2022-2023 Catalog

PHIL 335 Experimental Philosophy

This course concerns the implications for philosophers of experiments aimed at discovering the attitudes of non-philosophers to traditional philosophical problems. The course concerns the methodology of philosophy, in particular the role of pre-theoretical intuition in debates over normative matters. It also concerns several traditional philosophical issues, such as of moral luck, free will, happiness and intentionally. [W]

Instructor

Gildenhuys