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4Experiments in moral and political philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains, problems, and topics. Philosophers are exploring the ways in which empirical approaches can transform our idea of the good, our understanding of the social nature of norms and morality, as well as our methods of fulfilling ethical goals. The chapters…Read more
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7Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains, problems, and topics. Philosophers are exploring the ways in which empirical approaches can transform our idea of the good, our understanding of the social nature of norms and morality, as well as our methods of fulfilling ethical goals. The chapters…Read more
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27Guilt Without Fault: Accidental Agency in the Era of Autonomous VehiclesScience and Engineering Ethics 28 (2): 1-22. 2022.The control principle implies that people should not feel guilt for outcomes beyond their control. Yet, the so-called ‘agent and observer puzzles’ in philosophy demonstrate that people waver in their commitment to the control principle when reflecting on accidental outcomes. In the context of car accidents involving conventional or autonomous vehicles, Study 1 established that judgments of responsibility are most strongly associated with expressions of guilt–over and above other negative emotion…Read more
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22Introducción a la ética experimentalEditorial Cátedra. 2020.En el terreno de la moral, el contraste entre lo ¿que el filósofo Wilfrid Sellars denominó «la ¿imagen manifiesta» y la «imagen científica» es enorme y tiene unas consecuencias prácticas ineludibles. Este libro reduce la distancia entre esa imagen manifiesta y la imagen científica, dotando al lector de referencias fundamentales, enfoques diversos y un amplio abanico de temáticas a partir de investigaciones experimentales sobre nuestra conducta moral.
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13Internal and External Validity in Experimental Ethics and EconomicsProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 49 5-10. 2018.According to a classical work on experimental design internal validity “refers to the approximate validity with which we infer that a relationship between two variables is causal or that the absence of a relationship implies the absence of cause”. External validity “refers to the approximate validity with which we can infer that the presumed causal relationship can be generalized to and across alternate measures of the cause and effect and across different types of persons, settings, and times”.…Read more
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21To kill a bee: The aptness and moralistic heuristics of reactive attitudesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 41. 2018.
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227Rational choice, social identity, and beliefs about oneselfPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (4): 547-571. 2009.Social identity poses one of the most important challenges to rational choice theory, but rational choice theorists do not hold a common position regarding identity. On one hand, externalist rational choice ignores the concept of identity or reduces it to revealed preferences. On the other hand, internalist rational choice considers identity as a key concept in explaining social action because it permits expressive motivations to be included in the models. However, internalist theorists tend to …Read more
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Confianza y racionalidadEducação E Filosofia 8 239-245. 1994.En este artículo se presenta un análisis de la confianza como un proceso de elección racional, poniéndese en cuestión la capacidad de la teoría de la elección racional estándar para dar cuenta del fenómeno. Por eso se prefiere abordar la confianza desde la perspectiva de la racionalidad limitada.
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60Whose Impartiality? An Experimental Study of Veiled Stakeholders, Involved Spectators and Detached ObserversEconomics and Philosophy 29 (2): 155-174. 2013.We present an experiment designed to investigate three different mechanisms to achieve impartiality in distributive justice. We consider a first-person procedure, inspired by the Rawlsian veil of ignorance, and two third-party procedures, an involved spectator and a detached observer. First-person veiled stakeholders and involved spectators are affected by an initially unfair distribution that, in the stakeholders’ case, is to be redressed. We find substantial differences in the redressing task.…Read more
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661Filosofía Experimental y Economía Experimental: un enfoque híbridoIsegoría 51 623-648. 2014.En este artículo presentamos las principales corrientes de la Filosofía Experimental y atendemos a una de las críticas más severas a la que se ha sometido este reciente programa de renovación metodológica. Según Antti Kauppinen la Filosofía Experimental está condenada al fracaso porque no puede obtener mediante sus métodos el tipo de intuiciones que interesan a los filósofos –las intuiciones robustas del hablante competente. Aun aceptando parte de las críticas de Kauppinen, en este artículo sost…Read more
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561Moral distance in dictators gamesJudgment and Decision Making 3 (4): 344-354. 2008.We perform an experimental investigation using a dictator game in which individuals must make a moral decision —to give or not to give an amount of money to poor people in the Third World. A questionnaire in which the subjects are asked about the reasons for their decision shows that, at least in this case, moral motivations carry a heavy weight in the decision: the majority of dictators give the money for reasons of a consequentialist nature. Based on the results presented here and of other ana…Read more
Fernando Aguiar
Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Científicas
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
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Consejo Superior De Investigaciones CientíficasInstitute of PhilosophyProfessor
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