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Being amoral : psychopathy and moral incapacity /
"Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatry and yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy by considering the question of what psychopaths lack. The contributors investigate specific moral dysfunctions or def...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Philosophical psychopathology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The heterogeneous construct of psychopathy
- I: Moral capacities and incapacities. Psychopathy and moral rationality
- Without fellow feeling
- The words but not the music: empathy, language deficits, and psychopathy
- Psychopathic comportment and moral incapacity
- Not caring: sociopaths and the suffering of others
- II: Issues in moral psychology. Do psychopaths refute internalism?
- Psychopathic resentment
- Being a (a- )moral person and caring about morality
- III: Social aspects: blame, transgression, and dangerousness. Psychopathy, responsibility, and the moral/conventional distinction
- The significance of psychopathic wrongdoing
- Contesting dangerousness, risk, and treatability: a sociological view of dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD)
- Conclusion: the many faces of psychopathy.