Research on morality has increased rapidly over the past 10 years. At the center of this
research are moral judgments—evaluative judgments that a perceiver makes in response to …

Experimental philosophy is a new interdisciplinary field that uses methods normally
associated with psychology to investigate questions normally associated with philosophy …

Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility. He
argues that if determinism were true we would not be morally responsible in the key basic …

We introduce a theory of blame in five parts. Part 1 addresses what blame is: a unique moral
judgment that is both cognitive and social, regulates social behavior, fundamentally relies on …

Human commonsense understanding of the physical and social world is organized around
intuitive theories. These theories support making causal and moral judgments. When …

Claims about people's intuitions have long played an important role in philosophical
debates. The new field of experimental philosophy seeks to subject such claims to rigorous …

It has often been suggested that people's ordinary capacities for understanding the world
make use of much the same methods one might find in a formal scientific investigation. A …

Recent work in psychology and experimental philosophy has shown that judgments of
actual causation are often influenced by consideration of defaults, typicality, and normality. A …

Past research has identified a number of asymmetries based on moral judgments. Beliefs
about (a) what a person values,(b) whether a person is happy,(c) whether a person has …

Everything that happens has a multitude of causes, but people make causal judgments
effortlessly. How do people select one particular cause (eg, the lightning bolt that set the …