experimental philosophy

The original article in Slate http://www.slate.com/id/2137223/?nav=fo did have its share of hyperbole. You can excuse that on the grounds that it was a "popular" article. That does not affect the fact that work classified as "experimental" is among the most interesting stuff being done today.

I give Josh Greene an A+ for his article on Kant's joke--linked to the reply by various philosophical heavies to Velleman's remarks...http://leiterreports.typepad.com/.What I especially liked about the article was the way it managed to deflate deontological approaches to ethics.

I suspect that anyone working in Ancient Ethics could benefit from thinking about Greene's suggestion. Socrates can be made to seem very odd if you insist he's either a deontologist or a consequentialist. I once attended a Socrates Seminar led by the late Gregory Vlastos in which he seemed to suffer from an undefended philosophical commitment to some sort of deontological view, and that made his interpretation of Socrates (for me) most implausible.

I can't defend this in detail if any Ancient Philosopher should happen to read this; but, then this is a blog, not a journal article.....