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All in the Family: The History and Philosophy of Experimental Philosophy [PDF]
Experimental philosophy (or “x-phi”) is a way of doing philosophy. It is “traditional” philosophy, but with a little something extra: In addition to the expected philosophical arguments and engagement, x-phi involves the use of empirical methods to test ...
Gonnerman, Chad +3 more
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Experimental philosophy and the history of philosophy [PDF]
Contemporary experimental philosophers sometimes use versions of an argument from the history of philosophy to defend the claim that what they do is philosophy. Although experimental philosophers conduct surveys and carry out what appear to be experiments in psychology, making them methodologically different from most analytic philosophers working ...
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A Cue for Rational Reasoning: Introducing a Reference Point in Cognitive Reflection Tasks
The dual process framework posits that we reason using the quick System 1, and the deliberate System 2, both of which are part of our “adaptive toolbox”.
Kaja Damnjanović +4 more
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EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS [PDF]
This article is a prelude to an experimental study of the preference concept in economics. I argue that a new empirical approach calledexperimental philosophy of scienceis a promising approach to advance the philosophy of economics. In particular, I discuss two debates in the field, the neuroeconomics controversy and the commonsensible realism debate ...
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Kant and experimental philosophy [PDF]
While Kant introduces his critical philosophy in continuity with the experimental tradition begun by Francis Bacon, it is widely accepted that his Copernican revolution places experimental physics outside the bounds of science. Yet scholars have recently contested this view.
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Responsibility Without Freedom? Folk Judgements About Deliberate Actions
A long-standing position in philosophy, law, and theology is that a person can be held morally responsible for an action only if they had the freedom to choose and to act otherwise. Thus, many philosophers consider freedom to be a necessary condition for
Tillmann Vierkant +5 more
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Experimental philosophy of memory [PDF]
Experimental philosophy is now some twenty years old and has a large body of work to its credit. Little of this work focusses directly on memory, but it has, as the philosophy of memory has come into its own over the last several years, become ...
Michaelian, Kourken +3 more
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Philosophy and 'the Life of the Law' [PDF]
Focusing on the criminal law, I discuss three ways in which analytical philosophers might contribute to the development or health of the law (and of legal theory). The first is as humble under-labourers, who seek only to clarify legal rules and doctrines,
Duff, R A, R. A. DUFF
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Investigating conceptions of intentional action by analyzing participant generated scenarios
We describe and report on results of employing a new method for analyzing lay conceptions of intentional and unintentional action. Instead of asking people for their conceptual intuitions with regard to construed scenarios, we asked our participants to ...
Alexander eSkulmowski +4 more
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Advances in Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Methodology
The rise of experimental philosophy is generating pressing methodological questions for philosophers. Can findings from experimental studies hold any significance for philosophy as a discipline?
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