How (not) to react to experimental philosophy

J Horvath - Experimental Philosophy and its Critics, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Recent experimental philosophy arguments have raised trouble for philosophers' reliance
on armchair intuitions. One popular line of response has been the expertise defense …

Intuition fail: Philosophical activity and the limits of expertise

W Buckwalter - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Experimental philosophers have empirically challenged the connection between intuition
and philosophical expertise. This paper reviews these challenges alongside other research …

Philosophical expertise and the burden of proof

T Williamson - Metaphilosophy, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Some proponents of “experimental philosophy” criticize philosophers' use of thought
experiments on the basis of evidence that the verdicts vary with truth‐independent factors …

Philosophical expertise under the microscope

M Egler, LD Ross - Synthese, 2020 - Springer
Recent experimental studies indicate that epistemically irrelevant factors can skew our
intuitions, and that some degree of scepticism about appealing to intuition in philosophy is …

Experimentalist pressure against traditional methodology

JJ Ichikawa - Philosophical Psychology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
According to some critics, traditional armchair philosophical methodology relies in an illicit
way on intuitions. But the particular structure of the critique is not often carefully articulated …

Intuitive expertise and intuitions about knowledge

J Horvath, A Wiegmann - Philosophical Studies, 2016 - Springer
Experimental restrictionists have challenged philosophers' reliance on intuitions about
thought experiment cases based on experimental findings. According to the expertise …

Three arguments against the expertise defense

M Mizrahi - Metaphilosophy, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Experimental philosophers have challenged friends of the expertise defense to show that (a)
the intuitive judgments of professional philosophers are different from the intuitive judgments …

Experimental philosophy and the philosophical tradition

S Stich, KP Tobia - A companion to experimental philosophy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Many experimental philosophers are philosophers by training and professional affiliation,
but some best work in experimental philosophy has been done by people who do not have …

Analytic epistemology and experimental philosophy

J Alexander, JM Weinberg - Philosophy compass, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
It has been standard philosophical practice in analytic philosophy to employ intuitions
generated in response to thought‐experiments as evidence in the evaluation of …

Intuitions and illusions

E Fischer, PE Engelhardt… - Experimental philosophy …, 2015 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The perhaps most ambitious strand of current experimental philosophy—variously
characterized as 'the sources project'(Pust 2012) or the research programme of 'cognitive …