Experimental Metaphysics

David Rose is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, USA.

• Introduction, David Rose (Rutgers University, USA)1. Metaphysics and Conceptual Analysis: Experimental Philosophy’s Place under the Sun, Uriah Kriegel (Institute Jean Nicod, France) 2. Experimental Philosophy, Conceptual Analysis, and Metasemantics, Jason Turner (University of Arizona, USA)3. Intuitions and the Metaphysics of Causation, Sara Bernstein (Duke University, USA)4. The Folk Psychological Roots of Free Will, Joshua Shepherd (University of Oxford, UK)5. The Rationality of Psychological Essentialism, Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona, USA)6. Folk Mereology is Teleological, David Rose and Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers University, USA)7. What Do the Folk Think about Composition, and Does It Matter?, Daniel Z. Korman (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) and Chad Carmichael (Indiana University-Purdue, USA)8. Folk Teleology and its Implications, Jacob W. Dink and Lance J. Rips (Northwestern University, USA)Index

Most of the important work that brings cognitive science and experimental methods to bear on metaphysics is yet to be undertaken, but this volume is a good start.