| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Editorial review |
| Title: | Quantified coherence of moral beliefs as predictive factor for moral agency |
| Authors: | Christen, Markus Ott, Thomas |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2_5 |
| Published in: | What makes us moral? : on the capacities and conditions for being moral |
| Editors of the parent work: | Musschenga, Bert van Harskamp, Anton |
| Page(s): | 73 |
| Pages to: | 96 |
| Issue Date: | 2013 |
| Series: | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy |
| Series volume: | 31 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Springer |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Dordrecht |
| ISBN: | 978-94-007-6343-2 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject (DDC): | 100: Philosophy |
| Abstract: | The notion of ‘coherence’ plays an important but controversial role in moral theory. In our contribution, we present a descriptive notion of the concept of coherence that allows us to distinguish qualitatively different system states with respect to coherence. We compare our notion with coherence concepts in psychology and Paul Thagard’s definition of coherence as constraint satisfaction. We discuss the main differences between Thagard’s definition and our proposal. Finally, we outline how our concept of coherence can be applied in moral psychology as a tool for understanding how the structure of moral beliefs an individual moral agent holds may influence the behaviour of the agent. In particular, we show how our approach is able to integrate different types of coherence relationships between single beliefs. In this way, our definition of coherence allows us, for example, to analyse how cognitive and affective similarities between reasons used in moral decision making may interrelate. Furthermore, it can give novel insights into phenomena like practical irrationality in decision making. We finally sketch the relevance of our descriptive notion of coherence for its normative use. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/4414 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Life Sciences and Facility Management |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Computational Life Sciences (ICLS) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Life Sciences und Facility Management |
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Christen, M., & Ott, T. (2013). Quantified coherence of moral beliefs as predictive factor for moral agency. In B. Musschenga & A. van Harskamp (Eds.), What makes us moral? : on the capacities and conditions for being moral (pp. 73–96). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2_5
Christen, M. and Ott, T. (2013) ‘Quantified coherence of moral beliefs as predictive factor for moral agency’, in B. Musschenga and A. van Harskamp (eds) What makes us moral? : on the capacities and conditions for being moral. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 73–96. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2_5.
M. Christen and T. Ott, “Quantified coherence of moral beliefs as predictive factor for moral agency,” in What makes us moral? : on the capacities and conditions for being moral, B. Musschenga and A. van Harskamp, Eds. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, pp. 73–96. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2_5.
CHRISTEN, Markus und Thomas OTT, 2013. Quantified coherence of moral beliefs as predictive factor for moral agency. In: Bert MUSSCHENGA und Anton VAN HARSKAMP (Hrsg.), What makes us moral? : on the capacities and conditions for being moral. Dordrecht: Springer. S. 73–96. ISBN 978-94-007-6343-2
Christen, Markus, and Thomas Ott. 2013. “Quantified Coherence of Moral Beliefs as Predictive Factor for Moral Agency.” In What Makes Us Moral? : On the Capacities and Conditions for Being Moral, edited by Bert Musschenga and Anton van Harskamp, 73–96. Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2_5.
Christen, Markus, and Thomas Ott. “Quantified Coherence of Moral Beliefs as Predictive Factor for Moral Agency.” What Makes Us Moral? : On the Capacities and Conditions for Being Moral, edited by Bert Musschenga and Anton van Harskamp, Springer, 2013, pp. 73–96, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2_5.
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