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Yet, the chances are that our own descendants will ask the same question, with the same incomprehension, about some of our practices today.

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Reviewed by John M. Doris, Washington University in St. Louis and Jesse J. Prinz, City University of New York Graduate Center

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How new is experimental philosophy?1 Wasn't Descartes, whose "mechanical philosophy" aimed to overturn Aristotelianism, really an experimental philosopher? After all, much of his attention was devoted to geometry and optics, and for a period he was revered among scholars as, principally, a sort of mathematical physicist. (That's why the one reference to him educated people mostly know is in talk of the "Cartesian" coordinates he helped invent.) He also spent much time and energy dissecting cows and other animals. Only later was he repositioned as, centrally, a theorist of mind and knowledge, whose primary concern had to do with the justification of belief.

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Whereas naturalism has exerted influence in many areas of philosophy (e.g. epistemology, philosophy of mind) one area where it is often still resisted is in ethics. But, Kwame Anthony Appiah's new book, Experiments in Ethics, argues for an experimental approach to ethics and moral philosophy. (Philosopundit)

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Following the successful Kamm Reading Group, Ethics Etc will shortly be holding another reading group on Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah’s book, Experiments in Ethics. Professor Appiah is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University and the current President of the American Philosophical Association.

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