Experimental Ethics

1. Introduction: Toward an Empirical Moral Philosophy
Christoph Luetge, Matthias Uhl, Hannes Rusch

Part I. Experimental Moral Philosophy?

2. Experimental Philosophy
Kwame Anthony Appiah

3. Chances, Problems, and Limits of Experimental Ethics
Christoph Luetge

4. A Brief History of Experimental Ethics
Niklas Dworazik, Hannes Rusch

Part II. Applied Experimental Ethics: Case Studies

5. The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Role of the Philosopher
Eric Schwitzgebel

6. Explaining the Knobe Effect
Verena Wagner

7. Trolleys and Double Effect in Experimental Ethics
Ezio Nucci

8. Utilitarianism, the Difference Principle, or Else? An Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Social Immobility on the Democratic Election of Distributive Rules
Stephan Wolf, Alexander Lenger

9. Value Assignments in Experimental Environmental Ethics
Ulrich Frey

Part III. On Methodology

10. Implicit Morality: A Methodological Survey
Nina Strohminger, Brendan Caldwell, Daryl Cameron, Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

11. How to Gauge Moral Intuitions? Prospects for a New Methodology
Martin Bruder, Attila Tanyi

12. Descriptive and Pragmatic Levels of Empirical Ethics: Utilizing the Situated Character of Moral Concepts, Judgment, and Decision-Making
Andreas Bunge, Alexander Skulmowski

13. Robust Intuitions, Experimental Ethics, and Experimental Economics: Bringing Reflective Equilibrium into the Lab
Fernando Aguiar, Antonio Gaitán, Blanca Rodríguez-López

Part IV. Critical Reflections

14. Experimental Philosophy Is Useful — But not in a Specific Way
Jacob Rosenthal

15. Intuitions, Experiments, and Armchairs
Nikil Mukerji

Part V. Future Perspectives

16. Large-scale Social Experiments in Experimental Ethics
Julian F. Müller

17. Philosophy as the Behaviorist Views It? Historical Parallels to the Discussion of the Use of Experimental Methods in Philosophy
Hannes Rusch

18. Outlook: Current Problems and Future Perspectives of Experimental Ethics
Christoph Luetge, Matthias Uhl, Hannes Rusch

Keywords: Philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Logic