The Social Turn in Moral Psychology

Name: The Social Turn in Moral Psychology
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Mark Fedyk (Assistant Professor, Mount Allison University)

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MIT Press
13 January 2017

Philosophy of mind; Ethics & moral philosophy; Social, group or collective psychology

Series: The Social Turn in Moral Psychology

An argument that moral psychology can benefit from closer integration with the social sciences, offering a novel ethical theory bridging the two.

In this book, Mark Fedyk offers a novel analysis of the relationship between moral psychology and allied fields in the social sciences. Fedyk shows how the social sciences can be integrated with moral philosophy, argues for the benefits of such an integration, and offers a new ethical theory that can be used to bridge research between the two.

Fedyk argues that moral psychology should take a social turn, investigating the psychological processes that motivate patterns of social behavior defined as ethical using normative information extracted from the social sciences. He points out methodological problems in conventional moral psychology, particularly the increasing methodological and conceptual inconsilience with both philosophical ethics and evolutionary biology. Fedyk's ""causal theory of ethics"" is designed to provide moral psychology with an ethical theory that can be used without creating tension between its scientific practice and the conceptual vocabulary of philosophical ethics. His account aims both to redirect moral psychology toward more socially realistic questions about human life and to introduce philosophers to a new form of ethical naturalism-a way of thinking about how to use different fields of scientific research to answer some of the traditional questions that are at the heart of ethics.

By: Mark Fedyk (Assistant Professor Mount Allison University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780262035569
ISBN 10: 0262035561
Series: The Social Turn in Moral Psychology
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 13 January 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Fedyk is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Mount Allison University.

Reviews for The Social Turn in Moral Psychology

Mark Fedyk is on a mission to correct the way we incorporate empirical research, especially social scientific research, into moral psychology and ethics. For those interested in philosophical methodology, many chapters, if not the entire book, are essential reading. —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews