Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451655

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0451655

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Structure of Moral Reasoning: Hume, Kant and the Evidence from Psychopathology and Neuroscience. What can moral philosophers hope to learn from the sciences of the mind? Recent work on the disorders of autism and psychopathy, has promised to reshape a longstanding philosophical debate between Kantians and Humeans on the role of empathy (sympathy) in moral thinking. This project will draw out the implications of a range of neuroscientific findings for key questions in moral theory and also consider how the normative and conceptual claims made by such theories, about what must be true of a moral judgment, are connected to descriptive claims about the psychology of the moral agents who make them.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $191,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Philosophy | Philosophy Of Mind (Excl. Cognition) | Ethical Theory | Philosophy Not Elsewhere Classified |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Religion and ethics not elsewhere | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Other

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Ethical Theory | Other | Philosophy | Philosophy Not Elsewhere Classified | Philosophy Of Mind (Excl. Cognition) | Religion and ethics not elsewhere

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