Preface
Part One: Moral Psychology and Moral Philosophy
1. What Is Moral Psychology?
* What is moral psychology?
* Distinguishing the questions
* Distinguishing psychological states
* Structure and aims of the book:
1. What Are Philosophers Doing Here?
* Moral Agents or Blobs of Flesh
* Moral Realism and the Challenge from Evolution
* Responses to the Challenge
* Moral Psychology and Moral Philosophy
Part Two: Motivation and Moral Motivation: The Basics
2. Moral Motivation: what it is and what it isn't
* Moral Theories and Moral Motivation
* The Challenge of Psychological Egoism
* Psychological Egoism and Empirical Research
* Taking Stock
3. Desires and Reasons
* Some Background Distinctions
* Reasons internalism and externalism
* The Humean Theory of Motivation
* Taking Stock
Part Three: Moral Motivation
4. Emotion & Moral Judgment
* What is an emotion?
* Emotions and Moral Judgment
* Amoralists, Psychopaths and the Debate Between Moral Judgment
Internalism and Externalism
* Taking Stock
5. Sentimentalism and Rationalism:
* Rationalism and Sophisticated Sentimentalism
* The Kantian Challenge to Sophisticated Sentimentalism
* The Empirical Threat to Rationalism
* Taking Stock
6. Virtue
* What kind of state is a virtue?
* Are there any virtues?: The empirical challenge
* Defending Virtue
* Taking Stock
Part Four: Agency and Moral Responsibility
7. The Psychology of the Responsible Agent
* Methodology
* Real Self Theories
* Normative Competence
* Are we Competent?: Challenges from Psychology
8. Moral Responsibility, Free Will and Determinism
* Free Will and Determinism
* Intuitions and Experimental Philosophy
* Libertarianism and the Challenge from Neuroscience
* Can I Be Excused?
Part Five: Three Big Questions
9. Should I be moral?: Well-being and the good life
* Prudential Reasons and 'Good For'
* Theories of Well-Being
* Psychological Evidence for the Well-being - Morality Link
* Conclusion
10. How do we know what is morally right?: Moral psychology and moral knowledge
* The Attack on Intuitions: Biases and Trolley-ology
* Intuitions, Intuitionism and Reflective Equilibrium
11. Can you get an ought from an is?
* Is and Ought: A Complex Relationship
* Reducing Ought to Is
12. Final Thoughts
