It has been argued that belief in free will is socially consequential and psychologically
universal. In this paper we look at the folk concept of free will and its critical assessment in …

Released in 2014, this was the first philosophy textbook in moral psychology, introducing
students to a range of philosophical topics and debates such as: what is moral motivation …

In the early years of experimental philosophy, a number of studies seemed to suggest that
people's philosophical intuitions were unstable. Some studies seemed to suggest that …

Experimental moral philosophy emerged as a methodology in the last decade of the
twentieth century, as a branch of the larger experimental philosophy (X-Phi) approach …

This article critically examines the experimental philosophy of free will, particularly the
interplay between ordinary individuals' compatibilist and incompatibilist intuitions. It explores …

Despite pervasive variation in the content of laws, legal theorists and anthropologists have
argued that laws share certain abstract features and even speculated that law may be a …

The claim that common sense regards free will and moral responsibility as compatible with
determinism has played a central role in both analytic and experimental philosophy. In this …

Higher courts sometimes assess the constitutionality of law by working through a concrete
case, other times by reasoning about the underlying question in a more abstract way. Prior …

Do people have the intuition that free will and moral responsibility are compatible with
determinism? To find out, experimental philosophers have presented participants with …

Prior research found correlations between reflection test performance and philosophical
tendencies among laypeople. In two large studies (total N= 1299)—one pre-registered …