The Moral Psychology Handbook

1. Fiery Cushman, is a post-doctoral fellow at the Mind, Brain and Behavior program at Harvard University. His research focuses on the psychological mechanisms of moral judgment, their developmental origins, and their evolutionary history. These studies have drawn on many diverse methods : studies of patients with brain trauma, functional neuroimaging, studies of infants and young children, evolutionary modeling, behavioral economics, and traditional psychological survey methods. Cushman co-manages the Moral Sense Test website, where more than 100,000 people have participated in online experiments in moral psychology. Cushman received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 2008, and his B.A. in biology from Harvard University in 2003.

2. John M. Doris, is Associate Professor in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psycho-v logy Program and Philosophy Department, Washington University in St. Louis. Doris works at the intersection of psychology, cognitive science, and philosophical ethics, and has authored or co-authored papers in this region for such publications as Nous, Bioethics, Cognition, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy. Doris authored Lack of Character (Cambridge, 2002) and is currently working on A Natural History of the Self, to appear with Oxford University Press. Doris has been awarded fellowships from Michigan's Institute for the Humanities, Princeton's University Center for Human Values, the National Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, and (three times) the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2007, he was awarded the Society for Philosophy and Psychology's Stanton Prize for interdisciplinary research in philosophy and psychology.

3. Joshua D. Greene, is an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University and the director of the Moral Cognition Lab. He studies moral judgment and decision-making using behavioral experiments, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and other empirical methods. Greene has a Ph.D. in philosophy, and much of his scientific research is motivated by traditionally philosophical questions.

4. Gilbert Harman, is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is the author of eight books, including Explaining Values (Oxford, 2000) and (with Sanjeev Kulkarni) Reliable Reasoning : Induction and Statistical learning 'Theory (MIT, 2007), and has edited four others, including Conceptions of the Human Mind (Erlbaum, 1993).

5. Daniel Kelly's, research is located at the intersection of the philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive science. He has authored or co-authored papers and comments in these areas for Mind & Language, Cognition, Behavioral and Brain Science, Philosophy Compass, The Springer Encyclopedic Reference of Neuroscience, and The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology. He is interested in cultural and biological explanations of our uniquely human cognitive capacities, and has done work on moral judgment and the philosophical implications of research on racial cognition and implicit bias. He is currently an assistant professor at Purdue University, where he is working on a book on the philosophy and psychology of disgust.

6. Joshua Knobe, is an assistant professor of cognitive science and philosophy at Yale University. Most of his research is in the new field of "experimental philosophy." In his work in this field, he has conducted experimental studies of people's intuitions concerning intentional action, causation, consciousness, group agency, racial prejudice, reason, explanation, freedom, and moral responsibility. Above all, he is interested in the ways in which moral considerations can affect people's judgments about what seem to be purely "scientific" questions.

7. Edouard Machery, is currently an associate professor of philosophy in the Department or History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the philosophical issues raised by psychology and neuropsychology, with a special interest in concepts, moral psychology, the relevance of evolutionary biology for understanding cognition, modularity, and the nature, origins, and ethical significance ot prejudiced cognition. He has published more than 30 articles and chapters on these topics in journals such as Analysis, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Cognition, Mind & Language, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Philosophy of Science. In his first book, Doing without Concepts (Oxford, 2009), he argues that drastic conceptual changes are required to make sense of the research on concepts in psychology and neuropsychology. He is currently working on a new book examining critically the methodology of psychology and its status as a progressive science. He is also involved in the development of experimental philosophy, having published several noted articles in this field.

8. Ron Mallon, is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Utah. His research is in philosophy of cognitive psychology, social philosophy (especially on race), moral psychology, and experimental philosophy (including work on reference, moral psychology, and philosophical methodology). He has authored or co-authored papers in Cognition, Ethics, Journal of Political Philosophy, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Mind & Language, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy of Science, Social Neuroscience, and Social Theory and Practice. He has been the recipient of a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, a Research Assistant Professorship at the University of Hong Kong, a Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and he is the co-director of an NEH Institute on Experimental Philosophy.

