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 …

Joshua Knobe (2003a) has discovered that the perceived goodness or badness of side
effects of actions influences people's ascriptions of intentionality to those side effects. I …

Experimental philosophy is the name for a recent movement whose participants use the
methods of experimental psychology to probe the way people think about philosophical …

Knobe (2003a, 2003b, 2004b) and others have demonstrated the surprising fact that the
valence of a side‐effect action can affect intuitions about whether that action was performed …

A series of recent studies have shown that people's moral judgments can affect their
intuitions as to whether or not a behavior was performed intentionally. Prior attempts to …

In this paper, I first review some of the recent empirical work on the biasing effect that moral
considerations have on folk ascriptions of intentional action. Then, I use Mark Alicke's …

Recent studies point to a surprising divergence between people's use of the concept of
intention and their use of the concept of acting intentionally. It seems that people's …

Past work has demonstrated that people's moral judgments can influence their judgments in
a number of domains that might seem to involve straightforward matters of fact, including …

Our interest in this paper is to drive a wedge of contention between two different programs
that fall under the umbrella of “experimental philosophy”. In particular, we argue that …

A coherent practice of mens rea ('guilty mind') ascription in criminal law presupposes a
concept of mens rea which is insensitive to the moral valence of an action's outcome. For …