Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms

Introduction; Bridging the Is-Ought-Dichotomy.- Part I: What is Empirically Informed Ethics?.- Markus Christen, Mark Alfano’ Outlining the Field – A Research Program for Empirically Informed Ethics.- Johannes Fischer; What Kind of Ethics? – How the Understanding of the Fields Affects the Role of Empirical Research on Morality for Ethics.-

Adriano Naves de Brito; Moral Behavior and Moral Sentiments – On the Natural Basis for Moral Values.- Part II: Investigating Origins of Morality.- Carel P. van Schaik, Judith Burkart, Adrian Jaeggi, Claudia Rudolf von Rohr; Morality as a Biological Adaptation – an Evolutionary Model based on the Lifestyle of Human Foragers.- Sarah F. Brosnan; Precursors of Morality – Evidence for Moral Behaviors in Non-Human Primates.- Jesse J. Prinz; Where Do Morals Come From? – A Plea for a Cultural Approach.- Part III: Assessing the Moral Agent.- Carmen Tanner, Markus Christen; Moral Intelligence – A Framework for Understanding Moral Competences.- Kristin Prehn, Hauke Heekeren; Moral Brains – Possibilities and Limits of the Neuroscience of Ethics.- Shaun Nichols, Mark Timmons, Theresa Lopez; Using Experiments in Ethics – Ethical Conservatism and the Psychology of Moral Luck.- Part IV: Justifications between Rational Reflections and Intuitions.- Ghislaine J.M.W. van Thiel, Johannes J.M. van Delden; Intuitions in Moral Reasoning – Normative Empirical Reflective Equilibrium as a Model for Substantial Justification of Moral Claims.- Bert Musschenga; Moral Expertise – The Role of Expert Judgments and Expert Intuitions in the Constitution of (Local) Ethical Theories.- Erich H. Witte &, Tobias Gollan; Social Variability in Moral Judgments – Analyzing the Justification of Actions using the Prescriptive Attribution Concept.- Part V: Practicing Morality and Ethics in the Real World; Darcia Narvaez, Daniel Lapsley.- Becoming a Moral Person – Moral Development and Moral Character Education as a Result of Social Interactions.- Markus Huppenbauer, Carmen Tanner; Ethical Leadership – How to Integrate Empirical and Ethical Aspects for Promoting Moral Decision Making in Business Practice.- Tanja Krones; The Empirical Turn in Bioethics – From Boundary Work to a Context-Sensitive, Transdisciplinary Field of Inquiry.- Critical Postscript.- Antti Kauppinen; Ethics and Empirical Psychology – Critical Remarks to Empirically Informed Ethics.- References.- Index.- Authors