In this paper, findings from research in neuroscience of morality will be reviewed to consider the purposes moral education. Particularly, I focus on two main themes neuroscience, novel neuroimaging and experimental investigations, Bayesian learning mechanism. First, examine how studies contributed our understanding psychological mechanisms associated with functioning while addressing methodolo...

G. E. Moore’s diatribe against the naturalistic fallacy in 1903 set the stage for most of twentieth-century moral philosophy. The main protagonists over the next sixty years were intuitionists and emotivists, both of whom were convinced by Moore that empirical science is irrelevant to moral philosophy and common moral beliefs. Even in the 1970s and 1980s, when a wider array of moral theories en...

Moral phenomenology is (roughly) the study of those features of occurrent mental states with moral significance which are accessible through direct introspection, whether or not such states possess phenomenal character – a what-itis-likeness. In this paper, as the title indicates, we introduce and make prefatory remarks about moral phenomenology and its significance for ethics. After providing ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although there is extensive literature in other health care fields about the ability to make ethical judgements (moral reasoning), there is a paucity of research addressing the moral reasoning of practising physical therapists. The purposes of this research were to 1) identify the types of moral reasoning used by practising physical therapists as measured by the Defining ...

I submit that epistemic progress in key areas of contemporary academic philosophy has been compromised by politically correct (“PC”) ideology. First, guided by an evolutionary account of ideology, results from social and cognitive psychology and formal philosophical methods, I expose evidence for political bias in contemporary Western academia and sketch a formalization for the contents of beli...

Davis’ essential claim is that moral theory, however useful to moral theorists and applied ethicists, is of value neither to students in classes in practical and professional ethics nor to practitioners, such as physicians, lawyers, or engineers. For students and practitioners, the benefits of bringing in moral theory are not worth the costs. Davis finds a number of types of cost in my approach...

Medicine is explicitly committed to the traditional values of empathy, compassion, and altruism. Along with the “middle” principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and respect for autonomy, these are among the values which form the ethical framework by which physician conduct is evaluated. But how is empathy to be understood as fundamental to the practice of ethical medicine? Should it...

A review of Morals, Reason, and philosophy is (in)famous, the combined force of their Animals by Steven F. Sapontzis work has been to put apologists for theory's traditional (Philadelphia: Temple University pretensions somewhat on the defensive. The critics' Press, 1987) positive views about the form of moral philosophy sans moral theory, have, however, been even more varied (and rather vaguer)...

this research is a new attempt in order to study the effect of evolution theory in the dimension of empirical ethics. in the contemporary area the evolutionary ethics is in the three branches: descriptive, prescriptive and meta-ethics. the descriptive evolutionary ethics tries to modify human’s ethical believes in the evolutionary aspect and achieves more share from two others part in this grou...