<研究論文(原著論文)>実験哲学からの挑戦

Abstract

Experimental philosophy is a new growing field whose core consists in applying the methods of experimental psychology to pre-theoretical intuitions regarding philosophical cases. Traditional philosophy uses such intuitions as evidence for or against a philosophical theory. A camp of experimental philosophy, experimental restrictionism, has it that the results of experimental philosophy undermine this methodology of traditional philosophy. This paper goes as follows. Section 1 briefly introduces three camps of experimental philosophy and describes the methodology of traditional philosophy. Section 2 gives a survey of various views on philosophical intuitions, i.e., the kind of intuitions that are supposed to play an evidential role in traditional philosophy. Section 3 sees several experimental results on which experimental restrictionism bases its attack on the methodology of traditional philosophy. Then, Section 4 summarizes the current debate between the proponents of experimental restrictionism and the defenders of traditional philosophy. Section 5 turns to my own defense of traditional philosophy, arguing for the possibility of collaboration between experimental and traditional philosophy.