Moral Psychology and Naturalized Ethics

Last update: 21 Apr 2025 21:17
First version: 10 October 2017

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These may or may not have anything to do with each other.

See also:
• Ethics, Game Theory and Biology
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Nietzsche
• Spinoza
• Thought and Society

Recommended:
• John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct
• Raymond Boudon, "The Sense of Values" [Online. Interesting comments on "naturalistic" theories of values.]
• Robert H. Frank, Passions within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions
• Michael Tomasello, Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny

To read:
• Simon Blackburn, Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning
• William D. Casebeer, Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition
• Karen A. Cerulo, Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong
• John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, S. J., Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility
• Robert H. Frank, What Price the Moral High Ground? Ethical Dilemmas in Competitive Environments
• Norman Frolich and Joe A. Oppenheimer, Choosing Justice: An Experimental Approach to Ethical Theory [Alternate link]
• Bernard Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What To Do
• Walter Glannon (ed.), Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics
• Webb Keane, Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories
• Jorie Koster-Hale, Rebecca Saxe, James Dungan, and Liane L. Young, "Decoding moral judgments from neural representations of intentions", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 110 (2013): 5648--5653
• Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Laura Schulz, Joshua Tenenbaum, and Fiery Cushman, "The logic of universalization guides moral judgment", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 117 (2020): 26158--26169
• Bertram F. Malle, "Moral Judgments", Annual Review of Psychology 72 (2021): 293--318
• Jorge Moll, Frank Krueger, Roland Zahn, Matteo Pardini, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, and Jordan Grafman, "Human fronto-mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 103 (2006): 15623--15628
• Shaun Nichols, Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment
• Larry P. Nucci, Education in the Moral Domain
• Alvin E. Roth, "Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets", Journal of Economic Perspectives forthcoming (2007) [PDF preprint. Thanks to reader Nicolas D. P. for pointing this out to me.]
• William A. Rottschaefer, The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency
• Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology
  1. The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness
  2. The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity
  3. The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development
  4. Free Will and Moral Responsibility
  5. Virtue and Character
• Adam Smith, The Theory of the Moral Sentiments
• Ervin Staub, The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children, Adults, and Groups Help and Harm Others
• Michael Tomasello, A Natural History of Human Morality
• Elliot Turiel, The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context, and Conflict
• Tom R. Tyler, Why People Obey the Law
• Catherine Wilson, Moral Animals: Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory [Review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews]
• Paul J. Zak (ed.), Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy