I am happy to announce a forthcoming new volume from the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series: A Companion to Experimental Philosophy. It is edited by Justin Sytsma and myself and features over forty chapters from leading philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists from several countries across three continents. These chapters detail the application of empirical methods to philosophical questions across major sub-disciplines including the philosophy of action, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, and metaphilosophy.
The general introduction to the volume is available online here, offering a summary of the goals of the volume and a brief introduction to experimental philosophy for a general audience. The table of contents and list of contributors can be found below:
A Companion to Experimental Philosophy: Table of Contents
Part One: Experimental Philosophy: Past, Present and Future
1. Experimental Philosophy and the Philosophical Tradition. Stephen Stich; Kevin Tobia
2. Philosophical Criticisms of Experimental Philosophy. Timothy Williamson
3. Experimental Philosophy is Cognitive Science. Joshua Knobe
4. Armchair-friendly Experimental Philosophy. Kaija Mortensen; Jennifer Nagel
5. Going Positive by Going Negative: On Keeping X-Phi Relevant & Dangerous. Jonathan M. Weinberg
6. Early Modern Experimental Philosophy. Peter R. Anstey; Alberto Vanzo
7. Nietzsche and Moral Psychology. Daniel Telech; Brian Leiter
Part Two: Areas of Research
Free Will and Philosophy of Action
8. The Folk Concept of Intentional Action: Empirical Approaches. Florian Cova
9. Traditional and Experimental Approaches to Free Will and Moral Responsibility. Gunnar Björnsson; Derk Pereboom
10. Free Will and Experimental Philosophy. Hoi-yee Chan; Max Deutsch; Shaun Nichols
Moral and Political Philosophy
11. Solving the Trolley Problem. Joshua D. Greene (new introduction to the reprinted article “Pushing Moral Buttons: The Interaction between Personal Force and Intention in Moral Judgment” by Joshua D. Greene, Fiery A. Cushman, Lisa E. Stewart, Kelly Lowenberg, Leigh E. Nystrom, and Jonathan D. Cohen)
12. The Adaptive Logic of Moral Luck. Justin W. Martin; Fiery Cushman
13. Metaethics: Traditional and Empirical Approaches. Alexandra Plakias
14. Aspects of Folk Morality: Objectivism and Relativism. Hagop Sarkissian
15. The Behavior of Ethicists. Eric Schwitzgebel; Joshua Rust
16. Experimental or Empirical Political Philosophy. Nicole Hassoun
17. Ownership Rights. Shaylene E. Nancekivell; J. Charles Millar; Pauline C. Summers; Ori Friedman
Philosophy of Mind
18. Attributions of Consciousness. Justin Sytsma
19. A Unified versus Componential View of Understanding Minds. Lily Tsoi
20. The Group Mind in Commonsense Psychology. Bryce Huebner
21. Synesthesia as a Challenge for Representationalism. Berit Brogaard
22. Naturalistic Approaches to Creativity. Dustin Stokes; Elliot Samuel Paul
Epistemology
23. Knowledge Judgments in "Gettier" Cases. John Turri
24. Experiments on Contextualism and Interest Relative Invariantism. Ángel Pinillos
25. Evaluative Effects on Knowledge Attributions. James R. Beebe
Philosophy of Language
26. Reference. Mike Dacey; Ron Mallon
27. Experimental Pragmatics in Linguistics and Philosophy. Mark Phelan
28. Generics and Experimental Philosophy. Adam Lerner; Sarah-Jane Leslie
Metaphysics
29. Metaphysics and Cognitive Science. L. A. Paul
30. Experimental Philosophy and Causal Attributions. Jonathan Livengood; David Rose
31. Causal Models and Screening-off. Juhwa Park; Steven A. Sloman
32. Causal Search, Causal Modeling, and the Folk. David Danks
Philosophy of Science
33. Experimental Philosophy of Science. Edouard Machery
34. Explanation. Tania Lombrozo
35. The Concept of Innateness as an Object of Empirical Enquiry. Richard Samuels
Logic and Reasoning
36. Experimental Philosophical Logic. David Ripley
37. Experimental Philosophy meets Formal Epistemology. Jonah N. Schupbach
38. Experimental Approaches to the Study of Conditionals. Igor Douven
Metaphilosophy and Individual Differences
39. Philosophical Expertise. Joshua Alexander
40. Intuitional Stability. Jennifer Cole Wright
41. Personality and Philosophical Bias. Adam Feltz; Edward T. Cokely
42. Experimental Philosophy and the Underrepresentation of Women. Carrie Figdor; Matt L. Drabek
Justin and I would like to thank all contributors and reviewers who worked to help make this project possible, and we look forward to seeing the volume in print later this year.
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Posted by: James Beebe | 03/18/2015 at 02:17 PM