A Companion to Experimental Philosophy

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Justin Sytsma, Wesley Buckwalter
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 28, 2016 - Philosophy - 648 pages

This is a comprehensive collection of essays that explores cutting-edge work in experimental philosophy, a radical new movement that applies quantitative and empirical methods to traditional topics of philosophical inquiry.

  • Situates the discipline within Western philosophy and then surveys the work of experimental philosophers by sub-discipline
  • Contains insights for a diverse range of fields, including linguistics, cognitive science, anthropology, economics, and psychology, as well as almost every area of professional philosophy today
  • Edited by two rising scholars who take a broad and inclusive approach to the field
  • Offers a complete introduction for non-specialists and students to the central approaches, findings, challenges, and controversies in experimental philosophy
 

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Contents

Cover
Acknowledgments
Experimental Philosophy and the Philosophical
Study Philosophical Intuitions Using the Methods
References
Philosophical Criticisms of Experimental
Concepts
References
Understanding Minds
References
The Group Mind
Synesthesia as a Challenge
Naturalistic Approaches to Creativity
Knowledge Judgments in Gettier Cases
Relative Invariantism
Reference

Acknowledgment
Going Positive by Going Negative
Early Modern Experimental Philosophy1
Nietzsche and Moral Psychology
References
The Folk Concept of Intentional Action
References
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
References
Free Will and Experimental Philosophy
References
Solving the Trolley Problem
Pushing Moral Buttons
Experiment
The Adaptive Logic of Moral Luck
References
Metaethics
Aspects of Folk Moralitya
Ownership Rights
Attributions of Consciousness
Phenomenal Consciousness
Philosophy
References
Generics and Experimental Philosophy
F MetaphysicsExperience Metaphysics
Blame
Causal Models and ScreeningOff
Causal Search Causal Modeling and the Folk
References
Experimental Philosophy of Science
Explanation
Experimental Philosophy and Causal
The Concept of Innateness as an Object
Experimental Philosophical Logic
References
Experimental Approaches to the Study
References
Philosophical ExpertisePhilosophical Expertise
Intuitional Stability
Personality and Philosophical Bias
Underrepresentation of Women
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About the author (2016)

Justin Sytsma is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. As a practitioner of experimental philosophy, he uses empirical methods to conduct his research into the areas of the philosophy of psychology and the philosophy of mind. He is co-author of The Theory and Practice of Experimental Philosophy(2016) and editor of Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind (2014). He has also published in a variety of peer reviewed journals, including Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy of Science, Journal of Consciousness Studies, and Philosophy Compass.

Wesley Buckwalter is Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and the Philosophical Science Laat the University of Waterloo, Canada. He completed his PhD in Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduat Center, USA. He has published dozens of articles in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science on a wide range of topics including knowledge, belief, assertion, luck, intuition, methodology, functionalism, consciousness, emotion, and fiction.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to Experimental Philosophy
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
EditorsJustin Sytsma, Wesley Buckwalter
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2016
ISBN1118661699, 9781118661697
Length648 pages
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