Experimental Philosophy for Beginners

Introduction: Setting Out for New Shores (Stephan Kornmesser, Alexander Max Bauer, Mark Alfano, Aurélien Allard, Lucien Baumgartner, Florian Cova, Paul Engelhardt, Eugen Fischer, Henrike Meyer, Kevin Reuter, Justin Sytsma, Kyle Thompson, and Marc Wyszynski).- Chapter 1. Quantitative Vignette Studies – X^2 Tests. Empirically Reconsidering the Constative-Performative-Distinction (Alexander Max Bauer, Stephan Kornmesser, and Henrike Meyer).- Chapter 2. Quantitative Vignette Studies – T-Tests. Case Studies on Judgments about Unfelt Pains (Justin Sytsma).- Chapter 3. Quantitative Vignette Studies – Correlations, Regressions, and Structural Equation Modeling. An Application to Experimental Philosophy of Free Will (Florian Cova and Aurélien Allard).- Chapter 4. Interactive and Incentivized Online Experiments – Non-Cooperation in Give-Some and Take-Some Dilemmas (Marc Wyszynski).- Chapter 5. Corpus Analysis – Building and Using Corpora. A Case Study on the Use of “Conspiracy Theory” (Kevin Reuter and Lucien Baumgartner).- Chapter 6. Corpus Analysis – Lexical Dispersion, Semantic Time Series, and Semantic Network Analysis. Analyzing State of the Union Addresses (Mark Alfano).- Chapter 7. Psycholinguistic Experiments – A Case Study on Default Inferences in Philosophical Arguments. Analyzing the Argument from Illusion (Eugen Fischer and Paul E. Engelhardt).- Chapter 8. Qualitative Interview Studies – Constructing an Interview Study Based on a Paradigm Example in “Ought Implies Can” (Kyle Thompson).