By Nancy E. Snow
Virtue as Social Intelligence: An Empirically Grounded Theory takes at the claims of philosophical situationism, the moral concept that's skeptical concerning the risk of human advantage. motivated through social mental reports, philosophical situationists argue that human character is simply too fluid and fragmented to help a reliable set of virtues. They declare that advantage can't be grounded in empirical psychology. This ebook argues another way.
Drawing at the paintings of psychologists Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda, Nancy E. Snow argues that the social mental experiments that philosophical situationists depend on examine the incorrect types of occasions to check for behavioral consistency. instead of events which are objectively related, researchers have to examine events that experience related meanings for the subject. while this is often performed, matters convey behavioral consistencies that warrant the attribution of putting up with features, and virtues are a subset of those features. advantage can hence be empirically grounded and advantage ethics has not anything to worry from philosophical situationism.
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