Experimental Ethics: Toward an Empirical Moral Philosophy

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Toward an Empirical Moral Philosophy....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Experimental Philosophy....Pages 7-25
Chances, Problems, and Limits of Experimental Ethics....Pages 26-37
A Brief History of Experimental Ethics....Pages 38-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-58
The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Role of the Philosopher....Pages 59-64
Explaining the Knobe Effect....Pages 65-79
Trolleys and Double Effect in Experimental Ethics....Pages 80-93
Utilitarianism, the Difference Principle, or Else? An Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Social Immobility on the Democratic Election of Distributive Rules....Pages 94-111
Value Assignments in Experimental Environmental Ethics....Pages 112-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-132
Implicit Morality: A Methodological Survey....Pages 133-156
How to Gauge Moral Intuitions? Prospects for a New Methodology....Pages 157-174
Descriptive and Pragmatic Levels of Empirical Ethics: Utilizing the Situated Character of Moral Concepts, Judgment, and Decision-Making....Pages 175-190
Robust Intuitions, Experimental Ethics, and Experimental Economics: Bringing Reflective Equilibrium into the Lab....Pages 191-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-210
Experimental Philosophy Is Useful — But not in a Specific Way....Pages 211-226
Intuitions, Experiments, and Armchairs....Pages 227-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-246
Large-scale Social Experiments in Experimental Ethics....Pages 247-263
Philosophy as the Behaviorist Views It? Historical Parallels to the Discussion of the Use of Experimental Methods in Philosophy....Pages 264-282
Outlook: Current Problems and Future Perspectives of Experimental Ethics....Pages 283-287
Back Matter....Pages 289-294