Experiments in Ethics

In the past few decades, scientists of human nature--including experimental & cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists,, & behavioral economists--have explored the way we arrive at moral judgments. They have called into question commonplaces about character & offered troubling explanations for various moral intuitions. Research like this may help explain what, in fact, we do & feel. But can it tell us what we ought to do or feel? This bookexplores how the new empirical moral psychology relates to the age-old project of philosophical ethics.