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Pourquoi le travail du care est-il particulièrement fertile pour les questions morales ? Qu’est-ce que la psychologie sociale peut apporter à la réflexion en éthique ? En quoi la philosophie morale peut-elle renouveler l’écoute des psychologues ? Ceux-ci peuvent-ils transformer leur façon de comprendre les préoccupations du monde ordinaire ? Comment les discours savants peuvent-ils ne pas étouffer la voix différente en éthique ? À partir d’enquêtes réalisées sur le terrain de la recherche en nanomédecine, sur celui du soin gériatrique, ou de l’expérience de femmes confrontées à la violence, ce livre propose une lecture de « ce qui compte » pour les personnes qui sont engagées dans une relation d’attention à autrui. Les conditions de l’identification à l’autre, ou au contraire de l’impossibilité de s’imaginer à sa place, sont un fil rouge dans une réflexion portant tour à tour sur l’angoisse morale, le racisme et le mépris social, le rapport entre souci de soi et souci des autres. Why care work is so particularly fertile for moral questions? What can social psychology bring to reflection in ethics? In what way moral philosophy can renew the listening of psychologists? Can they change the way they understand the preoccupations of the ordinary world? How can scholarly discourses not stifle the different voices in ethics? Based on research conducted in the field of nanomedicine research, geriatric care, or in the experience of women with violence, this book offers a reading of "what matters" for those engaged in a relationship of attention to others. The conditions of identification with the other, or the impossibility of imagining oneself in his place, are a red thread in a reflection bearing in turn moral anguish, racism and social contempt, and the relationship between care and selfcare.

Women's Studies --- éthique --- care --- psychologie morale --- féminisme --- subjectivités --- ethics --- moral psychology --- feminism --- subjectivities

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This book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics. It responds to a number of well-known philosophers and psychologists, and proposes a new perspective – radical in its moderation. It examines in depth the work of the philosopher Joshua Greene and the psychologist Jonathan Haidt. With the so-called empirical turn in ethics, much work has been done to try to isolate the role of reason and intuition in forming our moral judgements, with Haidt and Greene leading the research programmes and attracting much of the professional and public attention, and many others following. The current view – shared by both camps – is that intuition is largely the driver of our moral judgements – a view summed up in Haidt’s slogan ‘intuition first, strategic reasoning second’. Haidt believes we have to live with this and accept it. Greene does not: he contends that our intuitions, while suitable for the environments in which we evolved, are worthless in the modern, global, technological age, and to avoid ethical disaster we must learn to adopt reason as the arbiter of moral truth. This book steers a middle course between these two positions and is therefore of great interest to philosophers and psychologists alike. Intuition and reason, and different conceptions of them, lie behind many significant discussions in recent philosophical ethics and moral psychology. One effect of those discussions has been the insertion of a wedge between the two notions. In this engaging and fascinating book, McGee and Foster make a thought-provoking case for removing that wedge. Professor Roger Crisp, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford I wanted to cheer all the way through this beautifully written book – one that is both incisive and profoundly humane. So much moral philosophy is ensnared in simple rationalism or simple intuitionism: this book argues that intuition and reason are not just at times compatible, in a sort of uneasy compromise, but that each is always essential to the proper functioning of the other. Its takedown of so much utilitarianism is long overdue. It embraces what can be learnt from neuroscience and at the same time appeals to morality in the practice of life, not just in the seminar room. A book that should be on every intelligent reader’s shelves. Dr Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things.

Intuition. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Ethics. --- Epistemology. --- Moral Psychology. --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

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This book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and twentieth century. Each chapter comes with a multidisciplinary approach in which protagonists are mutilated in their quest for loving as alternative to annihilation. The book emphasizes love as an obsession, thus as an exploration of the mind. From the passion-myth of Tristan and Isolde to the nihilist modernist representations, the western world has created a perverse concept of love. A love for nothingness, for death. Narcissistic and at times destructive, love is gained by overcoming obstacles. If without obstacles there is no love, then love becomes love for obstacles. Within this masochistic frame, love, falling in love, being loved always stand at the edge of pathology. At its core this book narrates a love story, more precisely a story of loves, the haunting evocation of a desire that by its very nature cannot be fulfilled. Inherent in the nature of love is a subtle dialectical activity between presence and absence, between creation and destruction, reality and void. Accordingly, the narrative raises questions that the past two centuries were incapable of answering. Does love only last the time of a kiss? Is its promise fatally destined to dissolve? What about violence? Physical, emotional, temporal. Is it an ineliminable part of love or its most extreme profanation? And what is the mystery that accompanies loves that know how to last without resigning themselves to the death of desire? It is to answer some of these questions that I wrote this text. Love is an unconscious process that dominates reason and destroys it when reason cannot be a mode of communication. Hence, the amorous romance is madness and this text is written as a loud reminder. Endorsement A unique and surprising book about love. A book that goes against the grain, offering the reader an evocative feeling of suspension between desire and the uncertainty of its fulfilment. A daring book whose reading is a must because it offers a new perspective not yet encountered elsewhere. Barbara Sonzogni - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Emotions (Philosophy). --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Ethics. --- Philosophy of feelings. --- Philosophy of Anthropology. --- Moral Psychology.

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Since the millennium, the neurophysiological and psychological bases of moral judgements and actions have been the topic of much empirical research. This volume discusses the relevance and possible usage of this research for (meta-)ethics and action theory. An overview of the empirical research, followed by critical assessments of several of its results, provides orientation on the research and criteria for its reasonable usage.

Judgment (Ethics) --- Ethics. --- Moral conditions. --- Morals --- Social history --- Social norms --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Moral judgment --- Ethics --- Moral psychology. --- metaethics. --- moral physiology.

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Moral theory has been agonized by dualism - motivation is analyzed into beliefs and desires, descriptions of facts and dissatisfactions with them, while action is represented as an effort to lessen dissatisfaction by altering the empirical world. In Attending Warren Heiti traces an alternative genealogy of ethics, drawing from the Platonism recovered by Simone Weil and developed in the work of Iris Murdoch, John McDowell, and Jan Zwicky.

Ethics. --- Aristotle. --- GEM Anscombe. --- Iris Murdoch. --- Jan Zwicky. --- John McDowell. --- Ludwig Wittgenstein. --- Plato. --- Simone Weil. --- aesthetics. --- ancient Greek. --- attention. --- character. --- cognitivism. --- comparative literature. --- environmental. --- imagination. --- integrity. --- internalism. --- listening. --- lyric. --- mindfulness. --- moral psychology. --- particul arism. --- phronesis. --- realism. --- virtue.