Political Realism and Dirty Hands: Value Pluralism, Moral Conflict and Public Ethics

Moral Enhancement and Political Realism

The possibility of morally enhancing the behavior of individuals by means of drugs and genetic engineering has been the object of intense philosophical discussion over the last few years. However, although moral enhancement may turn out to be useful to promote cooperation in some areas of human interaction, it will not promote cooperation in the domain of international relations in those areas ...

Sentimentalist Pluralism: Moral Psychology and Philosophical Ethics*

When making moral judgments, people are typically guided by a plurality of moral rules. These rules owe their existence to human emotions but are not simply equivalent to those emotions. And people’s moral judgments ought to be guided by a plurality of emotion-based rules. The view just stated combines three positions on moral judgment: [1] moral sentimentalism, which holds that sentiments play...

Moral realism as moral motivation: The impact of meta-ethics on everyday decision-making Running Head: Moral realism as motivation

*** In Press at Journal of Experimental Social Psychology *** Moral realism as moral motivation: The impact of meta-ethics on everyday decision-making Running Head: Moral realism as motivation Liane Young and AJ Durwin Department of Psychology, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Liane Young, Department of ...

Agency and Moral Realism

The Lawyer's Dirty Hands