A companion to experimental philosophy / / edited by Justin Sytsma and Wesley Buckwalter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820454603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken : , : Wiley, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-118-66169-9; 1-119-09904-8; 1-78684-878-3; 1-118-66165-6; 1-118-66168-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (862 pages)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to philosophy ; ; 61.; THEi Wiley ebooks.
• Disciplina: 107.2
• Soggetti: Philosophy - Research
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Experimental Philosophy; 1 Experimental Philosophy and the Philosophical Tradition; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 What Are Philosophical Intuitions?; 1.3 Why Do Experimental Philosophers Want to Study Philosophical Intuitions Using the Methods of Empirical Science?; 1.4 The Expertise Defense; References; 2 Philosophical Criticisms of Experimental Philosophy; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 "Philosophical Intuitions"; 2.3 Proper Domains for the Application of Concepts; 2.4 Further Questions about the Parity Defense; 2.5 Acts of Judging and Evidence2.6 Error-fragility; References; 3 Experimental Philosophy Is Cognitive Science; 3.1; 3.2; 3.3; 3.4; 3.5; 3.6; 3.7; 3.8; Acknowledgment; References; 4 Armchair-Friendly Experimental Philosophy; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Three Experimentalist Challenges to the Armchair; 4.3 What Is Armchair Philosophy?; 4.4 Rebutting the Three Experimentalist Challenges, Experimentally; 4.5 Empirically Extending and Enhancing the Reach of the Armchair; 4.6 Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; 5 Going Positive by Going ; Negative; 5.1 On the Philosophical Relevance and Methodological Danger of Experimental Philosophy5.2 The Prehistory of X-phi: Armchair Philosophy's Reliance on Armchair Psychology; 5.3 Noise, Signal, and Experimental Philosophy; 5.4 Going Positive By Going Negative; 5.5 X-phi Tools for the (Philosophical) Masses?; References; 6 Early Modern Experimental Philosophy1; 6.1 Experimental Philosophy and Experiments; 6.2 Experimental Philosophy and Experimental Natural History; 6.3 Experimental Philosophy and Medicine; 6.4 Newtonianism and Experimental Philosophy; 6.5 Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Holland and France6.6 Experimental Philosophy and Moral Philosophy; 6.7 The Eclipse of Early Modern Experimental Philosophy; 6.8 Early Modern Experimental Philosophy and Contemporary x-phi; References; 7 Nietzsche and Moral Psychology; 7.1 Moralities are Symptoms of the Affects; 7.2 The Doctrine of Types; 7.3 Epiphenomenalism; 7.4 Nietzsche's Strength Model of Self-Control; 7.5 Conclusion; References; Part II: Areas of Research; A. Free Will and Philosophy of Action; 8 The Folk Concept of Intentional Action; 8.1 Two Puzzles for Intentional Action: The Knobe Effect and the Skill Effect8.2 Normative and Evaluative Considerations: A Constitutive Component of Intentional Action, or Just a Bias?; 8.3 A Knobe Effect without Evaluative Considerations?; 8.4 The Multiple Meanings of "Intentionally"; 8.5 What Consequences for Action Theory?; Acknowledgments; References; 9 Traditional and Experimental Approaches to Free Will and Moral Responsibility; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The Relevance of Experimental Studies of Responsibility Judgments; 9.3 An Error Theory for Incompatibilist Intuitions; 9.4 Manipulation; 9.5 Variantism and Invariantism