Sentimental Rules is an ambitious and highly interdisciplinary
work, which proposes and defends a new theory about the nature and
evolution of moral judgment. In it, philosopher Shaun Nichols
develops the theory that emotions play a critical role in both the
psychological and the cultural underpinnings of basic moral
judgment. Nichols argues that our norms prohibiting the harming of
others are fundamentally associated with our emotional responses to
those harms, and that such 'sentimental rules' enjoy an advantage
in cultural evolution, which partly explains the success of certain
moral norms. This has sweeping and exciting implications for
philosophical ethics.
Nichols builds on an explosion of recent intriguing experimental
work in psychology on our capacity for moral judgment and shows how
this empirical work has broad import for enduring philosophical
problems. The result is an account that illuminates fundamental
questions about the character of moral emotions and the role of
sentiment and reason in how we make our moral judgments. This work
should appeal widely across philosophy and the other disciplines
that comprise cognitive science.
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