Playing Around With Morality: Introducing the Special Issue on “Morality Play”

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Moral psychology is a rapidly growing field with two principle lineages. The main line began with Jean Piaget and includes developmental psychologists who have studied the acquisition of moral concepts and reasoning. The alternative line began in the 1990s with a new synthesis of evolutionary, neurological, and social-psychological research in which the central phenomena are moral emotions and ...

What’s Wrong with Morality?

Why do moral people so often fail to act morally? Standard scientific answers point to poor moral judgment (based on deficient character development, reason, or intuition) or to situational pressure. I consider a third possibility: a relative lack of truly moral motivation and emotion. What has been taken for moral motivation is often instead a subtle form of egoism. Recent research provides co...

The Changing National Health Service: Market-Based Reform and Morality; Comment on “Morality and Markets in the NHS”

This commentary explores some of the issues raised by Gilbert et al.short communication, Morality and Markets in the NHS. The increasing role of market mechanisms and the changing types of healthcare providers together with the use of choice and competition to drive improvements in quality in the National Health Service (NHS), all have important ethical implications. In order for the NHS to con...

Sexual Morality

This is one of the first batch in a series called 'Philosophy at Work', designed to show contemporary philosophy being fruitfully applied to practical problems. Mr. Atkinson's first concern is to examine arguments which are commonly used in defence of, and in opposition to, such things as preand extra-marital intercourse, contraception, artificial insemination, divorce, homosexuality. He unrave...