Experimental Ethics: Toward an Empirical Moral Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781137409799 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 304 str.

Christoph Luetge; Hannes Rusch; Matthias Uhl

Opis

Academic philosophy has experienced a major upheaval in the last decade. Venturous young philosophers, psychologists, and economists have begun to challenge the traditional stance that philosophy is an undertaking best pursued from the safety and calm of an arm-chair. Instead, they took the gloves off and brought philosophical questions to the experimental laboratory.

This volume sets the stage for the development of a consistent theoretical framework for one of the branches of Experimental Philosophy: the empirical study of human moral reasoning, that is, Experimental Ethics.

To this end it assembles contributions from philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists, economists, and sociologists active in this lively and growing field of research. These elaborate and substantiated works will enable its readers to immerse themselves into Experimental Ethics' history, its current topics and future perspectives, its methodology, and the criticism it is subject to.

Spis treści

List of Contributors PART I : EXPERIMENTAL MORAL PHILOSOPHY? 1. Introduction: Towards an Empirical Moral Philosophy; C. Lutge, M. Uhl and H. Rusch 2. Experimental Philosophy; K.A. Appiah 3. Chances, Problems and Limits of Experimental Ethics; C. Lutge 4. A Brief History of Experimental Ethics; N. Dworazik and H. Rusch PART II: APPLIED EXPERIMENTAL ETHICS: CASE STUDIES Introduction 5. The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Role of the Philosopher; E. Schwitzgebel 6. Explaining the Knobe Effect; V. Wagner 7. Trolleys and Double Effect in Experimental Ethics; E. Di Nucci 8. Utilitarianism, the Difference Principle, or Else? An Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Social Immobility on the Democratic Election of Distributive Rules; S. Wolf and A. Lenger 9. Value Assignments in Experimental Environmental Ethics; U. Frey PART III: ON METHODOLOGY Introduction 10. Implicit Morality - A Methodological Survey; N. Strominger et al 11. How to Gauge Moral Intuitions? Prospects for a New Methodology; M. Bruder and A. Tanyi 12. Descriptive and Pragmatic Levels of Empirical Ethics; A. Bunge and A. Skulmowski 13. Robust Intuitions, Experimental Ethics and Experimental Economics: Bringing Reflective Equilibrium into the Lab; F. Aguiar et al PART IV: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS Introduction 14. Experimental Philosophy is Useful - But not in a Specific Way; J. Rosenthal 15. Intuitions, Experiments, and Armchairs; N. Mukerji PART V: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Introduction 16. Large-scale Social Experiments in Experimental Ethics; J.F. Muller 17. Philosophy as the Behaviorist Views It?; H. Rusch 18. Outlook Index

O autorze

Fernando Aguiar, IESA Cordoba, Spain Martin Bruder, University of Konstanz, Germany Andreas Bunge, University of Osnabrück, Germany Brendan Caldwell, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Daryl Cameron, University of Iowa, USA Niklas Dworazik, University of Osnabrück, Germany Ulrich Frey, University of Giessen, Germany Antonio Gaitán, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, SPAIN Alexander Lenger, University of Freiburg i.B., Germany Christoph Luetge, TU München, Germany Nikil Mukerji, LMU Munich, Germany Julian F. Müller, TU München, Germany Ezio Di Nucci, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Blanca Rodríguez Lopez, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Jacob Rosenthal, University of Konstanz, Germany Hannes Rusch, TU München, Germany Jana Schaich Borg, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Eric Schwitzgebel, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Alexander Skulmowski, University of Osnabrück, Germany Nina Strohminger, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Attila Tanyi, University of Konstanz, Germany Verena Wagner, University of Konstanz, Germany Stephan Wolf, University of Freiburg i.B., Germany Matthias Uhl, TU München, Germany