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Experimental philosophy and the history of philosophy
Ist Teil von
British journal for the history of philosophy, 2018-09, Vol.26 (5), p.829-849
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Quelle
Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
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, Sytsma 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.