Experiments in Ethics

Informationen zum Autor Kwame Anthony Appiah writes the Ethicist column for The New York Times Magazine . A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, he is the best-selling, award-winning author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity ; Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers ; The Ethics of Identity ; and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen . Klappentext Appiah explores how new empirical moral psychology relates to the age-old project of philosophical ethics, urging that the relation between empirical research and morality, now so often antagonistic, should be seen in terms of dialogue, not contest. He thereby shows how experimental philosophy is actually as old as philosophy itself. Zusammenfassung Appiah explores how new empirical moral psychology relates to the age-old project of philosophical ethics! urging that the relation between empirical research and morality! now so often antagonistic! should be seen in terms of dialogue! not contest. He thereby shows how experimental philosophy is actually as old as philosophy itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue 1. Introduction: The Waterless Moat 2. The Case against Character 3. The Case against Intuition 4. The Varieties of Moral Experience 5. The Ends of Ethics Notes Acknowledgments Index

Product details

• Authors: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Appiah Kwame Anthony
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780674034570
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03457-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College; Mary Flexner Lecture Series of; Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College; Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College; Mary Flexner Lecture Series of
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, Ethics and moral philosophy