Experimental Philosophy

=What is Experimental Philosophy?= Philosophers often make claims about people’s intuitions regarding particular cases. Experimental philosophy aims to put these claims to the test using standard empirical methods.

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=X-Phi Papers=

Papers on Consciousness
[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00004074/ Justin Sytsma and Edouard Machery (2009). “How to study Folk Intuitions about Phenomenal Consciousness.” Philosophical Psychology, 22(1): 21-35.]

[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00004438/ Justin Sytsma (forthcoming). “Phenomenological Obviousness and the New Science of Consciousness.” Philosophy of Science, 76(5), December 2009.]

Papers on Cross-Cultural Differences in Intuitions
[http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ArchiveFolder/Research%20Group/Publications/NEI/NEIPT.html Jonathan Weinberg, Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich. 2001. “Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions.”  Philosophical Topics, 29, 429-460.]

[http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~stich/Publications/Papers/SemanticIntuitions.pdf Edouard Machery, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich. 2004. “Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style.”  Cognition, 92, B1-B12.]

[http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/hsarkissian/ChinaPhenomenal083008.pdf Bryce Huebner, Mike Bruno, and Hagop Sarkissian. forthcoming. "What does the nation of China think of phenomenal states?" European Journal of Philosophy.]

Papers on Epistemology
Joshua Alexander and Jonathan M. Weinberg, "Analytic Epistemology and Experimental Philosophy" Philosophy Compass, 2(2007): 56-80

[http://www.fsu.edu/~philo/A%20Stich%20in%20Time.pdf Michael Bishop, "Reflections on Cognitive and Epistemic Diversity: Does a Stich in Time Save Quine?" in D. Murphy & M. Bishop (eds), Stephen Stich and His Critics (Blackwell, in press)]

Adam Feltz, "Problems with the Appeal to Intuition in Epistemology," Philosophical Explorations, 11(2008): 131-141

[http://faculty.schreiner.edu/adfeltz/Papers/Know%20more.pdf Adam Feltz and Chris Zarpentine, "Do You Know More When It Matters Less?" Philosophical Psychology (forthcoming)]

Joshua May, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jay G. Hull, and Aaron Zimmerman, "Practical Interests, Relevant Alternatives, and Knowledge Attributions: An Empirical Study" European Review of Philosophy, special issue on Psychology and Experimental Philosophy (forthcoming)

Shaun Nichols, Stephen Stich and Jonathan M. Weinberg, "Metaskepticism: Meditations in Ethno-Epistemology" In S. Luper (ed.),  The Skeptics (Ashgate, 2003), pp. 227-247

Stacey Swain, Joshua Alexander, and Jonathan M. Weinberg, "The Instability of Philosophical Intuitions: Running Hot and Cold on Truetemp," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming)

Jonathan M. Weinberg, "How to Challenge Intuitions Empirically Without Risking Skepticism" Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 31 (2007): 318-343

Jonathan M. Weinberg, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich, "Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions" Philosophical Topics, 29 (2001): 429-460

Papers on Experimental Philosophy
[http://www.unc.edu/~knobe/ExperimentalPhilosophy.pdf Joshua Knobe. "What Is Experimental Philosophy" from The Philosophers’ Magazine]

[http://www.hum.utah.edu/philosophy/faculty/nichols/Papers/FolkconceptsFinal.htm Shaun Nichols. (2004) "Folk Concepts and Intuitions: From Philosophy to Cognitive Science" from Trends in Cognitive Science]

[http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a779329332&fulltext=713240928 Thomas Nadelhoffer and Eddy Nahmias. (2007) "The Past and Future of Experimental Philosophy" from Philosophical Explorations]

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Experimental Philosophy. "Some three score years ago, the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess found himself dissatisfied with “what are called ‘theories of truth’ in philosophical literature.” “The discussion has already lasted some 2500 years,” he wrote. “The number of participants amounts to a thousand, and the number of articles and books devoted to the discussion is much greater.” In this great ocean of words, he went on, the philosophers had often made bold statements about what “the man in the street” or “Das Volk'..."

Papers on Intentional Action
[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120120984/PDFSTART Frank Hindriks (2008). “Intentional Action and the Praise-Blame Asymmetry”. Philosophical Quarterly, 58 (233): 630-641.]

[http://www.unc.edu/~knobe/PhilStudies.pdf Joshua Knobe. (forthcoming). “The Concept of Intentional Action: A Case Study in the Uses of Folk Psychology.” Philosophical Studies.]

[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117997268/home Alessandro Lanteri (2009). “Elusive Lay Judgments of Intentionality and Moral Worth”. Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming.]

[http://alelanteri.googlepages.com/Lanterietal2008_web.pdf Alessandro Lanteri, Chiara Chelini, and Salvatore Rizzello (2008). “An Experimental Investigation of Emotions and Reasoning in the Trolley Problem”. Journal of Business Ethics, 83 (4): 789-804.]

[http://www.unc.edu/~knobe/NadelhofferExplorations.pdf Thomas Nadelhoffer. (forthcoming). “Bad acts, blameworthy agents, and intentional actions: Some problems for juror impartiality.” Philosophical Explorations.]

[http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/hsarkissian/The%20Folk%20Strike%20Back%20-%20PS.pdf Mark Phelan and Hagop Sarkissian. (2008). “The folk strike back: Or, why you didn’t do it intentionally, though it was bad and you knew it.” Philosophical Studies, 138(2): 291-298.]

