Experimental philosophy is often presented as a new movement that avoids many of the difficulties that face traditional philosophy. This article distinguishes two views of experimental philosophy: a narrow view in which philosophers conduct empirical investigations of intuitions, and a broad view which says that experimental philosophy is just the colocation in the same body of (i) philosophica...

A recurring theme in philosophy is the suggestion that there are philosophical reasons to stop doing philosophy. This general idea is briefly sketched with regard to its various versions, other reasons to abandon philosophy, proposals regarding revisions of philosophy and possible paradoxical implications. Three uniting sub-themes of otherwise very different suggestions on what is the alleged r...

When I was actively taking classes as an undergraduate, one of my biggest concerns was that project courses typically lacked a fundamentally challenging problem; the challenge was typically in learning the details of tools used to solve some problem with an obvious solution, but not in finding a unique solution to the problem itself. My personal approach attempts to remedy this deficiency, sinc...

2 Abstract The lack of gender parity in philosophy has garnered serious attention recently. Previous empirical work that aims to quantify what has come to be called " the gender gap " in philosophy focuses mainly on the absence of women in philosophy faculty and graduate programs. Our study looks at gender representation in philosophy among undergraduate students, undergraduate majors, graduate...

Abstract Among the passages which are suggestive of a philosophy language in Kant’s writings his remarks and arguments on appropriate terminology for philosophical concepts. I ask what it is Kant that makes some words more suitable than others. reconstruct from Inquiry concerning distinctness principles natural theology morality (1764) Critique Pure Reason (1781/1787) defend there no such thing...