In the early years of experimental philosophy, a number of studies seemed to suggest that
people's philosophical intuitions were unstable. Some studies seemed to suggest that …

What is happiness? Is happiness about feeling good or about being good? Across 5 studies,
we explored the nature and origins of our happiness concept developmentally and cross …

In a recent paper, I argued that philosophical intuitions are surprisingly robust both across
demographic groups and across development. Machery and Stich reply by reviewing a …

One aim of this article is to explore the connection between the Knobe effect and the
epistemic side-effect effect (ESEE). Additionally, we report evidence about a further …

Adults' intentionality judgments regarding an action are influenced by their moral evaluation
of this action. This is clearly indicated in the so-called side-effect effect: when told about an …

One of the most important questions about children's development involves how knowledge
acquisition depends on the effect of language experience. To what extent, and in what ways …

Over the past one and a half decades, the scope of experimental philosophy (x-phi) has
expanded significantly. Experimental research programmes now cover almost all areas of …

I am delighted to see the publication of Nikil Mukerji's Einführung in die experimentelle
Philosophie. In a number of important respects, this new book both encourages and …

Recent work on the side‐effect effect has shown that subjects' intentionality judgments are
influenced by moral evaluations. In six experiments, we tested four different candidates for …

Previous work has demonstrated a “side-effect effect,” such that intentionality is more likely
to be attributed to agents who bring about negatively valenced as opposed to positively …