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This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains, problems, and topics.
List of contents
1. The Experimental Turn in Moral and Political Philosophy
Antonio Gaitán, Fernando Aguiar and Hugo Viciana Part 1: Methods and Foundations 2. The Natural Law Thesis Under Empirical Scrutiny
Ivar R. Hannikainen, Brian Flanagan and Karolina Prochownik 3. Concrete Over Abstract: Experimental Evidence of Reflective Equilibrium in Population Ethics
Philipp Schoenegger and Ben Grodeck 4. Trolley Problems Reimagined: Sensitivity to Ratio, Risk, and Comparisons
Craig McKenzie, Dana Kay Nelkin, Samuel C. Rickless and Arseny Ryazanov 5. The Psychology of Metaethics: Evidence For and Against Folk Moral Objectivism
Lieuwe Zijlstra 6. The Explanatory Redundancy Challenge to Moral Properties
Thomas Pölzler 7. Belief Distributions and the Measure of Social Norms
Cuizhu Wang 8. Coming Full Circle: Incentives, Reactivity, and the Experimental Turn
Mariìa Jimeìnez Buedo Part 2: Normative Ethics and Legal and Political Philosophy 9. Virtues for Real-world Utilitarians
Stefan Schubert and Lucius Caviola 10. What Experiments Can Teach Us About Justice and Impartiality: Vindicating Experimental Political Philosophy
Aureìlien Allard and Florian Cova 11. A Behavioral Ethics Perspective on the Theory of Criminal Law and Punishment
Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg and Yuval Feldman 12. Behavioral Ethics and the Extent of Responsibility
Douglas Husak 13. Against Moorean Defences of Speciesism
François Jaquet Part 3: Applied Issues 14. Experimental Bioethics and the Case for Human Enhancement
Blanca Rodriìguez 15. The Use and Abuse of Moral Preferences in the Ethics of Self-Driving Cars
Norbert Paulo, Leonie Alina Möck and Lando Kirchmair 16. Adaptive Preferences: An Empirical Investigation of Feminist Perspectives
Urna Chakrabarty, Romy Feiertag, Anne-Marie McCallion, Brain McNiff, Jesse Prinz, Montaque Reynolds, Sukhvinder Shahi, Maya Von Ziegesar, Angella Yamamoto, and Tomasz Zyglewicz 17. Reactionary Attitudes: Strawson, Twitter, and the Black Lives Matter Movement
Anastasia Chan, Marinus Ferreira, and Mark Alfano
About the author
Hugo Viciana is an 'Emergia' talent attraction research fellow and lecturer at the Departamento de Filosofía, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. His previous work has been published in journals such as
Biology & Philosophy,
AJOB Empirical Bioethics,
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,
Psychological Science, and
PNAS.
Antonio Gaitán is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities (Philosophy, Language and Literature), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, España. His previous work on ethics and moral psychology has been published in journals such as
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice,
Journal of Moral Philosophy,
Teorema, and
PLoS One.
Fernando Aguiar is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (IFS-CSIC). He is a founding member of the Spanish Association of Experimental Philosophy (AEFEX). His work in experimental ethics, political philosophy, and moral psychology has been published in journals such as
Economics & Philosophy,
Journal of Economic Methodology, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and
Science and Engineering Ethics.
Summary
This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains, problems, and topics.