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Sorell, Tom (2018) Experimental philosophy and the history of philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26 (5). pp. 829-849. doi:10.1080/09608788.2017.1320971 ISSN 0960-8788.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1320971
Abstract
Contemporary experimental philosophers sometimes use versions of an argument from the history of philosophy to defend the claim that what they do is philosophy. Although experimental philosophers conduct surveys and carry out what appear to be experiments in psychology, making them methodologically different from most analytic philosophers working today, techniques like theirs were not out of the ordinary in the philosophy of the past, early modern philosophy in particular. Or so some of them (Knobe, Nichols, Systma and Livengood) argue. This paper disputes the argument, citing important differences between early modern philosopher-scientists – Descartes, Hobbes and Boyle – and their supposed modern counterparts. Although there is some continuity between early modern philosopher-scientists and the contemporary experimentalists, it is mostly a continuity of interest in empirically informed philosophy, not a distinctively experimental philosophy
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Philosophy -- History, Psychology, Social sciences | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0960-8788 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 26 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 829-849 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/09608788.2017.1320971 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 May 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 November 2018 | ||||||||
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