Experimental Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780195323252 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str.

Joshua Knobe; Shaun Nichols; Joshua Michael Knobe

Opis

Experimental philosophy is a new movement that seeks to return the discipline of philosophy to a focus on questions about how people actually think and feel. Departing from a long-standing tradition, experimental philosophers go out and conduct systematic experiments to reach a better understanding of people's ordinary intuitions about philosophically significant questions. Although the movement is only a few years old, it has already sparked an explosion of new research, challenging a number of cherished assumptions in both philosophy and cognitive science.

The present volume provides an introduction to the major themes of work in experimental philosophy, bringing together some of the most influential articles in the field along with a collection of new papers that explore the theoretical significance of this new research.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

Joshua Knobe is an assistant professor in the philosophy department at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. He has published widely in both psychology (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science) and philosophy (Nous, Analysis). Shaun Nichols is in the Philosophy Department and Cognitive Science Program at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Sentimental Rules (OUP) and co-author (with Stephen Stich) of Mindreading.