1st Edition

Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences

By Thomas Pölzler Copyright 2018
248 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Are there objective moral truths (things that are morally right or wrong independently of what anybody thinks about them)? To answer this question more and more scholars have recently begun to appeal to evidence from scientific disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, biology, and anthropology. This book investigates this novel scientific approach in a comprehensive, empirically focused,... Read more

1. Introduction



2. Metatheoretical Considerations



3. Folk Moral Realism



4. Moral Disagreement



5. Moral Judgements and Emotions



6. The Evolution of Morality



7. Conclusion

Biography

Thomas Pölzler is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Graz, Austria. He mainly works on moral psychology and metaethics. His articles have been published in journals such as Synthese, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, and South African Journal of Philosophy.

"Pölzler has produced an outstandingly useful book. It is clearly written and painstakingly researched . . . He clearly identifies the empirical commitments of various science-based arguments for moral realism and moral anti-realism; he evaluates scientific studies that have been thought to probe these commitments; and he suggests how to improve these studies . . . Anyone working on these topics will want to read the sections relevant to their own interests."Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews