Experiments in Ethics

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• Morality Studies

  Imagine that you are standing next to a railway track and you see a runaway trolley, with nobody on board, heading toward a group of five people down the track. The only way to save these people is to throw a switch that will divert the train to anot ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

• Right and Wrong: Psychologists vs. Philosophers

  Moral philosophers, naturally enough, want to make ethics look good. They want to make people look capable and respectable as moral agents. But they are working with difficult material. Humans are not as tidy, as thoughtful, or as disciplined as the ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

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  Philosophy and the other sciences

  Appiah makes his case for the impact of the results from scientific research (mainly in experimental psychology) on philosophical academics. When philosophers say that a virtuous character is what humans should strive for and believe that is an attainable ideal, what about experiments that seem to s ... (continue)

  Appiah makes his case for the impact of the results from scientific research (mainly in experimental psychology) on philosophical academics. When philosophers say that a virtuous character is what humans should strive for and believe that is an attainable ideal, what about experiments that seem to show that how we react depends on the situation we're in? We can say that helpfulness is a desirable character-trait, but when experiments show that our helpfulness depends on whether we are in a hurry or not, or even whether we smell fresh-baked croissants, what does that do to the idea of character?
  This book is very well written too.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 288 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0674026098
• ISBN-13: 9780674026094
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Pub date: Jan 15, 2008
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?

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