Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy Volume 5

The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy is the place to go to see outstanding new work in the field. It features papers by philosophers, papers by psychologists, and papers co-authored by people in both disciplines. The series heralds the emergence of a truly interdisciplinary field in which people from different disciplines are working together to address a shared set of questions. This new volume of Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy showcases the continuing development of the field. The submitted papers go ever more deeply into some of the issues that have long been central topics of experimental philosophy research (epistemic intuitions, metaethical intuitions, intuitions about causation) but also venture into new topics that illustrate the broadening the scope of experimental philosophy research (slurs, experimental economics, Socratic questionnaires). The volume concludes with three specially commissioned essays reviewing recent work on three central topics: causal judgment, knowledge ascription, and the experimental philosophy of consciousness.

1 - Equal Deeds, Different Needs
2 - The Folk Theory of Well-Being
3 - Deference to Moral Testimony and (In)Authenticity
4 - Calibrating Measures of Folk Objectivism
5 - Resituating the Influence of Relevant Alternatives
6 - Do People Understand Determinism? The Tracking Problem for Measuring Free Will Beliefs
7 - Investing the Three Ts of Present-Bias: Telic Attitudes, Temporal Preferences and Temporal Ontology
8 - Empirical Challenges to the Evidential Problem of Evil
9 - The Sound of Slurs: Bad Sounds for Bad Words
10 - Providing Explanations Shifts Preschoolers' Metaphor Preferences
11 - Truth-conditional Variability of Color Ascriptions
12 - Practices Make Perfect: On Minding Methodology When Mooting Metaphilosophy
13 - Socratic Questionnaires
14 - Bank Cases, Stakes and Normative Facts
15 - Causal Selection and Egalitarianism
16 - Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness

Joshua Knobe is Professor of Cognitive Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Much of his research is concerned with the impact of moral judgments on people's intuitions about matters that might at first appear to be entirely non-moral in nature. Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. His books include Sentimental Rules (2004), Bound (2014) and, co-authored with Stephen Stich, Mindreading (2003). His current research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of philosophical problems.