Edited by
Wolfgang Edelstein, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Gertrud Nunner-Winkler, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
Description
Morality in context is a timely topic. A debate between philosophers and social scientists is a good way to approach it. Why is there
such a booming interest in morality and why does it focus on context? One starting point is the change in the sociostructural and sociocultural
conditions of modern societies. This involves change in the empirical conditions of moral action and in the social demand on morality.
As these changes are accounted for and analyzed in the social sciences, new perspectives emerge that give rise to new ways of framing
issues and problems. These problems are best addressed by way of cooperation between philosophers and social scientists. As Habermas
(1990) has pointed out in a much cited paper, philosophers depend on social science to fill in the data they require to answer the questions
raised by philosophy in its "placeholder" function. The reverse also holds true: Social science needs the conceptual clarifications that
philosophy can provide. With respect to morality, such mutual interchanges are of particular importance the contributions to this book
show convincingly.
Included in series
Advances in Psychology
Audience:
Researchers and students in cognitive and social psychology.
