The Flexner Lectures are presented at Bryn Mawr College and published by Harvard University Press. K. Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, delivered the 2005 Mary Flexner Lectures. In EXPERIMENTS IN ETHICS, published in 2008, Appiah explores how the new empirical moral psychology relates to the age-old project of philosophical ethics. In this study, he 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.

“Brilliant...I wish every philosopher wrote like Appiah. Experiments in Ethics is clear and accessible (and often very funny), and Appiah is generous when it comes to discussing the work of those he disagrees with. But this book has teeth, particularly when Appiah looks hard at the emphasis on moral dilemmas.” —Paul Bloom, New York Times Book Review