The psychology of philosophy: Associating philosophical views with psychological traits in professional philosophers

Is Experimental Philosophy Philosophically Significant ? ( Forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology )

Experimental philosophy has emerged as a very specific kind of response to an equally specific way of thinking about philosophy, one typically associated with philosophical analysis and according to which philosophical claims are measured, at least in part, by our intuitions. Since experimental philosophy has emerged as a response to this way of thinking about philosophy, its philosophical sign...

Abduction by Philosophers : Reorienting Philosophical Methodology ∗

A reorientation is needed in methodological debate about the role of intuitions in philosophy. Methodological debate has lost sight of the reason why it makes sense to focus on questions about intuitions when thinking about the methods or epistemology of philosophy. The problem is an approach to methodology which gives a near exclusive focus to questions about some evidential role that intuitio...

comparative analysis of the use of hedges & emphatics in english and persian academic research articles of sociology & psychology

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Forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology

In recent years it has become more and more difficult to distinguish between metaethical cognitivism and non-cognitivism. (Dreier 2004; van Roojen 2004) The distinction most often used to separate the two camps, until recently at least, was their position on the meaningfulness of moral statements and the applicability of truth-predicates to those statements. Cognitivists are said to hold that m...

The Philosophy of Psychology