Edge.org has posted a video by Joshua Knobe about experimental philosophy and the notion of the self. So, take a thirty minute break this weekend to check it out! They'll be posting another video in a few days by David Pizarro as well.
Here is the abstract:
I'm going to be talking today about some recent work in the field of experimental philosophy. But before I talk about what this actual recent work has discovered I want to say something briefly about what this field is. What is the field of experimental philosophy? Experimental philosophy is a relatively new field—one that just cropped up around the past ten years or so, and it's an interdisciplinary field, uniting ideas from philosophy and psychology. In particular, what experimental philosophers tend to do is to go after questions that are traditionally associated with philosophy but to go after them using the methods that have been traditionally associated with psychology.
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