Psychology as a Moral Science Perspectives on Normativity /

• Main Author: Brinkmann, Svend (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Philosophy and science.; Experiential research.; Psychology Research.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Psychology.

What does morality have to do with psychology in a value-neutral, postmodern world? According to a provocative new book, everything. Taking exception with current ideas in the mainstream (including cultural, evolutionary, and neuropsychology) as straying from the discipline’s ethical foundations, Ps...

Table of Contents:

• Dedication
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Psychology and morality: An interpretive-pragmatic view
• Part I: The Place of Value in a World of Psychology
• The psychological social imaginary
• Changing psychologies, subjectivities, and moralities
• How psychology makes up people
• Part II: An Inescapable Morality
• Facts, values, and the naturalistic fallacy in psychology
• Moral realism
• Moral practices
• Conclusions
• References.