Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I A Science of Morality: A Place for Exemplars and Virtue; 1 Empirical Approaches to Virtue Science: Observing Exemplarity in the Lab; 2 Virtue, Science, and Exemplarity: An Overview; 3 Relating Political Theory and Virtue Science: A Reflection on Human Dignity, Empathy, and the Capabilities Approach; 4 A Modest Polemic for Virtuous Pride; Part II Exemplarity, Science, and Virtue: Philosophical Perspectives

5 Exemplarism: Some Considerations6 Naturalizing Moral Exemplarity: Contemporary Science and Human Nature; 7 The Moral Authority of Exemplars; 8 Neuroscience, the Trolley Problem, and Moral Virtue; Part III Exemplarity, Science, and Virtue: Theological Perspectives; 9 Hardwired for Drama? Theological Speculations on Cognitive Science, Empathy, and Moral Exemplarity; 10 Ethics, Exemplarity, and Atonement; 11 Types of Love and Types of Exemplars: Implications for Virtue Science; 12 The Virtues and Intellectual Disability: Explorations in the (Cognitive) Sciences of Moral Formation; Contributors

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-203-10174-X

1-283-84308-0

1-136-23673-2

9780203101742

OCLC:

821173923