Research in experimental philosophy has increasingly been turning to corpus methods to
produce evidence for empirical claims, as they open up new possibilities for testing linguistic …

Critics across the political spectrum have worried that ordinary uses of words like
'racist','sexist', and 'homophobic'are becoming conceptually inflated, meaning that these …

Philosophers and linguists currently lack the means to reliably identify evaluative concepts
and measure their evaluative intensity. Using a corpus-based approach, we present a new …

Corpus analysis allows researchers to inform, illuminate, and investigate many problems.
This chapter provides easy access to some of the central tools commonly used in corpus …

Many philosophical thought experiments and arguments involve unusual cases. We present
empirical reasons to doubt the reliability of intuitive judgments and conclusions about such …

Semantic features are components of concepts. In philosophy, there is a predominant focus
on those features that are necessary (and jointly sufficient) for the application of a concept …

The debate about the meaning of color terms in the philosophy of language has been
dominated by two main issues. Firstly, there is the discussion about the context-dependency …

In this paper I use insights from exploratory analyses on large English language corpora to
consider the extent to which there is a widely used ordinary notion of justification that …

Philosophers are often credited with particularly well-developed conceptual skills. The
'expertise objection'to experimental philosophy builds on this assumption to challenge …

This chapter proceeds from the standard picture of the relation between intuitions and
experimental philosophy: the alleged evidential role of intuitions about hypothetical cases …