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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816517003321

Titolo

Being amoral : psychopathy and moral incapacity / / Thomas Schramme, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-262-32039-8

0-262-32038-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Philosophical psychopathology

Disciplina

174.2/9689

Soggetti

Psychopaths - Ethics

Antisocial personality disorders - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Heterogeneous Construct of Psychopathy; I Moral Capacities and Incapacities; 3 Psychopathy and Moral Rationality; 4 Without Fellow Feeling; 5 The Words but Not the Music: Empathy, Language Deficits, and Psychopathy; 6 Psychopathic Comportment and Moral Incapacity; 7 Not Caring: Sociopaths and the Suffering of Others; II Issues in Moral Psychology; 8 Do Psychopaths Refute Internalism?; 9 Psychopathic Resentment; 10 Being a (A-)Moral Person and Caring about Morality; III Social Aspects: Blame, Transgression, and Dangerousness

11 Psychopathy, Responsibility, and the Moral/Conventional Distinction12 The Significance of Psychopathic Wrongdoing; 13 Contesting Dangerousness, Risk, and Treatability: A Sociological View of Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD); 14 Conclusion: The Many Faces of Psychopathy; Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

"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 deficits, shedding light on the capacities people need



to be moral by examining cases of real people who seem to lack those capacities"--Publisher's description.