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.

Joshua Knobe, Professor, Program in Cognitive Science and Department of Philosophy, Yale University,Shaun Nichols, Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University

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.

Introduction, Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols1. Equal Deeds, Different Needs, Alexander Max Bauer and Jan Romann2. The Folk Theory of Well-Being, John Bronsteen, Brian Leiter, Jonathan Masur, and Kevin Tobia3. Deference to Moral Testimony and (In)Authenticity, Shannon Brick4. Calibrating Measures of Folk Objectivism, Florian Cova5. Resituating the Influence of Relevant Alternatives, Justin Sytsma6. Do People Understand Determinism? The Tracking Problem for Measuring Free Will Beliefs, Samuel Murray, Elise Dykhuis, and Thomas Nadelhoffer7. Investing the Three Ts of Present-Bias: Telic Attitudes, Temporal Preferences and Temporal Ontology, Natalja Deng, Andrew J. Latham, Kristie Miller and James Norton8. Empirical Challenges to the Evidential Problem of Evil, Blake McAllister, Ian Church, Paul Rezkalla, and Long Nguyen9. The Sound of Slurs: Bad Sounds for Bad Words, Eric Mandelbaum, Jennifer Ware, and Steven Young10. Providing Explanations Shifts Preschoolers' Metaphor Preferences, Rebecca Zhu, Mariel Goddu, and Alison Gopnik11. Truth-conditional Variability of Color Ascriptions, Adrian Ziólkowski and Tomasz Zyglewicz12. Practices Make Perfect: On Minding Methodology When Mooting Metaphilosophy, Joshua Alexander and Jonathan M. Weinberg13. Socratic Questionnaires, Nat Hansen, Kathryn Francis, and Hamish Greening14. Bank Cases, Stakes and Normative Facts, N. Ángel Pinillos15. Causal Selection and Egalitarianism, Jon Bebb and Helen Beebee16. Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness, Kevin Reuter