An Evening with Kwame Anthony Appiah @ 7:00 PM Thu, Mar 6, Book Culture

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An Evening with Kwame Anthony Appiah
Thursday, March 6, 2008(7:00 PM)

Book Culture
536 W. 112th Street
New York
10025

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah will read from his new book, Experiments
in
Ethics. In the book, he explores how the new empirical moral psychology
relates
to the age-old project of philosophical ethics. Some moral theorists hold
that
the realm of morality must be autonomous of the sciences; others maintain
that
science undermines the authority of moral reasons. Appiah elaborates a
vision
of naturalism that resists both temptations. He traces an intellectual
genealogy of the burgeoning discipline of "experimental philosophy,"
provides a
balanced, lucid account of the work being done in this controversial and
increasingly influential field, and offers a fresh way of thinking about
ethics
in the classical tradition.

Appiah urges that the relation between empirical research and morality, now
so
often antagonistic, should be seen in terms of dialogue, not contest. And
he
shows how experimental philosophy, far from being something new, is
actually as
old as philosophy itself. Beyond illuminating debates about the connection
between psychology and ethics, intuition and theory, his book helps us to
rethink the very nature of the philosophical enterprise.

Kwame Anthony Appiah is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of
Philosophy and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His
books
include The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers.

For full details, including attendance, visit:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/434390

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