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Experimental Philosophy Is One Of The Most Active And Exciting Areas In Philosophy Today. In Current Controversies In Experimental Philosophy, Elizabeth O'neill And Edouard Machery Have Brought Together Twelve Leading Philosophers To Debate Four Topics Central To Recent Research In Experimental Philosophy. The Result Is An Important And Enticing Contribution To Contemporary Philosophy Which Thoroughly Reframes Traditional Philosophical Questions In Light Of Experimental Philosophers’ Use Of Empirical Research Methods, And Brings To Light The Lively Debates Within Experimental Philosophers' Intellectual Community. What Is The Significance Of The Demographic Variation In Semantic Intuitions? / Edouard Machery -- Reference And Experimental Semantics / Genoveva Martí -- You, Robot / Brian Fiala, Adam Arico, And Shaun Nichols -- The Robots Of The Dawn Of Experimental Philosophy Of Mind / Justin Sytsma -- Free Will And The Scientific Vision / Joshua Knobe -- A Naturalistic Vision Of Free Will / Eddy Nahmias And Morgan Thompson -- The Reliability Of Epistemic Intuitions / Kenneth Boyd And Jennifer Nagel -- The Unreliability Of Epistemic Intuitions / Joshua Alexander And Jonathan M. Weinberg. Edited By Edouard Machery And Elizabeth O'neill. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.