Integrated philosophical investigation into moral cognition and social cognition

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26284001
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: NOBUHARA Yukihiro 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (10180770)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 亀田 達也 東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科(文学部), 教授 (20214554) ; 鈴木 貴之 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (20434607) ; 立花 幸司 熊本大学, 大学院人文社会科学研究部(文), 准教授 (30707336) ; 唐沢 かおり 東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科(文学部), 教授 (50249348) ; 松元 健二 玉川大学, 付置研究所, 教授 (50300900) ; 太田 紘史 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 准教授 (80726802)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): KATAGI Noriaki 大阪歯科大学, 歯学部, 教授 (40194766)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 道徳理性 / 道徳感情 / 共感 / 自由意志判断 / 道徳／慣習の区別 / 状況主義 / 徳倫理 / 社会規範

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We investigated the way moral judgment and moral motivation are produced through the interactions of moral cognition with social cognition and derived its philosophical implications. Cognition of moral goodness and evil, whether by reason or by emotion, produces moral judgment and motivation through the interactions with the understanding of others’ intentions or the taking of others’ perspective. The philosophical implications we derived are that moral judgment is recognition of moral value of the situation (cognitivism), that moral judgment in itself includes motivation (internalism), and that moral behavior depends on the agent’s character (virtue) while it is heavily influenced by the situation.

Free Research Field

人文学