September 2, 2005
Lessons From the Park
Chatting with people in a public park about a hypothetical profit-hungry executive is not the way philosophers usually gain their insights.
But it is how Joshua Knobe, a newly minted Ph.D. from Princeton University, has rocked the philosophical establishment and earned a place at the leading edge of the discipline in a new field called "experimental philosophy."
The field uses the empirical tools of psychology to address philosophical questions, designing experiments to test how
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