Ethics and Attachment- Front Cover; Half Title; Philosophy & Psychoanalysis Book Series; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; The theory in a nutshell; Acknowledgments; PART 1: Conceptual and empirical foundations; Chapter 1: Why we need a new psychology; Emotion versus cognition; The interaction between affect and cognition; Moral psychology and moral judgment; How the emotion/cognition debate has haunted moral psychology; The social intuitionist model; Moral sentimentalism; Dual-process theory of moral judgment; A critique of sentimentalism; Psychopathy
Moral developmentMoral judgments and aesthetic values: the un-specificity of sentimentalist accounts; Structural theories of moral judgment; Chapter 2: Morality and early interactions: main theories; John Bowlby: attachment theory and its moral applications; Donald Winnicott: holding environment and the origins of morality; Carol Gilligan: ethics of care; Narvaez's triune ethics theory; Patricia Churchland: what neuroscience tells us about morality; Conclusions; Chapter 3: The moral skills of infants; Intentionality; Moral judgments in preverbal infants; Moral evaluation among infants
Understanding in-group principleInfants and authority; The infant/caregiver dyad; Conclusion; PART 2: The attachment approach to moral judgment; Chapter 4: The building blocks of moral judgment; How are moral situations represented in our mind?; The dyad-dominance effect of moral situations; What do moral situations have in common?; Moral situations in context; Moral judgments are observer-relative and constrained by our cognitions; Moral judgment is intuitive and unconscious; The dyad as a whole; Chapter 5: Decoding moral situations
Evaluating the child-related characteristics and the adult-related characteristics of each partyChild- and adult-related schemes; Evaluating the relationships between conflicting parties (₂!; The imposition of child-schema and adult-schema characteristics on facts concerning the dyad; Note; Chapter 6: Variance and consistency in moral judgment; The two types of dispute relating to moral dilemmas; Dyad-based intuitions take precedence over moral principles; The dispute over capital punishment; A principled moral debate; Note; Chapter 7: The like-me criterion and turned-off dyads
The subjective component of moral judgmentTurned-off dyads; We are all psychopaths: the primacy of the parameters over the content; The animal world and us; Cultural differences with respect to the treatment of mammals; Turned-off dyads and moral principles; Chapter 8: The prototype of evil; Evil as prototype; Why is it so hard to define "evil"?; Four salient features of evil; Evil as cognitive bias; The banality of evil: an attempt to alter the computation of evil?; Epilogue; References; Index
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