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The new interdisciplinary field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues.
Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy is the place to go to see outstanding new work in the field, by both philosophers and psychologists.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Adrian Ziółkowski: Folk Knowledge Attributions and the Protagonist Projection Hypothesis
- 2: Alexandra Nolte, David Rose, and John Turri: Experimental Evidence that Knowledge Entails Justification
- 3: Akira Inoue, Masahiro Zenkyo, and Haruya Sakamoto: Making the Veil of Ignorance Work: Evidence from Survey Experiments
- 4: James R. Beebe: The Empirical Case for Folk Indexical Moral Relativism
- 5: Iris Berent, Melanie Platt, and Gwendolyn Sandoboe: Empiricism is Natural: It Arises from the Collision of Dualism and Essentialism
- 6: Larisa Heiphetz and Maureen A. Craig: Dehumanization and Perceptions of Immoral Intergroup Behavior
- 7: David Rose: Mentalizing Objects
- 8: Thomas Pölzler: Insufficient Effort Responding in Experimental Philosophy
- 9: Markus Kneer, David Colaço, Joshua Alexander, and Edouard Machery: On Second Thought: Reflections On The Reflection Defense
About the author
Tania Lombrozo is Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. Her research combines methods and insights from philosophy and psychology to address questions about explanation and understanding, learning, causal reasoning, conceptual representation, and social cognition. She is also a regular blogger for NPR's 13.7: Cosmos & Culture.
Joshua Knobe is Professor of Cognitive Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Much of his research is concerned with the impact of moral judgments on people's intuitions about matters that might at first appear to be entirely non-moral in nature.
Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. His books include Sentimental Rules (2004), Bound (2014) and, co-authored with Stephen Stich, Mindreading (2003). His current research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of philosophical problems.
Summary
The new interdisciplinary field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy is the place to go to see outstanding new work in the field, by both philosophers and psychologists.
