Experimental philosophy is the name for a recent movement whose participants use the methods of experimental psychology to probe the way people make judgments that bear on debates in philosophy.
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For the past year, a group of us has been kicking around the idea of creating a Society for Experimental Philosophy. The idea would be to have meetings at the three APA events each year. The main goal would be......
At the end of the pre-SPP experimental philosophy workshop, Rob Wilson correctly suggested that we needed to think more carefully about why so few women have been active in the field so far. I, for one, have given this some......
Something on the lighter side for the summer. I'm reading Mary Roach's new book, Bonk (not nearly as good as her earlier Stiff). In a chapter on the relation between female orgasm and fertility, Roach discusses the work of the......
Having just returned from Philly, I first wanted to quickly mention what a success the Pre-SPP experimental philosophy workshop was. Out of the 200 people who attended the main SPP, 80+ registered for and attended the two day x-phi workshop!......
"Experimental philosophy", as a movement within philosophy, has so far been almost entirely focused on testing people's intuitions and judgments about philosophical puzzle cases. In this post on the Underblog of The Splintered Mind, I argue for a broader vision......
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