Experimental Philosophy

Joshua Knobe is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Yale University.Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

• Preface ; Credits ; Contributors ; Part I. Metaphilosophy ; Antti Kauppinen. The Rise and Fall of Experimental Philosophy. ; Joshua Alexander, Ron Mallon, and Jonathan M. Weinberg. Accentuate the Negative. ; Jen Wright. On intuitional stability: The clear, the strong, and the paradigmatic. ; Part II. Consciousness ; Heather Gray, Kurt Gray, and Daniel Wegner. Dimensions of mind perception. ; Justin Sytsma and Edouard Machery. Two conceptions of subjective experience. ; Adam Arico, Brian Fiala, Robert F. Goldberg & Shaun Nichols. The Folk Psychology of Consciousness. ; Part III. Metaethics ; Geoffrey Goodwin and John Darley. The psychology of meta-ethics: Exploring objectivism. ; Hagop Sarkissian, John Park, David Tien, Jennifer Wright & Joshua Knobe. Folk Moral Relativism. ; Part IV. The Impact of Morality on Judgment ; Joshua Knobe. Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist. ; Mark Alicke, David Rose & Dori Bloom. Causation, Norm Violation and Culpable Control. ; Kevin Uttich and Tania Lomborozo . Norms inform mental state ascriptions: A rational explanation for the side-effect effect. ; Part V. Miscellaneous ; Paul Griffiths, Edouard Machery and Stefan Linquist. The Vernacular Concept of Innateness. ; Wesley Buckwalter and Stephen Stich. Gender and Philosophical Intuition. ; Eric Schwitzgebel and Fiery Cushman. Expertise in Moral Reasoning? Order Effects on Moral Judgment in Professional Philosophers and Non-Philosophers. ; Index

Experimental Philosophy: Volume 2 is a good companion to Experimental Philosophy and I'd recommend it to anyone who has read the first volume Both volumes are accessible to the general reader and both offer a good introduction to a variety of the issues being explored by experimental philosophy.