Experimental Ethics [electronic resource] : Toward an Empirical Moral Philosophy /
Lütge, Christoph.
Luetge, Christoph.editor.
Rusch, Hannes.editor.
Uhl, Matthias.editor.
Moral philosophy is no longer being pursued from arm-chairs. Instead, ethical questions are dissected in the experimental lab. This volume enables its readers to immerse themselves into Experimental Ethics' history, its current topics and future perspectives, its methodology, and the criticism it is subject to.
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Cover; Hailf-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Toward an EmpiricalMoral Philosophy; Part I Experimental Moral Philosophy?; 2 Experimental Philosophy; 3 Chances, Problems, and Limits ofExperimental Ethics; 4 A Brief History of ExperimentalEthics; Part II Applied Experimental Ethics:Case Studies; 5 The Moral Behavior of Ethicistsand the Role of the Philosopher; 6 Explaining the Knobe Effect; 7 Trolleys and Double Effect inExperimental Ethics
8 Utilitarianism, the DifferencePrinciple, or Else? An ExperimentalAnalysis of the Impact of SocialImmobility on the DemocraticElection of Distributive Rules9 Value Assignments in ExperimentalEnvironmental Ethics; Part III On Methodology; 10 Implicit Morality: AMethodological Survey; 11 How to Gauge Moral Intuitions?Prospects for a New Methodology; 12 Descriptive and Pragmatic Levelsof Empirical Ethics: Utilizingthe Situated Character of MoralConcepts, Judgment, andDecision-Making; 13 Robust Intuitions, ExperimentalEthics, and ExperimentalEconomics: Bringing ReflectiveEquilibrium into the Lab
Part IV Critical Reflections14Experimental Philosophy IsUseful - But not in a Specific Way; 15Intuitions, Experiments, andArmchairs; Part V Future Perspectives; 16Large-scale Social Experiments inExperimental Ethics; 17Philosophy as the BehavioristViews It? Historical Parallelsto the Discussion of the Useof Experimental Methods inPhilosophy; 18 Outlook: Current Problems andFuture Perspectives ofExperimental Ethics; Name Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
Moral philosophy is no longer being pursued from arm-chairs. Instead, ethical questions are dissected in the experimental lab. This volume enables its readers to immerse themselves into Experimental Ethics' history, its current topics and future perspectives, its methodology, and the criticism it is subject to.
Genetic epistemology.
Ethics.
Logic.
Epistemology.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Logic.