An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation maintains that current models of moral deliberation do not effectively deal with contemporary moral complexity because they are based on an inadequate theory of moral cognition. Drawing on research in neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, social theory, and dual process cognitive theory and on the work of William James, this book develops a theory of moral cognition which provides a major role for aesthetic sensibilities and upon this theory develops a robust model of moral deliberation. This model portrays moral deliberation as a back and forth movement between intuitive and analytic cognitions, which constructs narrative scenarios and then assesses and revises them according to aesthetic sensibilities.
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1—The Problems of Contemporary Moral Deliberation
Five Styles of Moral Deliberation
An Inadequate Model of Human Cognition
2-Human Embodiment and Moral DeliberationStumbling Over Embodiment
Evolutionary Theory and Humanity
Brain Structure and Brain FunctionNeurotransmitters–Rewards And Aversions
Emotion
Non-Conscious CognitionFundamental Routines of Survival
Embodiment and Ethics
3-Human Sociability and Moral Deliberation
The Ability to be Social
The Dynamics of Human Socialization
Evolution and Social Groups
Social Deliberation about Ethics4-Dual Process Theories and Moral Deliberation
History of Decision Making Theory
Dual Process Theories of Cognition
Dual Process Theory and Moral Decision Making
The Problems of Current Dual Process Moral Theory
5-Type 2 Moral CognitionDeductive Reasoning
Analysis
Induction
Coherence-Based ReasoningAssessment of Type 2 Moral Reasoning
6-Type 1 Moral Cognition
Characterization of Type 1 Processing William James and Type 1 Cognition A Jamesian Model of Moral Cognition Aesthetic Moral Cognition7-Narrative And Moral DeliberationType 2 Processes and Narrative Interpretation
Type 2 Narrative and Applied EthicsType 1 Narrative Construction and Interpretation
Type 1 Moral Deliberation Using Narratives
8 — Dual Processes Interacting in Moral Deliberation
Reflective Equilibrium
Perceptual Equilibrium
William James, Conceptual Translation, and the Mediating Attitude
A Dual Process Model of Moral Deliberation
An Abbreviated Illustration of the Model The Importance of Aesthetic Sensibilities9-Conclusion Endnotes Selected BibliographyIndex