Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation

J. Jeffrey Tillman is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of Graduate Studies at the Wichita Falls Campus of Wayland Baptist University, Texas, US

• 1—The Problems of Contemporary Moral Deliberation.- Five Styles of Moral Deliberation.- An Inadequate Model of Human Cognition.- 2-Human Embodiment and Moral Deliberation.- Stumbling Over Embodiment.- Evolutionary Theory and Humanity.- Brain Structure and Brain Function.- Neurotransmitters--Rewards And Aversions.- Emotion.- Non-Conscious Cognition.- Fundamental.- Routines of Survival.- Embodiment and Ethics.- 3-Human Sociability and Moral Deliberation.- The Ability to be Social.- The Dynamics of Human Socialization.- Evolution and Social Groups.- Social Deliberation about Ethics.- 4-Dual Process Theories and Moral Deliberation.- History of Decision Making Theory.- Dual Process Theories of Cognition.- Dual Process Theory and Moral Decision Making.- The Problems of Current Dual Process Moral Theory.- 5-Type 2 Moral Cognition.- Deductive Reasoning.- Analysis.- Induction.- Coherence-Based Reasoning.-  Assessment of Type 2 Moral Reasoning.- 6-Type 1 Moral Cognition.-  of Type 1 Processing.- William James and Type 1 Cognition.- A Jamesian Model of Moral Cognition.- Aesthetic Moral Cognition.- 7-Narrative And Moral Deliberation.- Type 2 Processes and Narrative Interpretation.- Type 2 Narrative and Applied Ethics.- Type 1 Narrative Construction and Interpretation.- Type 1 Moral Deliberation Using Narratives.- 8-- Dual Processes Interacting in Moral Deliberation.- Reflective Equilibrium.- Perceptual Equilibrium.- William James, Conceptual Translation, and the Mediating Attitude.- A Dual Process Model of Moral Deliberation.- An Abbreviated Illustration of the Model.- The Importance of Aesthetic Sensibilities.- 9-Conclusion.- Endnotes.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.