Experimental metaphysics / / edited by David Rose.

• TeilnehmendeR: Rose, David, 1946 January 13-
• Place / Publishing House: London, UK ;, New York, NY, USA : : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Advances in experimental philosophy.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 pages).

"Metaphysics, almost entirely neglected by experimental philosophers, is the central focus of Experimental Metaphysics. The volume brings together a range of views aimed at addressing the question of how cognitive science might be relevant to metaphysics. With contributions from cognitive scientists and philosophers, chapters focus on theoretical and empirical issues involving the potential role of cognitive science in metaphysics. Alongside topics such as free will, objects and causation, in which relevant empirical evidence is discussed and connected to relevant metaphysical issues, more programmatic papers explore theoretical issues centered on the connection between cognitive science and metaphysics. This balanced approach exposes metaphysicians to philosophically relevant work in cognitive science, while showing cognitive scientists the ways in which their work might be important for philosophers. Presenting cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research, Experimental Metaphysics pushes forward the discussion and encourages further engagement with issues at the intersection of cognitive science and metaphysics."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Table of Contents

Introduction, David Rose (Rutgers University, USA) -- 1. Metaphysics and Conceptual Analysis: Experimental Philosophy's Place under the Sun, Uriah Kriegel (Institute Jean Nicod, France) -- 2. Experimental Philosophy, Conceptual Analysis, and Metasemantics, Jason Turner (University of Arizona, USA) -- 3. Intuitions and the Metaphysics of Causation, Sara Bernstein (Duke University, USA) -- 4. The Folk Psychological Roots of Free Will, Joshua Shepherd (University of Oxford, UK) -- 5. The Rationality of Psychological Essentialism, Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona, USA) -- 6. Folk Mereology is Teleological, David Rose and Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers University, USA) -- 7. What Do the Folk Think about Composition, and Does It Matter?, Daniel Z. Korman (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) and Chad Carmichael (Indiana University-Purdue, USA) -- 8. Folk Teleology and its Implications, Jacob W. Dink and Lance J. Rips (Northwestern University, USA) -- Index.