Book

Moral Minds

How Reasons Become Real

Two figures stand on a high bridge between a library and a study; a river town lies below the arches.

How a mind becomes able to care about right and wrong. Fifteen chapters, from the question consciousness could not answer to the crossing from minds to worlds.

Contents

  1. PrologueWho Am I?
  2. Chapter 1The Question Consciousness Could Not Answer
  3. Chapter 2Representation Is Not Recognition
  4. Chapter 3Concern: The Material of Morality
  5. Chapter 4Reflection and the Collapse of Privilege
  6. Chapter 5The Crossing
  7. Chapter 6Identity: When Reasons Become Character
  8. Chapter 7Formation: The Selves We Make Available
  9. Chapter 8The Human Architecture of Wrongdoing
  10. Chapter 9Building the Evil Mind
  11. Chapter 10Compulsion, Conviction, and Reasons-Responsiveness
  12. Chapter 11The Constitution Within
  13. Chapter 12Character Is a Constitution
  14. Chapter 13Testing for the Crossing
  15. Chapter 14Forming Artificial Moral Agents
  16. Chapter 15From Minds to Worlds
  17. EpilogueGuard the Crossing
  18. AppendixHow This Book Was Formed