A Companion to Experimental Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Sytsma, Justin; Buckwalter, Wesley

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118661680
• Artikelnr.: 44872831

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors1. IntroductionPART I: Experimental Philosophy: Past, Present and Future2. Experimental Philosophy and the Philosophical TraditionStephen Stich and Kevin Tobia3. Philosophical Criticisms of Experimental PhilosophyTimothy Williamson4. Experimental Philosophy is Cognitive ScienceJoshua Knobe5. Armchair-friendly Experimental PhilosophyKaija Mortensen and Jennifer Nagel6. Going Positive by Going Negative: On Keeping X-Phi Relevant & DangerousJonathan M. Weinberg7. Early Modern Experimental PhilosophyPeter R. Anstey and Alberto Vanzo8. Nietzsche and Moral PsychologyDaniel Telech and Brian LeiterPART II: Areas of ResearchFree Will and Philosophy of Action9. The Folk Concept of Intentional Action: Empirical ApproachesFlorian Cova10. Traditional and Experimental Approaches to Free Will and Moral ResponsibilityGunnar Björnsson and Derk Pereboom11. Free Will and Experimental PhilosophyHoi-yee Chan, Max Deutsch and Shaun NicholsMoral and Political Philosophy12. Solving the Trolley ProblemJoshua D. Greene13. The Adaptive Logic of Moral LuckJustin W. Martin and Fiery Cushman14. Metaethics: Traditional and Empirical ApproachesAlexandra Plakias15. Aspects of Folk Morality: Objectivism and RelativismHagop Sarkissian16. The Behavior of EthicistsEric Schwitzgebel and Joshua Rust17. Experimental or Empirical Political PhilosophyNicole Hassoun18. Ownership RightsShaylene E. Nancekivell, J. Charles Millar, Pauline C. Summers and Ori FriedmanPhilosophy of Mind19. Attributions of ConsciousnessJustin Sytsma20. A Unified versus Componential View of Understanding MindsLily Tsoi21. The Group Mind in Commonsense PsychologyBryce Huebner22. Synesthesia as a Challenge for RepresentationalismBerit Brogaard23. Naturalistic Approaches to CreativityDustin Stokes and Elliot Samuel PaulEpistemology24. Knowledge Judgments in "Gettier" CasesJohn Turri25. Experiments on Contextualism and Interest Relative InvariantismÁngel Pinillos26. Evaluative Effects on Knowledge AttributionsJames R. BeebePhilosophy of Language27. ReferenceMike Dacey and Ron Mallon28. Experimental Pragmatics in Linguistics and PhilosophyMark Phelan29. Generics and Experimental PhilosophyAdam Lerner and Sarah-Jane LeslieMetaphysics30. Metaphysics and Cognitive ScienceL. A. Paul31. Experimental Philosophy and Causal AttributionsJonathan Livengood and David Rose32. Causal Models and Screening-offJuhwa Park and Steven A. Sloman33. Causal Search, Causal Modeling, and the FolkDavid DanksPhilosophy of Science34. Experimental Philosophy of ScienceEdouard Machery35. ExplanationTania Lombrozo36. The Concept of Innateness as an Object of Empirical EnquiryRichard SamuelsLogic and Reasoning37. Experimental Philosophical LogicDavid Ripley38. Experimental Philosophy meets Formal EpistemologyJonah N. Schupbach39. Experimental Approaches to the Study of ConditionalsIgor DouvenMetaphilosophy and Individual Differences40. Philosophical ExpertiseJoshua Alexander41. Intuitional StabilityJennifer Cole Wright42. Personality and Philosophical BiasAdam Feltz and Edward T. Cokely43. Experimental Philosophy and the Underrepresentation of WomenCarrie Figdor and Matt L. DrabekIndex