RT Article
T1 Experimenting with philosophy of religion: Lessons from two decades of experimental philosophy
JF Religious studies
VO 61
IS S1
A1 Rezkalla, Paul
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1930136722
AB In this paper, I bring together several strands of criticism of experimental philosophy and draw out certain lessons for the nascent field of experimental philosophy of religion (XPoR). I argue that the negative/positive distinction conflates several underlying questions that conceptually come apart, thus undermining the framework such that XPoR need not try to accommodate the framework. I then argue that for certain topics of study in XPoR, the folk may actually be treated as a kind of ‘expert’ class, thus defending the utility of gauging folk beliefs on those issues. Lastly, I offer some reflections on the etic/emic distinction as it relates to the philosopher/folk divide with respect to topics in XPoR.
K1 Experimental philosophy
K1 Expertise
K1 Intuition
K1 philosophical methodology
K1 Philosophy of religion
DO 10.1017/S0034412525000150