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.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Experimental Philosophy: Past, Present and Future
• Experimental Philosophy and the Philosophical Tradition
• Philosophical Criticisms of Experimental Philosophy
• Experimental Philosophy Is Cognitive Science
• Armchair-Friendly Experimental Philosophy
• Going Positive by Going Negative: On Keeping X-PhiRelevant and Dangerous
• Early Modern Experimental Philosophy
• Nietzsche and Moral Psychology
• Areas of Research
• Free Will and Philosophy of Action
• The Folk Concept of Intentional Action: Empirical Approaches
• Traditional and Experimental Approaches to Free Will and Moral Responsibility
• Free Will and Experimental Philosophy
• Moral and Political Philosophy
• Solving the Trolley Problem
• The Adaptive Logic of Moral Luck
• Metaethics: Traditional and Empirical Approaches
• Aspects of Folk Morality*: Objectivism and Relativism
• The Behavior of Ethicists
• Experimental or Empirical Political Philosophy
• Ownership Rights
• Philosophy of Mind
• Attributions of Consciousness
• A Unified versus Componential View of Understanding Minds
• The Group Mind: In Commonsense Psychology
• Synesthesia as a Challenge for Representationalism
• Naturalistic Approaches to Creativity
• Epistemology
• Knowledge Judgments in “Gettier” Cases
• Experiments on Contextualism and Interest Relative Invariantism
• Evaluative Effects on Knowledge Attributions
• Philosophy of Language
• Reference
• Experimental Pragmatics in Linguistics and Philosophy
• Generics and Experimental Philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Experience, Metaphysics, and Cognitive Science
• Experimental Philosophy and Causal Attribution
• Causal Models and Screening-Off
• Causal Search, Causal Modeling, and the Folk
• Philosophy of Science
• Experimental Philosophy of Science
• Explanation
• The Concept of Innateness as an Object of Empirical Enquiry
• Logic and Reasoning
• Experimental Philosophical Logic
• Experimental Philosophy Meets Formal Epistemology
• Experimental Approaches to the Study of Conditionals
• Metaphilosophy and Individual Differences
• Philosophical Expertise
• Intuitional Stability
• Personality and Philosophical Bias
• Experimental Philosophy and the Underrepresentation of Women