When asked to count under specific instructions, for example, to count “the forks,” or to identify the referent of “a fork,” children have been shown to treat whole forks and detached parts of fork...

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Philosophers have long speculated that individual differences in temperament influence philosophical thinking, yet empirical research has rarely explored the role of neurodivergent traits in this d...

"Do philosophers really think differently than non-philosophers?" That's the question taken up by a team of researchers in a recent study published in Philosophical Psychology. Focusing on differences...

"But is this actually philosophy?" Ethan Landes (Eindhoven University of Technology) is tired of experimental philosophers being asked The Question. And he's tired of experimental philosophers "appeas...

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The “file drawer problem” – where study results remain unpublished – distorts scientific evidence and wastes resources, yet its impact on experimental philosophy has remained unexplored. We conducted ...

A study of philosophical intuitions

The 6th European Experimental Philosophy Conference will take place at the University of Cagliari from September 8th to 11th, 2026. It will consist of the Linguistic Justice Society Satellite Workshop “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Linguistic Justice” on September 8th, followed by the main Conference on September 9th–11th. The event is generously supported by Gian Pietro Storari Funds, Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Fondazione di Sard

We often feel that what we have done is somehow not in keeping with who we are. This tension, or incongruity, between the person we take ourselves to be and what that person has done seems to matter ...

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Abstract. The tension between human free will, on the one hand, and divine foreknowledge and sovereignty, on the other, has been addressed differently in d

An influential survey by Joshua Knobe (2003) indicates that the cognitive process ascribing intentionality to an agent is mediated by the perceived moral worth of the action. To assess the external...

Abstract. What is the nature of the concept beauty? Does it differ fundamentally from nearby concepts such as prettiness? It is argued here that beauty, bu

Synthese - Longstanding philosophical debates about the nature of perception revolve around a clash between Direct Realist and Indirect Realist conceptions of vision. These deny and affirm,...

[Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Justin Sytsma, Kevin Reuter, and Pascale Willemsen replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]

Abstract. Causal selection is the process underlying our intuition that an outcome happened because of a given event, or that an event is the cause of an outcome. When a forest catches fire after a li...