Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXXI: Philosophy and the Empirical

The Use of Empirical Evidence to Assess and Critique Judicial Decisions (Carl F. Cranor)......Page 3
From My Lai to Abu Ghraib: The Moral Psychology of Atrocity (John M. Doris and Dominic Murphy)......Page 27
Render Unto Philosophy that Which Is Philosophy's (Richard Fumerton)......Page 58
Philosophical Thought Experiments, Intuitions, and Cognitive Equilibrium (Tamar Szabo Gendler)......Page 70
Reason Explanation in Folk Psychology (Joshua Knobe)......Page 92
The Folk Probably Don't Think What You Think They Think: Experiments on Causation by Absence (Jonathan Livengood and Edouard Machery)......Page 109
The Epistemology of Thought Experiments: First Person versus Third Person Approaches (Kirk Ludwig)......Page 130
Arguments from Reference and the Worry About Dependence (Ron Mallon)......Page 162
Intentional Action, Folk Judgments, and Stories: Sorting Things Out (Alfred R. Mele and Fiery Cushman)......Page 186
Folk Intuitions, Slippery Slopes, and Necessary Fictions: An Essay on Saul Smilansky's Free Will Illusionism (Thomas Nadelhoffer and Adam Feltz)......Page 204
Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Mechanism: Experiments on Folk Intuitions (Eddy Nahmias, D. Justin Coates, and Trevor Kvaran)......Page 216
Do We Have a Coherent Set of Intuitions About Moral Responsibility? (Dana K. Nelkin)......Page 245
The Rise of Compatibilism: A Case Study in the Quantitative History of Philosophy (Shaun Nichols)......Page 262
Can Moral Obligations Be Empirically Discovered? (Jesse J. Prinz)......Page 273
Pragmatic Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case Study in Philosophy and the Empirical (Jessica De Villiers, Robert J. Stainton, and Peter Szatmari)......Page 294
How to Challenge Intuitions Empirically Without Risking Skepticism (Jonathan M. Weinberg)......Page 320
The Cosmic Ensemble: Reflections on the Nature-Mathematics Symbiosis (Joseph Almog)......Page 346