{"product_id":"experiments-in-ethics-9780674034570","title":"Experiments in Ethics","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. They have called into question commonplaces about character and offered troubling explanations for various moral intuitions. Research like this may help explain what, in fact, we do and feel. But can it tell us what we ought to do or feel? In \u003ci\u003eExperiments in Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how the new empirical moral psychology relates to the age-old project of philosophical ethics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome moral theorists hold that the realm of morality must be autonomous of the sciences; others maintain that science undermines the authority of moral reasons. Appiah elaborates a vision of naturalism that resists both temptations. He traces an intellectual genealogy of the burgeoning discipline of \"experimental philosophy,\" provides a balanced, lucid account of the work being done in this controversial and increasingly influential field, and offers a fresh way of thinking about ethics in the classical tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAppiah urges that the relation between empirical research and morality, now so often antagonistic, should be seen in terms of dialogue, not contest. And he shows how experimental philosophy, far from being something new, is actually as old as philosophy itself. Beyond illuminating debates about the connection between psychology and ethics, intuition and theory, his book helps us to rethink the very nature of the philosophical enterprise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppiah, Kwame Anthony:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kwame Anthony Appiah writes the Ethicist column for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, he is the best-selling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Identity\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52196517052690,"sku":"9780674034570","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_94b41b7a-0c80-4a27-8748-67a6df1fde40.jpg?v=1776151494","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/experiments-in-ethics-9780674034570","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}