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Being Amoral : Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophical Psychopathology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (344 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262320382
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Being AmoralDDC classification:
  • 174.2/9689
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Heterogeneous Construct of Psychopathy -- I Moral Capacities and Incapacities -- 3 Psychopathy and Moral Rationality -- 4 Without Fellow Feeling -- 5 The Words but Not the Music: Empathy, Language Deficits, and Psychopathy -- 6 Psychopathic Comportment and Moral Incapacity -- 7 Not Caring: Sociopaths and the Suffering of Others -- II Issues in Moral Psychology -- 8 Do Psychopaths Refute Internalism? -- 9 Psychopathic Resentment -- 10 Being a (A-)Moral Person and Caring about Morality -- III Social Aspects: Blame, Transgression, and Dangerousness -- 11 Psychopathy, Responsibility, and the Moral/Conventional Distinction -- 12 The Significance of Psychopathic Wrongdoing -- 13 Contesting Dangerousness, Risk, and Treatability: A Sociological View of Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) -- 14 Conclusion: The Many Faces of Psychopathy -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: Investigations of specific moral dysfunctions or deficits that shed light on the capacities required for moral agency.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Heterogeneous Construct of Psychopathy -- I Moral Capacities and Incapacities -- 3 Psychopathy and Moral Rationality -- 4 Without Fellow Feeling -- 5 The Words but Not the Music: Empathy, Language Deficits, and Psychopathy -- 6 Psychopathic Comportment and Moral Incapacity -- 7 Not Caring: Sociopaths and the Suffering of Others -- II Issues in Moral Psychology -- 8 Do Psychopaths Refute Internalism? -- 9 Psychopathic Resentment -- 10 Being a (A-)Moral Person and Caring about Morality -- III Social Aspects: Blame, Transgression, and Dangerousness -- 11 Psychopathy, Responsibility, and the Moral/Conventional Distinction -- 12 The Significance of Psychopathic Wrongdoing -- 13 Contesting Dangerousness, Risk, and Treatability: A Sociological View of Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) -- 14 Conclusion: The Many Faces of Psychopathy -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

Investigations of specific moral dysfunctions or deficits that shed light on the capacities required for moral agency.

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