In two experiments (total N= 693), we explored whether people are willing to consider
paintings made by AI-driven robots as art, and robots as artists. Across the two experiments …

Contextualism is the view that the extension of perspectival claims (involving eg predicates
of personal taste or epistemic modals) depends on the context of utterance. Relativism is the …

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 …

The replication crisis is perceived by many as one of the most significant threats to the
reliability of research. Though reporting of the crisis has emphasized social science, all …

In everyday language, the expression 'guilty pleasure'refers to instances where one feels
bad about enjoying a particular artwork. Thus, one's experience of guilty pleasure seems to …

In a recent paper, I argued that philosophical intuitions are surprisingly robust both across
demographic groups and across development. Machery and Stich reply by reviewing a …

Prior work has established that laypeople do not consistently treat moral questions as being
objectively true or as merely true relative to different perspectives. Rather, these metaethical …

Two common observations about aesthetics are in tension: that people generally consider
aesthetic judgments subjective, and that people generally behave like objectivists (arguing …

Experimental philosophy of aesthetics has explored to what extent ordinary people are
committed to aesthetic realism. Extant work has focused on attitudes to normativism–a key …

Past research on folk aesthetics has suggested that most people are subjectivists when it
comes to aesthetic judgment. However, most people also make a distinction between good …