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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Schramme, Thomas (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2014]
Series:	Philosophical psychopathology
Subjects:	Psychopaths > Ethics. Antisocial personality disorders > Moral and ethical aspects. PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	"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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vi, 335 pages) : 1 illustration.
ISBN:	9780262320382 026232038X
DOI:	10.7551/mitpress/9780262027915.001.0001