ABSTRACT
Moral psychology has changed dramatically in the last decade or so. Moral psychology in the 20th century focused on normative and conceptual questions and tended to dismiss the empirical questions. The assumptions people make about the difference between ethical claims and empirical claims raise questions about the status of the answers to moral questions and of moral theories themselves. Some of the resources that improve reflective equilibrium come from moral psychology. Moral philosophy in the broadest sense includes moral psychology, normative ethics and metaethics. There are three different types of questions in moral philosophy: normative, theoretical/conceptual and empirical/scientific. Philosophical and psychological research in moral psychology is relevant to all three kinds of questions. Reflective equilibrium highlights the evidence of moral judgments (or intuitions) about particular cases and the theoretical virtue of coherence.
