Methodological advances in experimental philosophy / edited by Eugen Fischer and Mark Curtis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Eugen, editor.

Curtis, Mark (College teacher), editor.

Series:

Advances in experimental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodology.

Philosophy--Research.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

This collection is essential reading for anyone working in experimental philosophy today, bringing together established and emerging research leaders from several areas of experimental philosophy to explore how new empirical methods can contribute to philosophical debates. Each chapter presents one or several methods new to experimental philosophy, demonstrating their application in a key area of philosophy and discussing their strengths and limitations. Methods covered include eye tracking, virtual reality technology, neuroimaging, statistical learning, and experimental economics as well as corpus linguistics, visualization techniques and data and text mining. Contributors explore their use in moral philosophy and moral psychology, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and the history of ideas and offer an accessible overview of exciting innovations.

Contents:

Introduction / Eugen Fischer and Mark Curtis

Part 1. Behavioural Experiments beyond the Questionnaire. Experimental Philosophy and Statistical Learning / Shaun Nichols

Eyes as Windows to Minds : Psycholinguistics for Experimental Philosophy / Eugen Fischer and Paul E. Engelhardt

Judge No Evil, See No Evil : Do People's Moral Choices Influence to Whom They Visually Attend? / Jennifer Cole Wright, Evan Reinhold, Annie Galizio and Michelle DiBartolo

Using fMRI in Experimental Philosophy : Exploring the Prospects / Rodrigo Díaz

Using VR Technologies to Investigate the Flexibility of Human Self-conception / Adrian J.T. Alsmith and Matthew R. Longo

Experimental Economics for Philosophers / Hannah Rubin, Cailin O'Connor and Justin Bruner

Part 2. Digital X-Phi : Introducing Digital and Computational Methods. Causal Attributions and Corpus Analysis / Justin Sytsma, Roland Bluhm, Pascale Willemsen and Kevin Reuter

Using Corpus Linguistics to Investigate Mathematical Explanation / Juan Pablo Mejía-Ramos, Lara Alcock, Kristen Lew, Paolo Rago, Chris Sangwin and Matthew Inglis

Natural Language Processing and Network Visualization for Philosophers / Mark Alfano and Andrew Higgins

History of Philosophy in Ones and Zeros / Arianna Betti, Hein van den Berg, Yvette Oortwijn and Caspar Treijtel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Methodological advances in experimental philosophy

ISBN:

9781350068995

1350068993

OCLC:

1048946769