Philosophy and the empirical
By: editors, Peter A. French, Howard K. Wettstein.
Contributors: French, Peter A.; Wettstein, Howard K.
Series: Midwest studies in philosophy -- v. 31
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781405180207
Subjects: Philosophy; Empiricism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The use of empirical evidence to assess and critique judicial decisions -- Carl F. Cranor; title: From My Lai to Abu Ghraib : the moral psychology of atrocity -- John M. Doris and Dominic Murphy; title: Render unto philosophy that which is philosophy's -- Richard Fumerton; title: Philosophical thought experiments, intuitions, and cognitive equilibrium -- Tamar Szabó Gendler; title: Reason explanation in folk psychology -- Joshua Knobe; title: The folk probably don't think what you think they think : experiments on causation by absence -- Jonathan Livengood and Edouard Machery; title: The epistemology of thought experiments  : first person versus third person approaches -- Kirk Ludwig; title: Arguments from reference and the worry about dependence -- Ron Mallon; title: Intentional action, folk judgments, and stories : sorting things out -- Alfred R. Mele and Fiery Cushman; title: Folk intuitions, slippery slopes, and necessary fictions : an essay on Saul Smilansky's free will illusionism -- Thomas Nadelhoffer and Adam Feltz; title: Free will, moral responsibility, and mechanism : experiments on folk intuitions -- Eddy Nahmias, D. Justin Coates, and Trevor Kvaran; title: Do we have a coherent set of intuitions about moral responsibility? -- Dana K. Nelkin; title: The rise of compatibilism : a case study in the quantitative history of philosophy -- Shaun Nichols; title: Can moral obligations be empirically discovered? -- Jesse J. Prinz; title: Pragmatic abilities in autism spectrum disorder : a case study in philosophy and the empirical -- Jessica De Villiers, Robert J. Stainton, and Peter Szatmari; title: How to challenge intuitions empirically without risking skepticism -- Jonathan M. Weinberg; title: The cosmic ensemble : reflections on the nature-mathematics symbiosis -- Joseph Almog.