Expertise in moral reasoning? Order effects on moral judgment in professional philosophers and non‐philosophers

E Schwitzgebel, F Cushman - Mind & Language, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the effects of order of presentation on the moral judgments of professional
philosophers and two comparison groups. All groups showed similar‐sized order effects on …

Philosophers' biased judgments persist despite training, expertise and reflection

E Schwitzgebel, F Cushman - Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
We examined the effects of framing and order of presentation on professional philosophers'
judgments about a moral puzzle case (the “trolley problem”) and a version of the Tversky & …

Gender and philosophical intuition

W Buckwalter, S Stich - Experimental philosophy, 2014 - books.google.com
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 …

Persistent bias in expert judgments about free will and moral responsibility: A test of the expertise defense

E Schulz, ET Cokely, A Feltz - Consciousness and Cognition, 2011 - Elsevier
Many philosophers appeal to intuitions to support some philosophical views. However, there
is reason to be concerned about this practice as scientific evidence has documented …

Not all who ponder count costs: Arithmetic reflection predicts utilitarian tendencies, but logical reflection predicts both deontological and utilitarian tendencies

N Byrd, P Conway - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Conventional sacrificial moral dilemmas propose directly causing some harm to prevent
greater harm. Theory suggests that accepting such actions (consistent with utilitarian …

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

J Nado - Philosophy Compass, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent work in experimental philosophy has indicated that intuitions may be subject to
several forms of bias, thereby casting doubt on the viability of intuition as an evidential …

Thought experiments and philosophical knowledge

E Machery - Metaphilosophy, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
While thought experiments play an important role in contemporary analytic philosophy,
much remains unclear about thought experiments. In particular, it is still unclear whether the …

Zombie intuitions

E Fischer, J Sytsma - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
In philosophical thought experiments, as in ordinary discourse, our understanding of verbal
case descriptions is enriched by automatic comprehension inferences. Such inferences …

The gettier intuition from South America to Asia

E Machery, S Stich, D Rose, M Alai, A Angelucci… - Journal of Indian …, 2017 - Springer
This article examines whether people share the Gettier intuition (viz. that someone who has
a true justified belief that p may nonetheless fail to know that p) in 24 sites, located in 23 …