Can a lobster ever truly have any emotions? What about a sophisticated computer? The only way to resolve these questions conclusively would be to engage in serious scientific inquiry?but even before studying the scientific literature, many people have pretty clear intuitions about what the answers are going to be.
The new field of experimental philosophy introduces a novel twist on this traditional approach. Experimental philosophers continue the search to understand people’s ordinary intuitions, but they do so using the methods of contemporary…
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