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Book SynopsisMetaphysics, almost entirely neglected by experimental philosophers, is the central focus of
Experimental Metaphysics. The volume brings together a range of views aimed at addressing the question of how cognitive science might be relevant to metaphysics. With contributions from cognitive scientists and philosophers, chapters focus on theoretical and empirical issues involving the potential role of cognitive science in metaphysics. Alongside topics such as free will, objects and causation, in which relevant empirical evidence is discussed and connected to relevant metaphysical issues, more programmatic papers explore theoretical issues centered on the connection between cognitive science and metaphysics. This balanced approach exposes metaphysicians to philosophically relevant work in cognitive science, while showing cognitive scientists the ways in which their work might be important for philosophers.Presenting cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research,
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Trade Review
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. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Many philosophers think it is wildly implausible that experimental philosophy can make important contributions to metaphysics. This outstanding collection of groundbreaking essays proves that they are wrong. -- Stephen Stich, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, USA
This is an important and timely contribution to one of the newest and most exciting developments in contemporary philosophy: the project of bringing experimental philosophy and cognitive science to bear on contemporary metaphysics. -- L. A. Paul is Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Table of Contents
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
