Being amoral: psychopathy and moral incapacity

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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.;Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Heterogeneous Construct of Psychopathy; I Moral Capacities and Incapacities; 3 Psychopathy and Moral Rationality; 4 Without Fellow Feeling; 5 The Words but Not the Music: Empathy, Language Deficits, and Psychopathy; 6 Psychopathic Comportment and Moral Incapacity; 7 Not Caring: Sociopaths and the Suffering of Others; II Issues in Moral Psychology; 8 Do Psychopaths Refute Internalism?; 9 Psychopathic Resentment; 10 Being a (A- )Moral Person and Caring about Morality; III Social Aspects: Blame, Transgression, and Dangerousness. Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 The Heterogeneous Construct of Psychopathy I Moral Capacities and Incapacities 3 Psychopathy and Moral Rationality 4 Without Fellow Feeling 5 The Words but Not the Music: Empathy, Language Deficits, and Psychopathy 6 Psychopathic Comportment and Moral Incapacity 7 Not Caring: Sociopaths and the Suffering of Others II Issues in Moral Psychology 8 Do Psychopaths Refute Internalism? 9 Psychopathic Resentment 10 Being a (A- )Moral Person and Caring about Morality III Social Aspects: Blame, Transgression, and Dangerousness. 11 Psychopathy, Responsibility, and the Moral/Conventional Distinction12 The Significance of Psychopathic Wrongdoing 13 Contesting Dangerousness, Risk, and Treatability: A Sociological View of Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) 14 Conclusion: The Many Faces of Psychopathy Contributors Name Index Subject Index.