Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Volume 2

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 second volume in the series is divided into three sections that explore epistemology, moral and political philosophy, and metaphysics and mind.

Tania Lombrozo is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research combines methods and insights from philosophy and psychology to address questions about explanation and understanding, learning, causal reasoning, conceptual representation, and social cognition. She is also a regular blogger for NPR's 13.7: Cosmos & Culture.



Joshua Knobe is a professor at Yale University, appointed both in the Program in Cognitive Science and in the Department of Philosophy. 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 the University of Arizona. 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.

Introduction, Tania Lombrozo, Joshua Knobe, and Shaun Nichols
Part I: Epistemology
1. Subtle Syntactic Cues Affect Intuitions about Knowledge: Methodological and Theoretical Implications for Epistemology, Zachary Horne and Andrei Cimpian
2. Epistemic Closure in Folk Epistemology, James R. Beebe and Jake Monaghan
3. Folk Epistemology and Epistemic Closure, Tim Kraft and Alex Wiegmann
4. The Ordinary Concept of Knowledge-How, Chad Gonnerman, Kaija Mortensen, and Jacob Robbins
Part II: Moral and Political Philosophy
5. The Fact and Function of Meta-Ethical Pluralism: Exploring the Evidence, Jen Cole Wright
6. In Defense of 'Ought Implies Can', Derek Leben
7. Decisions behind the Veil: An Experimental Approach, Justin P. Bruner
Part III: Metaphysics and Mind
8. The Object : Substance :: Event : Process Analogy, Alexis Wellwood, Susan J. Hespos, and Lance J. Rips
9. Personal Identity and Persisting as Many, Sarah Weaver and John Turri
10. Statutes of Limitations and Personal Identity, Christian Mott
11. On the Matter of Robot Minds, Brian P. McLaughlin and David Rose