Ethical Sentimentalism

Remy Debes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on moral theory with an emphasis on human dignity, respect, metaethics, moral psychology, empathy, and understanding. He is the editor of Dignity: A History (forthcoming). Karsten R. Stueber is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts. He is the author of, among others, Rediscovering Empathy: Agency, Folk Psychology, and the Human Sciences (2006), and co-editor of Empathy and Agency (2000) and Debating Dispositions (2009).

• Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction; 1. Interdisciplinary before the disciplines: moral sentimentalism and the new science of man Michael Frazer; 2. Neo-classical sentimentalism Jesse Prinz; 3. Moral epistemology for sentimentalists Simon Blackburn; 4. Evolutionary debunking arguments, explanatory structure and the appeal of anti-realism Karl Schafer; 5. Sentimentalist moral-perceptual experience and realist pretensions Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons; 6. Sentimentalism and realism in epistemology and ethics Peter Railton; 7. Sentimentalism, blameworthiness and wrongdoing Antti Kauppinen; 8. Reactive attitudes and second-person address Michelle Mason; 9. The authority of empathy (or how to ground sentimentalism) Remy Debes; 10. Smithean constructivism: elucidating the reality of the normative domain Karsten R. Stueber; 11. A modest feminist sentimentalism: empathy and moral understanding across social difference Diana Tietjens Meyers; 12. Moral sentimentalism in early Confucian thought David Wong; 13. Whither sentimentalism? On fear, the fearsome and the dangerous Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson; References; Index.