Moral Psychology

<i>Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings</i> is the first book to bring together the most significant contemporary and historical works on the topic from both philosophy and psychology. <ul> <li>Provides a comprehensive introduction to moral psychology, which is the study of psychological mechanisms and processes underlying ethics and morality</li> <li>Unique in bringing together contemporary texts by philosophers, psychologists and other cognitive scientists with foundational works from both philosophy and psychology</li> <li>Approaches moral psychology from an empirically informed perspective</li> <li>Explores a wide range of topics from passion and altruism to virtue and responsibility</li> <li>Editorial introductions to each section explain the background of and connections between the selections</li> </ul>