The Plights Of Greenean Experimental Ethics And Its Ways Out

Greenean Experimental Ethics is the most representative in the emerging research of experimental ethics.It has been criticized by many researchers.The content of criticism can be summarized into five categories: "Yes" and "should",metaphysical naturalistic fallacy,semantic dislocation,empirical theory load,experimental operation of asymmetry and uncertainty.It is not hard for Greenean Experimental Ethics to answer or evade these questions by reaffirming its core ideas.The problem of "Yes" and "should" can be dealt from the three angles of argument,validity and reason.Construct the argument of "the same crime" can reduce the effect of metaphysical naturalism accusation to the greatest extent.Distinguish internalism and externalism of moral semantics can make the problem of semantic dislocation self-defeat.The difference between intuition and non-intuition of evidence-based argument can bypass the problem of load of empirical theory.The rationality of denying or defining asymmetry and uncertainty can deal with the problem of experimental operation.Such a new response to an existing challenge is clearly no different from nonresponse and still amounts to a total rejection of criticism.This fact means that the dialogue between the researchers of experimental ethics and those of traditional ethics is still completely out of the question: there is no change in the disorganization of the debates---each person speaks his or her own language.If the two sides really want to start a dialogue,they should communicate better than they do now: criticism and response should come from within,not from outside.Therefore,researchers' criticism of Greenean Experimental Ethics should be carefully analyzed and dealt with.Researchers' criticism of Greenean Experimental Ethics can be further refined and refined into four levels of new dilemmas: conceptualization,position,methodology and experimental operation.The conceptual dilemma encountered by Greenean Experimental Ethics is mainly the convergence of the trolley problem domain and the distinction between reason and emotion.The main problems encountered by Greenean Experimental Ethics are ethical naturalism,internalism and externalism in moral judgment.The methodological dilemma encountered by Greenean Experimental Ethics is mainly the gap between value and action,the method of argument and the effectiveness of argument.Difficulties encountered by Greenean Experimental Ethics in experimental operation are mainly the effectiveness of intuition and multiple realizable problems.Greenean Experimental Ethics can find the way out of these four levels of new dilemmas by clarifying,defining the research purpose,explaining the type of argument,and giving the perfect scheme.The approach to describe the degenerate trolley problem,and the way to explain that the definition of morality depends on emotional factors is the way out of the conceptual dilemma.It points out that the superiority of the naturalistic position of greenean and the moral judgment theory based on extended mind is the way out of the position dilemma.The way out of the methodological dilemma is to explain the validity of the causal-psychological explanation of the defensive action and to clarify the nature of the causal reasoning of the greenean argument.The way out of the experimental operating dilemma is to make up for the defects of questionnaire survey and f MRI.However,none of the above solutions should be satisfactory to either traditional or experimental ethics researchers,as they can not help advance the study of ethics.For example,Greenean Experimental Ethics can not get substantial development because of solving criticism,nor can the ethical problems dealt with by Greenean Experimental Ethics be further studied.From a conceptual and empirical point of view,it can be found that virtual reality technology should be a new way for Greenean Experimental Ethics to transcend the dilemma of the existing methodology.The combination of virtual reality technology and functional magnetic resonance imaging technology,and the combination of virtual reality technology and non-invasive Optical imaging method can make the research results of green's experimental ethics more valuable.They can make more substantial impetus to the development of ethical theory.