Experimental Philosophy [Hardcover]

Experimental philosophy is a new movement that seeks to return the discipline of philosophy to a focus on questions about how people actually think and feel. Departing from a long-standing tradition, experimental philosophers go out and conduct systematicexperimentsto reach a better understanding of people's ordinary intuitions about philosophically significant questions. Although the movement is only a few years old, it has already sparked an explosion of new research, challenging a number of cherished assumptions in both philosophy and cognitive science.

The present volume provides an introduction to the major themes of work in experimental philosophy, bringing together some of the most influential articles in the field along with a collection of new papers that explore the theoretical significance of this new research.

1. An Experimental Philosophy Manifesto,Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols
2. Normativity and Epistemic Institutions,Jonathan Weinberg, Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich
3. Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style,Edouard Macher, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich
4. Identification, Situational Constraint, and Social Cognition: Studies in the Attribution of Moral Responsibility,Rob Woolfolk, John Doris, and John Darley
5. Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?,Eddy Nahmias, Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, and Jason Turner
6. Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions,Shaun Nichols and Joshua Knobe
7. The Concept of Intentional Action: A Case Study in the Uses of Folk Psychology,Joshua Knobe
8. Bad Acts, Blameworthy Agents, and Inentional actions: Some Problems for Juror Impartiality,Thomas Nadelhoffer
9. Intentional Action: Two-and-a-Half Folk Concepts?,Fiery Cushman and Alfred Mele
10. Empirical Philosophy and Experimental Philosophy,Jesse Prinz
11. Abstract + Concrete=Paradox,l3y