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Experimental Ethics
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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 tried to bring philosophical ques- tions to the experimental laboratory.
To date, more than 500 works have been written which fall into the category of ‘Experimental Philosophy’ – see, for example, philpapers.org. Not all of them present actual experimental results, though. The very beginning of Experimental Philosophy was accompanied by a fierce debate about its general purpose, its methodology, and, most impor- tantly, its significance for philosophical theorizing. And this debate is far from being settled.
With this volume we intend to set 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 we invited contributions from philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists, economists, and sociologists active in this lively and growing field of research. We are convinced that their elaborate and substantiated works which constitute the main part of this volume will enable its readers to immerse themselves into Experimental Ethics’ history, its current topics, its methodology, and the criticism it is subject to. We organized the volume accordingly:
Christoph Luetge, Hannes Rusch, Matthias Uhl - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978–1–137–40979–9
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Experimental Ethics
Management
English
Palgrave Macmillan
2014
USA
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