Being Amoral: Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-262-02791-5
Verlag: MIT PR

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 583 g

Reihe: Philosophical Psychopathology

Investigations of specific moral dysfunctions or deficits that shed light on the capacities required for moral agency. Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatry and yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy by considering the question of what psychopaths lack. The contributors investigate specific moral dysfunctions or deficits, shedding light on the capacities people need to be moral by examining cases of real people who seem to lack those capacities. The volume proceeds from the basic assumption that psychopathy is not characterized by a single deficit—for example, the lack of empathy, as some philosophers have proposed—but by a range of them. Thus contributors address specific deficits that include impairments in rationality, language, fellow-feeling, volition, evaluation, and sympathy. They also consider such issues in moral psychology as moral motivation, moral emotions, and moral character; and they examine social aspects of psychopathic behavior, including ascriptions of moral responsibility, justification of moral blame, and social and legal responses to people perceived to be dangerous. As this volume demonstrates, philosophers will be better equipped to determine what they mean by “the moral point of view” when they connect debates in moral philosophy to the psychiatric notion of psychopathy, which provides some guidance on what humans need in order be able to feel the normative pull of morality. And the empirical work done by psychiatrists and researchers in psychopathy can benefit from the conceptual clarifications offered by philosophy.Contributors
Gwen Adshead, Piers Benn, John Deigh, Alan Felthous, Kerrin Jacobs, Heidi Maibom, Eric Matthews, Henning Sass, Thomas Schramme, Susie Scott, David Shoemaker, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Matthew Talbert

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schramme, Thomas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schramme, Thomas

Sass, Henning

Felthous, Alan

Matthews, Eric

Maibom, Heidi

Adshead, Gwen

Jacobs, Kerrin

Benn, Piers

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter

Deigh, John

Shoemaker, David

Talbert, Matthew

Scott, Susie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Kriminalpsychologie, Forensische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Schramme, Thomas
Thomas Schramme is Professor of Philosophy at Hamburg University.

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Philosophy Department and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He edited the previous volumes in Moral Psychology.

Schramme, Thomas
Thomas Schramme is Professor of Philosophy at Hamburg University.

Thomas Schramme is Professor of Philosophy at Hamburg University.

Thomas Schramme is Professor of Philosophy at Hamburg University.

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Philosophy Department and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He edited the previous volumes in Moral Psychology.

Thomas Schramme is Professor of Philosophy at Hamburg University.

Thomas Schramme is Professor of Philosophy at Hamburg University.