Metaphysics and Cognitive Science

Alvin I. Goldman is Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Brian P. McLaughlin is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind.

Introduction
Alvin I. Goldman and Brian P. McLaughlin

Section I: What Might Be the Role of Cognitive Science in Metaphysics?
Chapter 1: Time Lost, Time Regained Craig Callender
Chapter 2: Cognitive Science and Metaphysics: Partners in Debunking Jonathan Schaffer

Section II: Ethics and Cognitive Science
Chapter 3: Moral Metaphysics, Moral Psychology, and the Cognitive Sciences Peter Railton
Chapter 4: Debunking and Vindicating in Moral Psychology Shaun Nichols

Section III: God and Cognitive Science
Chapter 5: On Perceiving God: Prospects for a Cognitive Science of Religious Experiences Mark Baker and Dean Zimmerman
Chapter 6: God and Cognitive Science: A Bayesian Approach Alvin I. Goldman

Section IV: Meaning, Linguistics, and Ontology
Chapter 7: Cognitive Psychology and the Metaphysics of Meaning Mark Johnston and Sarah-Jane Leslie
Chapter 8: Language and Its Ontology Friederike Moltmann

Section V: Modality and the Ontology of Bodily Feelings
Chapter 9: Modal Prospection John McCoy, Laurie Paul, Tomer Ullman
Chapter 10: Against Phenomenal Parsimony: A Plea for Bodily Feelings Frédérique de Vignemont

Section VI: Sortals and Natural Kinds
Chapter 11: Does the Identity of an Object Depend on Its Category? The Role of Sortals in Thought Lance J. Rips and Nick Leonard
Chapter 12: What the Study of Psychological Essentialism May Reveal About the World Susan A. Gelman

Section VII: Debunking and Cognitive Science
Chapter 13: Debunking Arguments in Metaethics and Metaphysics Daniel Z. Korman
Chapter 14: Cognitive Science for the Revisionary Metaphysician David Rose
Chapter 15: Unbunking Arguments: A Case Study in Metaphysics and Cognitive Science Christopher Frugé