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This engaging book surveys influential recent attempts to bring empirical studies to bear specifically on moral philosophy, in a style that is accessible to non-specialists yet philosophically nuanced. Professor Appiah is sympathetic to the idea that moral philosophy has a good deal to learn from experimental work, but skeptical of the suggestion that this approach constitutes a radical departure from the philosophical tradition. He begins with a fascinating and erudite characterization of philosophy as a discipline that only "calved off" from psychology around the beginning of the twentieth century. Until then, experimental works and empirical investigation ("natural philosophy") were interwoven with metaphysical theorizing and deductive argumentation, and psychology was only just becoming a distinct academic discipline in its own right. Trying to distinguish metaphysical from psychological elements in the work of such canonical figures of European philosophy as Plato and Aristotle, Rene Descartes, John Locke, David Hume and J. S. Mill, Appiah claims, is like "trying to peel a raspberry." -- Justin D'Arms "Times Literary Supplement" (03/06/2009)
- Natalie Gold, Times Higher Education, 27 March 2008
"Appiah's project is to bring economics, psychology and philosophy back together; to
reconstitute the moral sciences. His style is chatty and erudite, full of stories and
literary references."
reconstitute the moral sciences. His style is chatty and erudite, full of stories and
literary references."
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At least since Homer, in the European traditionbut surely everywhere and everywhen in societies both oral and literate communities have fashioned themselves around stories of the past, chronicles that constitute "us" as Hellenes or Yorubas or Americans. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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At least since Homer, in the European traditionbut surely everywhere and everywhen in societies both oral and literate communities have fashioned themselves around stories of the past, chronicles that constitute "us" as Hellenes or Yorubas or Americans. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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