Focuses on an issue of central important in contemporary philosophy, the relationship between philosophy and empirical studies. This book explores a range of examples which demonstrate how the older paradigm - philosophy as conceptual analysis - is giving way to a more varied set of models of philosophical work.

This collection of essays focuses on a current issue of central important in contemporary philosophy, the relationship between philosophy and empirical studies. It explores in detail a range of examples which demonstrate how the older paradigm - philosophy as conceptual analysis - is giving way to a more varied set of models of philosophical work. Each of the featured papers is a previously unpublished contribution by a major scholar.

The Use of Empirical Evidence to Assess and Critique Judicial Decisions.From My Lai to Abu Ghraib:The Moral Psychology of Atrocity.Render Unto Philosophy that which is Philosophy's.Philosophical Thought Experiments, Intuitions and Cognitive Equilibrium.Reason Explanation in Folk Psychology.The Folk Probably Don't Think What You Think They Think:Experiments on Causation by Absence.The Epistemology of Thought Experiments: First vs. Third Person ApproachArguments from Reference and the Worry About Dependence.INTENTIONAL ACTION, FOLK JUDGMENTS, AND STORIES:SORTING THINGS OUT.Folk Intuitions, Slippery Slopes, and Necessary Fictions: An Essay on Saul Smilansky's Free Will Illusionism.Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Mechanism: Experiments on Folk Intuitions.Do We Have A Coherent Set of Intuitions About Moral Responsibility?.The Rise of Compatibilism:.A Case Study in the Quantitative History of Philosophy.Can Moral Obligations Be Empirically Discovered?.Pragmatic Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder:A Case Study in Philosophy and the Empirical.How To Challenge Intuitions Empirically Without Risking Skepticism.The Cosmic Ensemble: Some reflections on the nature-mathematics symbiosis