Abstract:Experimental philosophy purports to investigate folk intuitions about a wide array of topics. But can we be sure that the measures used by experimental philosophers succeed in capturing the intuitions they were intended to? Such questions about the content validity of measures in experimental philosophy have been at the heart of many methodological debates. In this chapter, my first goal is to argue that calibration methods - the fact of using measures on control cases in which we already know what participant… Show more
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