Concerns with cultural variation and epistemic perspectives have played major roles in
experimental semantics. They dominate Li's book (2023). Li's own experimental work …

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 …

One of the most successful research areas in experimental philosophy examines people's
judgments about semantic properties. This chapter reviews results of experimental …

This paper reports the first study in the literature that adopts a bibliometric approach to
systematically explore the scholarship in the young and fast‐growing research field of …

The paper urges that polysemous phenomena are typically semantic not pragmatic. The part
of a message sent by a polysemous expression is typically one of its meanings encoded in …

Recent experimental work on “natural” kind terms has shown evidence of both descriptive
and nondescriptive reference determination. This has led some to propose ambiguity or …

The finding that intuitions about the reference of proper names vary cross-culturally
(Machery et al. Cognition 92: 1–12. 2004) was one of the early milestones in experimental …

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy are state-of-the-art surveys of emerging, newly
refreshed, and important fields in philosophy, providing accessible yet thorough …

This paper is made up of responses to the papers in this volume. The first section is
concerned with the philosophy of linguistics, particularly with the linguistic conception of …

Experiments have led some philosophers to conclude that the reference determination of
natural kind terms is neither simply descriptive nor simply causal‐historical. Various theories …