Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology

The Aristotelian virtue phronesis economically yet comprehensively integrates moral perception with moral action. Though aspects of phronesis characterize many complex skills, we claim that, in the right circumstances, thinking and acting phronetically can facilitate fast and slow moral choices and be involved in the governance of both intuitively guided and intentional moral action. Phronesis , working with values and affordances, reveals the fittingness of potential actions to the moral actor, indicating which action is best. By relating (though not directly equating) aspects of phronesis to components of executive function, we integrate work whose potential relevance for moral psychology has been largely overlooked.