Experiments in Ethics Appiah Kwame AnthonyPaperback
Experiments in Ethics Appiah Kwame AnthonyPaperback In the past few decades, scientists of human nature--including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists,…
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Experiments in Ethics Appiah Kwame AnthonyPaperback
In the past few decades, scientists of human nature--including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists--have explored the way we arrive at moral judgments. Research like this may help explain what, in fact, we do and feel. They have called into question commonplaces about character and offered troubling explanations for various moral intuitions.
In Experiments in Ethics, the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how the new empirical moral psychology relates to the age-old project of philosophical ethics.Some moral theorists hold that the realm of morality must be autonomous of the sciences; others maintain that science undermines the authority of moral reasons. But can it tell us what we ought to do or feel? Appiah elaborates a vision of naturalism that resists both temptations.
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