Moral Motivation

Timothy Schroeder; Adina L. Roskies; Shaun Nichols

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582143.003.0004

Moral Motivation

Timothy Schroeder
, Adina L. Roskies
, Shaun Nichols

Philosophy

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Abstract

To understand the nature of moral motivation, it is important first to understand the nature of motivation. This chapter begins with a discussion of motivation itself and then sketches four possible theories of distinctively moral motivation: instrumentalist, cognitivist, sentimentalist, and personalist theories. It then evaluates these theories in light of recent evidence from neuroscience and allied fields.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Moral Psychology Handbook
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191594496
ISBN (Print)	9780199582143
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582143.003.0004
State	Published - Sep 1 2010

Keywords

Cognitivism
Desire
Instrumentalism
Moral worth
Motivation
Neurophysiology
Pain
Personalism
Reward
Sentimentalism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Arts and Humanities

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