9. Kelby Mason, is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His work is in the philosophy of psychology.

10. Maria W. Merritt, is a Core Faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She earned her B.S. in Biology from Wake Forest University, her B.A. in Philosophy and Modern Languages from Oxford University, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Merritt completed postdoctoral training in bioethics as a Fellow in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, she taught philosophy at the College of William and Mary and held a Faculty Fellowship at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University. At Johns Hopkins, Merritt is a co-associate director of the Greenwall Fellowship Program in Bioethics and Health Policy, and a faculty affiliate and advisory board member of the Johns Hopkins-Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program. Her current research interests include global health ethics, international research ethics, moral philosophy, and moral psychology. Merritt's work as an author or co-author includes articles published in : Ethics, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Bulletin of the WHO, PLoS Medicine, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, and AIDS.

11. Shaun Nichols, holds a joint appointment in philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Arizona. He is author of Sentimental Rules : On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment (Oxford, 2004), co-author (with Stephen Stich) of Mindreading : An Integrated Account of Pretense, Self-awareness and Understanding Other Minds (Oxford, 2003), and co-editor (with Joshua Knobe) of Experimental Philosophy (Oxford, 2008).

12. Alexandra Plakias, is a graduate student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before coming to Michigan she received a Masters degree from the University of California Santa Cruz.

13. Jesse J. Prinz, is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. His research focuses on the perceptual, emotional, and cultural foundations of human psychology. His books include Furnishing the Mind : Concepts and Their Perception Basis (MIT, 2002), Gut Reactions : A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (Oxford, 2004), and The Emotional Construction of Morals (Oxford, 2007). All of his research in the cognitive sciences bears on traditional philosophical questions. Prinz's work is a contemporary extension of the classical empiricist tradition in philosophy, which emphasizes experience, rather than innate knowledge, and disembodied, amodal representations in thought.

14. Erica Roedder graduated cum laude from Stanford University and will receive her Ph.D. in philosophy from New York University. She has co-authored several papers in philosophy of psychology and is particularly interested in cognitive biases.

15. Adina L. Roskies, an assistant professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College, has pursued a career in both philosophy and neuroscience. Her research and writing has focused philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and ethics, including neuroethics. She received a Ph.D. in neuroscience and cognitive science in 1995 from the University of California, San Diego. She then did a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroimaging at Washington University in St. Louis, using positron emission tomography and the then newly developing technique of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). After serving two years as senior editor of Neuron, she went on to complete a Ph.D. in philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. Dr. Roskies joined the Dartmouth faculty in the fall of 2004. She has been a visiting fellow in philosophy at the Australian National University and the University of Sydney. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from National Institutes of Health and the McDonnell-Pew Foundation. She is a project fellow on the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project. Dr. Roskies is the author of some thirty articles published in academic journals, including one on neuroethics for which she was awarded the William James Prize by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology.

16. Timothy Schroeder, received his B.A. from the University of Lethbridge and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. After starting his career at the University of Manitoba, he is now Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University. He works on the philosophy of mind and moral psychology, and these interests intersect in his book, Three Faces of Desire (Oxford, 2004).

17. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, is Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Duke University. He taught at Dartmouth College 1981-2009 after receiving his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is currently Vice-Chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association and Co-director of the Mat-Arthur Law and Neuroscience Program. He has published extensively on ethics (theoretical and applied), philosophy of law, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and informal logic. His current research focuses on empirical moral psychology as well as law and neuroscience.

18. Stephen Stich, is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He has written extensively on issues in cognitive science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, moral theory, and philosophical methodology. Stich is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was the first recipient of the American Philosophical Association's Gittler Award for outstanding scholarly contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences. In 2007, he received the Jean Nicod Prize sponsored by the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

19. Valerie Tiberius, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include moral psychology, prudential virtues, and well-being. Her recent book, The Reflective Life : Living Wisely With Our Limits (Oxford, 2008), explores how we ought to think about practical wisdom and living a good life given what we now know about ourselves from empirical psychology. She is currently working on a comprehensive, psychologically informed account of wisdom with support from a Defining Wisdom grant from the University of Chicago and the Templeton Foundation.

20. Liane Young, is a post-doctoral associate in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences Department and a visiting scholar in the Philosophy Department at MIT. She studies the cognitive and neural basis of human moral judgment, focusing especially on the roles of emotion and mental state reasoning. Her work employs the methods of cognitive neuroscience: functional neuroimaging, studying patient populations with specific cognitive and neural deficits, and modulating activity in specific brain areas using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Young received her Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 2008, and her B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2004. In 2006 Young was awarded the William James Prize by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology for a paper on moral judgment in patients with brain damage.

1. Index of Names
2. General Index