Experimental Ethics

Fernando Aguiar, IESA Cordoba, SpainMartin Bruder, University of Konstanz, GermanyAndreas Bunge, University of Osnabrück, GermanyBrendan Caldwell, Duke University, Durham, NC, USADaryl Cameron, University of Iowa, USANiklas Dworazik, University of Osnabrück, GermanyUlrich Frey, University of Giessen, GermanyAntonio Gaitán, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, SPAINAlexander Lenger, University of Freiburg i.B., GermanyChristoph Luetge, TU München, GermanyNikil Mukerji, LMU Munich, GermanyJulian F. Müller, TU München, GermanyEzio Di Nucci, University of Duisburg-Essen, GermanyBlanca Rodríguez Lopez, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Jacob Rosenthal, University of Konstanz, GermanyHannes Rusch, TU München, GermanyJana Schaich Borg, Duke University, Durham, NC, USAEric Schwitzgebel, University of California, Riverside, CA, USAWalter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University, Durham, NC, USAAlexander Skulmowski, University of Osnabrück, GermanyNina Strohminger, Duke University, Durham, NC, USAAttila Tanyi, University of Konstanz, GermanyVerena Wagner, University of Konstanz, GermanyStephan Wolf, University of Freiburg i.B., GermanyMatthias Uhl, TU München, Germany

Moral philosophy is no longer being pursued from arm-chairs. Instead, ethical questions are dissected in the experimental lab. This volume enables its readers to immerse themselves into Experimental Ethics' history, its current topics and future perspectives, its methodology, and the criticism it is subject to.

List of Contributors PART I : EXPERIMENTAL MORAL PHILOSOPHY? 1. Introduction: Towards an Empirical Moral Philosophy; C. Lutge, M. Uhl and H. Rusch 2. Experimental Philosophy; K.A. Appiah 3. Chances, Problems and Limits of Experimental Ethics; C. Lutge 4. A Brief History of Experimental Ethics; N. Dworazik and H. Rusch PART II: APPLIED EXPERIMENTAL ETHICS: CASE STUDIES Introduction 5. The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Role of the Philosopher; E. Schwitzgebel 6. Explaining the Knobe Effect; V. Wagner 7. Trolleys and Double Effect in Experimental Ethics; E. Di Nucci 8. Utilitarianism, the Difference Principle, or Else? An Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Social Immobility on the Democratic Election of Distributive Rules; S. Wolf and A. Lenger 9. Value Assignments in Experimental Environmental Ethics; U. Frey PART III: ON METHODOLOGY Introduction 10. Implicit Morality - A Methodological Survey; N. Strominger et al 11. How to Gauge Moral Intuitions? Prospects for a New Methodology; M. Bruder and A. Tanyi 12. Descriptive and Pragmatic Levels of Empirical Ethics; A. Bunge and A. Skulmowski 13. Robust Intuitions, Experimental Ethics and Experimental Economics: Bringing Reflective Equilibrium into the Lab; F. Aguiar et al PART IV: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS Introduction 14. Experimental Philosophy is Useful - But not in a Specific Way; J. Rosenthal 15. Intuitions, Experiments, and Armchairs; N. Mukerji PART V: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Introduction 16. Large-scale Social Experiments in Experimental Ethics; J.F. Muller 17. Philosophy as the Behaviorist Views It?; H. Rusch 18. Outlook Index