In Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds, Edouard Machery argues that resolving many
traditional and contemporary philosophical issues is beyond our epistemic reach and that …

In recent years, a number of philosophers have conducted empirical studies that survey
people's intuitions about various subject matters in philosophy. Some have found that …

Experimental restrictionists have challenged philosophers' reliance on intuitions about
thought experiment cases based on experimental findings. According to the expertise …

Abstract 'Intuition deniers' are those who—like Timothy Williamson, Max Deutsch, Herman
Cappelen and a few others—reject the claim that philosophers centrally rely on intuitions as …

This much should be uncontroversial: The method of cases plays an important role in
contemporary philosophy. While there is disagreement about how best to interpret this …

Experimental philosophy is often presented as a new movement that avoids many of the
difficulties that face traditional philosophy. This article distinguishes two views of …

Machery and Elizabeth O'Neill have brought together twelve leading philosophers to debate
four topics central to recent research in experimental philosophy. The result is an important …

We can distinguish two broad visions of human action. On what might be called the scientific
vision, human actions are caused by mental states. By contrast, on the transcendence …

Debate over the status of intuitions in philosophical practice is marred by an ambiguity about
“unreliability.” Many authors, including Boyd and Nagel in this volume, have defended the …

Recent empirical work appears to suggest that the moral intuitions of professional
philosophers are just as vulnerable to distorting psychological factors as are those of …