A brief history of experimental ethics

Niklas Dworazik

Hannes Rusch

pp. 38-56

in: Christoph Luetge, Hannes Rusch, Matthias Uhl (eds), Experimental ethics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Abstract

The recent years have seen a continual rise of interest in the empirical study of questions traditionally located in moral philosophy, that is, studies in Experimental Ethics. Figure 4.1 shows the respective trends of publication numbers listed in the most prominent online repository for philosophical research, philpapers.org, for the last three decades.