Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms

Chapter 1 Outlining the Field – A Research Program for Empirically Informed Ethics

Chapter 2 What Kind of Ethics? – How Understanding the Field Affects the Role of Empirical Research on Morality for Ethics

Chapter 3 Moral Behavior and Moral Sentiments – On the Natural Basis for Moral Values

Chapter 4 Morality as a Biological Adaptation – An Evolutionary Model Based on the Lifestyle of Human Foragers

Chapter 6 Where Do Morals Come From? – A Plea for a Cultural Approach

Chapter 7 Moral Intelligence – A Framework for Understanding Moral Competences

Chapter 8 Moral Brains – Possibilities and Limits of the Neuroscience of Ethics

Chapter 9 Using Experiments in Ethics – Ethical Conservatism and the Psychology of Moral Luck

Chapter 10 Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms

Chapter 11 Moral Expertise – The Role of Expert Judgments and Expert Intuitions in the Construction of (Local) Ethical Theories

Chapter 12 Social Variability in Moral Judgments – Analyzing the Justification of Actions Using the Prescriptive Attribution Concept

Chapter 13 Becoming a Moral Person – Moral Development and Moral Character Education as a Result of Social Interactions

Chapter 14 Ethical Leadership – How to Integrate Empirical and Ethical Aspects for Promoting Moral Decision Making in Business Practice

Chapter 15 The Empirical Turn in Bioethics – From Boundary Work to a Context-Sensitive, Transdisciplinary Field of Inquiry

Chapter 16 Ethics and Empirical Psychology – Critical Remarks to Empirically Informed Ethics