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A visit with Robert Johnson, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Additional Interview Clips
Doing "armchair philosophy"
Types of reasoning
Moral Reasoning
What "data" means to a philosopher
The impact of empirical research on ethical philosophy
The state of ethics today
Collaboration with other philosophers at MU
Johnson's path to philosophy
Johnson's current book project
Teaching at Mizzou
Introduction to Research in Philosophy
Topics:
historyofphilosophy
ethics
Johnson discusses the discipline of philosophy and its subfield of ethics