ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I present a critique of moral psychology as it is practiced mostly by the followers of either Kant’s or Hume’s philosophies. Moral psychology has so far mainly tended to be dedicated to proving that the essence of morality is either “cognitive” or “emotional.” But because both emotion and cognition should be considered equally central to moral psychology, any dichotomizing account will necessarily miss their content. In the final section of this chapter, I describe two theories in moral psychology that took the latter course without pitting cognition against emotion – universal moral grammar (UMG) (Hauser, 2006; Mikhail, 2007, 2012) and the theory of dyadic morality (Gray et al., 2012b; Schein & Gray, 2017).
