Readership: Students and scholars of philosophy and psychology.
Edited by Joshua Knobe, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UNC Chapel Hill, and Shaun Nichols, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona
"an admirable introduction to the experimental philosophy movement" - Richard Holton, Times Literary Supplement
"This book is the first to package what is exciting and new about this movement; it collects the most important papers by the leading experimental philosophers...As such it is essential reading...This is an exciting read-it's not often that something so radical and new comes along in philosophy." - Finn Spicer The Philosophers' Magazine
1: Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols: An Experimental Philosophy Manifesto 2: Jonathan Weinberg, Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich: Normativity and Epistemic Institutions 3: Edouard Macher, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich: Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style 4: Rob Woolfolk, John Doris, and John Darley: Identification, Situational Constraint, and Social Cognition: Studies in the Attribution of Moral Responsibility 5: Eddy Nahmias, Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, and Jason Turner: Is Incompatibilism Intuitive? 6: Shaun Nichols and Joshua Knobe: Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions 7: Joshua Knobe: The Concept of Intentional Action: A Case Study in the Uses of Folk Psychology 8: Thomas Nadelhoffer: Bad Acts, Blameworthy Agents, and Inentional actions: Some Problems for Juror Impartiality 9: Fiery Cushman and Alfred Mele: Intentional Action: Two-and-a-Half Folk Concepts? 10: Jesse Prinz: Empirical Philosophy and Experimental Philosophy 11: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: Abstract + Concrete=Paradox 12: Ernest Sosa: How Are Experiments Relevant to Intuitions?