title: Experimental philosophy.
abstract: Experimental philosophy is a new interdisciplinary field that uses methods normally associated with psychology to investigate questions normally associated with philosophy. The present review focuses on research in experimental philosophy on four central questions. First, why is it that people's moral judgments appear to influence their intuitions about seemingly nonmoral questions? Second, do people think that moral questions have objective answers, or do they see morality as fundamentally relative? Third, do people believe in free will, and do they see free will as compatible with determinism? Fourth, how do people determine whether an entity is conscious?
authors.affiliation: Program in Cognitive Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8306, USA. joshua.knobe@yale.edu
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Knobe
authors.forename: Wesley
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Buckwalter
authors.forename: Shaun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nichols
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.forename: Hagop
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sarkissian
authors.forename: Tamler
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sommers
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D019545:Intuition; D009014:Morals; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010684:Philosophy; D013850:Thinking; D014836:Volition