“Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy”, a new entry into the Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory series, edited by Hugo Viciana, Antonio Gaitán, and Fernando Aguiar, comprises 17 chapters. See below for the table of contents. Part 1 – Methods and Foundations Part 2 – Normative Ethics and Legal and Political Philosophy Part…
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The Folk Concept of Luck
This text was first published at xphiblog.com on February 28, 2019. Discussions of moral luck usually start by presenting a pair of agents who engage in the same behavior but bring about very different outcomes. Drunk driving is the usual example. One driver – the lucky driver – arrives home without harming anyone. The second…
Hot Off The Press: “Priority of Needs?”
Members of the interdisciplinary research group “Need-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures”, funded by the German Research Foundation, have summarized the results of more than six years of research in the volume “Priority of Needs? An Informed Theory of Need-Based Justice”, edited by Bernhard Kittel and Stefan Traub. The research group’s mission statement reads: The objective…
Hot Off The Press: “Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy – Volume 5”
Volume 5 of the “Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy”, edited by Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols, just hit the shelves! It comprises a total of 16 chapters on no less than 480 pages. See below for the table of contents. Literature Knobe, Joshua, and Shaun Nichols (eds.) (2024): Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy. Volume 5….
Hot Off The Press: “Empirische Studien zu Fragen der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit”
Needs are something that fundamentally defines us as human beings. In “Empirische Studien zu Fragen der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit” (Empirical Studies on Questions of Need-Based Distributive Justice) I recap a series of vignette studies that examine the role that needs play in dealing with problems of distributive justice. While needs are often underrepresented in discussions of distributive…
Hot Off The Press: “The Compact Compendium of Experimental Philosophy”
“The Compact Compendium of Experimental Philosophy”, a new entry into the De Gruyter Reference series, brings together experimental philosophers from around the globe to provide interested readers with insights into many topics currently researched in x-phi. See below for the table of contents. Part 1 – The Philosophy of Experimental Philosophy Part 2 – Topics…