Epistemological challenges to the psychological versions of moral development.

BARREIRO, ALICIA; CASTORINA, JOSÉ ANTONIO

Santos

Conferencia; 41st Association for Moral Education Conference (AME); 2015

Association for Moral Education Conference (AME)

The aim of this presentation is to discuss the scope and limitations of the concept of development in moral psychology. We examine the responses that different perspectives have given to: Does moral development follows the rationality immanent to cognitive development or it is determined by context? ¿What is the involvement of biological disposition in that process? ¿It is possible to attribute a central role to reconstructive individual activity into the appropriation process of values and collective beliefs? Finally, we establish provisory balance considering the multiplicity of meanings of the term development, as well as ethic and epistemological assumptions that underlie to psychological research.