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Peggy DesAutels is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton.
Margaret Urban Walker is Lincoln Professor of Ethics, Justice, and the Public Sphere at Arizona State University.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part 1: Matters of Feeling
Chapter 3 Trust and Terror
Chapter 4 Intimidation
Chapter 5 Gratitude, Obligation, and Individualism
Chapter 6 "What's a Woman Worth? What's Life Worth? Without Self-Respect!": On the Value of Evaluative Self-Respect
Part 7 Part 3: Thought into Action
Chapter 8 Moral Mindfulness
Chapter 9 The Social Situation of Sincerity: Austen's Emma and Lovibond's Ethical Formation
Chapter 10 The Preferences of Women
Chapter 11 Models of Mind and Memory Activities
Part 12 Part 3: Acting Responsibly
Chapter 13 Torture in Ordinary Circumstances
Chapter 14 "Ideal Theory" as Ideology
Chapter 15 Blame, Oppression, and Diminished Moral Competence
Chapter 16 Woman Centered: A Feminist Ethic of Responsibility
Not only does this volume contain fascinating original essays well worth reading in their own right, it also makes a case, as a whole, for thinking about moral psychology as a central theme within ethics. As Margaret Walker argues in the Introduction, emotion, thought, action, and responsbility constitute the how of ethics. If we take it seriously, this approach transforms the study of ethics. This book is thus indispensable for those thinking about how 'ethics' affects the world.
— Joan Tronto
These essays push the envelope of moral psychology so hard that the reader is forced to rethink what she takes moral psychology to be.
— Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
For anyone with an interest in moral psychology this volume will prove both enlightening and provocative. Furthermore, at a time when philosophy's relationship to other fields, notably psychology, is both contested and in flux, it is especially exciting to have a collection of essays that persuasively demonstrates philosophy's distinctive contribution to mapping our moral lives. It is, of course, no accident that this demonstration is provided by essays that, while ranging widely in topic and tone, are specifically feminist, and hence informed by the model of interdisciplinarity provided by feminist theory.
— Naomi Scheman, professor of philosophy and women's studies, University of Minnesota