There is an editorial comment in today's Guardian about X-Phi, which stands for "Experimental Philosophy", which seeks to solve philosophical problems such as those of ethics by employing experiment, not just armchair thinking. It's symbol is a blazing armchair! Here is a longer article about it that I found via Google: - http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10638 - This supports my contention that the personal and physical are related and cannot be divorced from one another.