Moral Confirmation vs. Moral Explanation: A Tale of Two Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Sarah McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Moral Explanation

Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 15

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Moral Realism ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Moral Explanation ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Selection Of

This series is devoted to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersection of ethical theory and metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The chapters included in the series provide a basis for understanding recent developments in the field. Chapters in this volume explore topics including the nature of reasons, the tenability of moral realism, moral explanation and grounding, and a variety of epistemological challenges.

Sharing Ecosystems

On Borders ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 249-272
Author(s):  
Paulina Ochoa Espejo
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Water ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Water Basin ◽  
Moral Explanation ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S

This chapter offers a moral explanation for why bordering states should share the governance of transborder rivers on the basis of place-specific duties; the argument can also be extended to other natural resources. The chapter offers a view of water governance that mediates between a universalist view based on a human right to water and an exclusivist view grounded on the principle of self-determination. The chapter offers the example of the river Grande (Bravo) on the U.S.-Mexico border, and argues that the obligation to share the governance of transborder rivers comes from duties to the complex systems that sustain life (including human life) in the natural water basin. These obligations overlap and crisscross the current border.

Moral Explanation

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad Majors
Keyword(s):  
Moral Explanation

scholarly journals A Content Analysis of Four Explanatory Models of the Moral Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-418
Author(s):  
Ştefania Bumbuc
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Interactive Methods ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Moral Explanation ◽  
Moral Case

AbstractNumerous studies have focused on identifying the stages of ethical decision process and the factors that can influence it, aiming to provide tools for educators’ struggle of improving the moral profile of the students. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the four explanatory theoretical models of moral development, in order to notice the relationship between the rational and the emotional components of personality during the moral decision-making process and to highlight their impact on educational process. It is resumed a qualitative research that was developed using the Atlas.ti software. The results sustain the empirical observation that educators change the focus of the moral explanation, moral story and moral conversation towards the more interactive methods, like moral case study and moral exercise.

An Approach to the Islamization of Social and Behavioral Sciences

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-58
Author(s):  
Ausaf Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Grand Theory ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Moral Explanation ◽  
Social And Behavioral Science ◽  
The One ◽  
Scientific Atheism

AbstractIn this paper I have tried to argue that the two widely used paradigmsof Individualism in Western social science, and Collectivism in Soviet socialscience, are not appropriate for Islamic social science on account of thesecularism (disregard of revelation) of the former and the "scientific atheism"of the latter. I have funher tried to argue that the hypothetico-deductive andempirical methodology (often called logical positivism) of natural and physicalscience is not appropriate for social and behavioral science in general, andIslamic social behavioral science in particular. It would be more fitting toregard the various disciplines of social and behavioral science as moral sciencesin order to incorporate the values, morals, and purposes of society in theorybuildingand hypothesis-formation. Accordingly, I am arguing in favor ofa moral explanation of human behavior and social processes. A moralexplanation is one which seeks to discover the causes (immediate antecedents)as well as reasons (including motives and intentions) behind human behaviorwith the greater responsibility for the explanation resting with the latter.A paradigm, conceptual framework, or what is called grand theory isessential for the formulation of theories in various fields of social and behavioralsciences, on the one hand, and for guiding empirical research. on the other.Western social science and Soviet social science have their respectiveparadigms. The immediate need of Islamic social science is to construct adistinguishable paradigm of its own. I have tried to formulate a list of theunderlying concepts of such a possible paradigm, conceptual framework,or grand theory, but not such a theory per se.Finally, I have made the suggestion that, inasmuch as the understandingof human behavior is our goal, the social and behavioral scientist could enhancethe understanding of human and social phenomena by trying to understandhis/her own motives, behavior, and actions ...

scholarly journals Non-naturalistic moral explanation

Synthese ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Baron ◽  
Mark Colyvan ◽  
Kristie Miller ◽  
Michael Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Moral Explanation

Moral Explanation and Moral Objectivity

1998 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Railton ◽  
Gilbert Harman ◽  
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Moral Objectivity ◽  
Moral Explanation

Anthropology and Moral Explanation

The Monist ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 610-624
Author(s):  
A. R. Louch ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Explanation
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