Experimental Ethics: Toward an Empirical Moral Philosophy

by C. Lütge (Editor), H. Rusch (Editor), M. Uhl (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349488797
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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