The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology

Includes bibliographical references.

The quest for the boundaries of morality / Stephen Stich -- The normative sense : What is universal? What varies? / Edouard Machery and Elizabeth O'Neill -- Normative practices of other animals / Sarah Vincent, Rebecca Ring, and Kristin Andrews -- The neurological basis of moral psychology / Guy Kahane and Joanna Demaree-Cotton -- Moral development in humans / Julia Van de Vondervoort and Kiley Hamlin -- Moral learning / Shaun Nichols -- Moral reasoning and emotion / Joshua May and Victor Kumar -- Moral intuitions and heuristics / Piotr M. Patrzyk -- The evolution of moral cognition / Leda Cosmides, Ricardo Andrés Guzmán, and John Tooby -- Ancient and medieval moral epistemology / Matthias Perkams -- Modern moral epistemology / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Contemporary moral epistemology / Rob Shaver -- The denial of moral knowledge / Richard Joyce -- Nihilism and the epistemic profile of moral judgment / Jonas Olson -- Relativism and pluralism in moral epistemology / David Wong -- Rationalism and intuitionism : assessing three views about the psychology of moral judgment / Christian Miller -- Moral perception / Robert Audi -- Moral intuition / Matthew Bedke -- Foundationalism and coherentism in moral epistemology / Noah Lemos -- Methods, goals, and data in moral theorizing / John Bengson, Terence Cuneo, and Russ Shafer-Landau -- Moral theory and its role in everyday moral thought and action / Brad Hooker -- Moral knowledge as know-how / Jennifer Cole Wright -- Group moral knowledge / Deborah Tollefsen and Christopher Lucibella -- Moral epistemology and liberation movements / Lauren Woomer -- Moral expertise / Alison Hills -- Moral epistemology and professional codes of ethics / Alan Goldman -- Teaching virtue / Nancy Snow and Scott Beck -- Decision-making under moral-uncertainty / Andrew Sepielli -- Public policy and philosophical accounts of desert / Steven Sverdlik -- Religion and moral knowledge / C. A. J. Coady.

"The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology brings together philosophers, cognitive scientists, developmental and evolutionary psychologists, animal ethologists, intellectual historians and educators to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the prospects for moral knowledge ever assembled in print. The book's thirty chapters feature leading experts describing the nature of moral thought, its evolution, childhood development and neurological realization. Various forms of moral skepticism are addressed along with the historical development of ideals of moral knowledge and their role in law, education, legal policy, and other areas of social life. Highlights include: - Analyses of moral cognition and moral learning by leading cognitive scientists - Accounts of the normative practices of animals by expert animal ethologists - An overview of the evolution of cooperation by preeminent evolutionary psychologists - Sophisticated treatments of moral skepticism, relativism, moral uncertainty, and know-how by renowned philosophers - Scholarly accounts of the development of western moral thinking by eminent intellectual historians - Careful analyses of the role played by conceptions of moral knowledge in political liberation movements, religious institutions, criminal law, secondary education, and professional codes of ethics articulated by cutting-edge social and moral philosophers"-- Provided by publisher.