In Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds, Edouard Machery argues that resolving many
traditional and contemporary philosophical issues is beyond our epistemic reach and that …

This entry addresses the nature and epistemological role of intuition by considering the
following questions:(1) What are intuitions?,(2) What roles do they serve in philosophical …

Intuition is sometimes derided as an abstruse or esoteric phenomenon akin to crystal-ball
gazing. Such derision appears to be fuelled primarily by the suggestion, evidently endorsed …

In recent years, there has been much concern expressed about the underrepresentation of
women in academic philosophy in the English-speaking world. A full explanation of this …

In epistemology, fake-barn thought experiments are often taken to be intuitively clear cases
in which a justified true belief does not qualify as knowledge. We report a study designed to …

Experimental philosophy is the name for a recent movement whose participants use the
methods of experimental psychology to probe the way people think about philosophical …

When Words Are Called For Page 1 When Words Are Called For Page 2 Page 3 When Words
Are Called For A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy Avner Baz HARVARD …

It is argued on a variety of grounds that recent results in 'experimental philosophy of
language', which appear to show that there are significant cross‐cultural differences in …

Social “construction,”“constructionism” and “constructivism” are terms in wide use in the
humanities and social sciences, and are applied to a diverse range of objects including the …

The field of experimental philosophy has received considerable attention, essentially for
producing results that seem highly counter-intuitive and at the same time question some of …