Experimental philosophy is an important 21st-century development in which philosophers abandon their traditional armchairs and systematically collect data about how people think. I see 2 main ...

The budding area of experimental philosophy of religion applies experimental philosophy, as well as psychology and cognitive sciences, to various questions within the philosophy of religion. Ian ...

HILLSDALE, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Associate Professor of Philosophy Ian Church has concluded a three-year project aiming to establish experimental philosophy of religion as a new, authentic area of ...

Later this week, hundreds of philosophers will converge near San Francisco's Union Square for the 87th annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. Reporters from ...

A philosophy professor examines the notions of free will and determinism through test methods used in social sciences. Experimental philosophy can likely help address other conundrums as well.

Imagine a business executive who thinks: "I know that this new policy will harm the environment, but I don't care at all about that -- I just want to increase profits." Is the business executive ...

Experimental philosophy uses empirical methods from the social sciences to study how people think about philosophical questions. At the University at Buffalo, research in this area focuses on ...

Tammler Sommers writes an obituary: In my perfect world, experimental philosophers would restrict their discussions to specific studies and the implications they draw from them – even in venues geared ...

Some philosophers today are doing more than thinking deeply. They are also conducting scientific experiments relating to the nature of free will and of good and evil Think of the discipline of ...