[http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/hsarkissian/Trading%20for%20the%20Trade-Off%20Hypothesis.pdf Mark Phelan and Hagop Sarkissian. (2009). "Is the Trade-off Hypothesis worth trading for?" Mind &amp; Language 28(2): 164-80.]

[http://www.udel.edu/Philosophy/papers/adams2006.pdf Fred Adams. (2006). Intentions Confer Intentionality Upon Actions: A Reply to Knobe and Burra. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6, 132-146.] "Is intentionally doing A linked to the intention to do A? Knobe and Burra believe that the link between the English words ‘intention’ and ‘intentional’ may mislead philosophers and cognitive scientists to falsely believe that intentionally doing an action A requires one to have the intention to do A. Knobe and Burra believe that data from other language..."

[http://www.unc.edu/%7Eknobe/Feltz.pdf Adam Feltz (2007) The Knobe Effect: A Brief Overview. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 28, 265-277.] "Joshua Knobe (2003a) has discovered that the perceived goodness or badness of side effects of actions influences people's ascriptions of intentionality to those side effects. I present the paradigmatic cases that elicit what has been called the Knobe effect and offer some explanations of the Knobe effect. I put these explanations into two broad groups. One explains the Knobe effect by referring to our concept of intentional action. The other explains the Knobe effect without referring to our concept of intentional..."

Papers on Responsibility, Determinism, and Lay Intuitions
[http://gfp.typepad.com/online_papers/files/is_incompatibilism_intuitive_for_ppr_prepub.doc Eddy Nahmias, Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer,and Jason Turner. (forthcoming). “Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.]

[http://www.unc.edu/~knobe/Nichols-Knobe.pdf Shaun Nichols and Joshua Knobe. (forthcoming). “Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions.” Nous.]

[http://gfp.typepad.com/online_papers/files/moral_cognition.doc Robert Woolfolk, John Doris, and John Darley. (forthcoming). “Attribution and Alternate Possibilities: Identification and Situational Constraint as Factors in Moral Cognition.” Cognition.]

Manuel Vargas (2006) "Philosophy and the Folk: On Some Implications of Experimental Work for Philosophical Debates on Free Will" The Journal of Cognition and Culture 6: 1 & 2, pp. 249-264

[http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/hsarkissian/Is%20Belief%20in%20Free%20Will%20a%20Universal_final.pdf Hagop Sarkissian, Amita Chatterjee, Felipe De Brigard, Joshua Knobe, Shaun Nichols, Smita Sirker (forthcoming). "Is belief in free will a cultural universal?" Mind & Language]

Miscellaneous Papers
[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00004806/ Justin Sytsma (forthcoming). “The Proper Province of Philosophy: Conceptual Analysis and Empirical Investigation.” Review of Philosophy and Psychology.]

Critiques of Experimental Philosophy
[http://www.helsinki.fi/~amkauppi/phil/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Experimental_Philosophy.pdf Antti Kauppinen. (2007). The Rise and Fall of Experimental Philosophy. Philosophical Explorations. 10: 95-118.]

[http://www.smatthewliao.com/texts/liaointuitions.htm S. Matthew Liao. (forthcoming). A Defense of Intuitions. Philosophical Studies.]

[http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ludwig/mws2007ludwig.pdf Kirk Ludwig. (2007). The Epistemology of Thought Experiments: First vs. Third Person Approaches. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 31:128-159.]

[http://www.unc.edu/~knobe/Sosa.pdf Ernest Sosa. (2006). Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Intuition. Philosophical Studies. 132:99-107.]

=Books=

Edited Volumes
Experimental Philosophy. (Oxford University Press, 2008).
 * Reviews
 * Review in Metapsychology by Neil Levy, April 12, 2008
 * Review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews by Frank Jackson, December 6, 2008

Books Related to X-Phi
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Experiments in Ethics (Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College) "Appiah explores how the new empirical moral psychology relates to philosophical ethics. He elaborates a vision of naturalism that resists both temptations and traces an intellectual genealogy of the burgeoning discipline of 'experimental philosophy'."

Moral Psychology, Volume 1: The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness (Bradford Books)

Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity (Bradford Books)

Moral Psychology, Volume 3: The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development (Bradford Books)

=Press Coverage= The New New Philosophy
 * Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times

The X-Philes Philosophy meets the real world
 * Jon Lackman, Slate

Against Intuition
 * Christopher Shea, Chronicle of Higher Education

Next Big Thing
 * Anthony Appiah, Talk of the Nation on National Public Radio

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X-Phi Blogs
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X-Phi Related Blogs
Fragments of Consciousness
 * David Chalmers
 * http://fragments.consc.net/djc/atom.xml|short|max=3

My Mind is Made Up!
 * Justin Sytsma
 * http://mymindismadeup.net/feed/index.php|short|max=3

Natural Rationality
 * Benoit Hardy-Vallée
 * http://naturalrationality.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default|short|max=3

The Splintered Mind
 * Eric Schwitzgebel
 * http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/atom.xml|short|max=3

Think Tonk
 * Clayton Littlejohn
 * http://claytonlittlejohn.blogspot.com/atom.xml|short|max=3

Journals
Analysis
 * Published five articles on intentional action, then went on to reject all the later experimental philosophy papers that were submitted.

Cognition
 * Published a series of articles on moral cognition and on the relation between moral cognition and causal judgment.

Cognitive Science
 * No experimental philosophy articles yet but it seems like a good bet.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences
 * Publishes reviews of existing literature, including one on moral grammar and on the Knobe Effect.

Societies
Cognitive Science Society

Philosophy of Science Association

Society for Philosophy and Psychology

The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology

X-Phi Secrets
Experimental Philosophy T-Shirts

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