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Attachment and Character presents new essays by philosophers and psychologists exploring the illumination that attachment theory can offer for philosophers working in moral psychology or in 'virtue ethics' - in the triangle of relationships between the concepts of human nature, human excellence, and the best life for human beings.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Ross A. Thompson: Attachment Theory and Moral Development
- 2: Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn: Dimensions, Determinants and Development of Prosocial Behaviour: A Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis on Attachment and Moral Character
- 3: Jonathan Hill: Attachment, the Virtues and the Vices: Some Developmental and Conceptual Considerations
- 4: Darcia Narvaez: The Evolved Nest, Virtue and Vice
- 5: Keith S. Cox and Micah Lott: The Virtues of Attachment
- 6: Jay Belsky: Beyond Virtue: The Development Of Reproductive Strategies
- 7: Edward Harcourt: Two Routes from Secure Attachment to Virtue
- 8: Terence Irwin: Education for Virtue: Aquinas on Passions and Attention
- 9: Katrien Schaubroeck: Attachment, Virtue and the Second Person
- 10: Alison E. Denham: An Aetiology of Recognition: Empathy, Attachment and Moral Competence
- 11: Monique Wonderly: Attachment, Addiction, and Vices of Valuing
About the author
Edward Harcourt has been a Fellow of Keble Collge, University of Oxford, since 2005, and before that held posts at the University of Kent and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He has been a Mind Association Research Fellow and has held visiting posts at Berkeley, Leipzig, and Williams College. Before taking the BPhil and DPhil in Oxford he was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Philosophy (Part I) and History (Part II). He convened the seminar series Meaning and Mindedness: Encounters between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the Tavistock Clinic (London), and is a director of the biennial Oxford Summer Schools in Philosophy and Psychiatry. He is currently on secondment as Director of Research, Strategy and Innovation at the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Summary
Attachment and Character presents new essays by philosophers and psychologists exploring the illumination that attachment theory can offer for philosophers working in moral psychology or in 'virtue ethics' - in the triangle of relationships between the concepts of human nature, human excellence, and the best life for human beings.
