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Foundations of X-Phi: how empirical findings can help resolve philosophical problems. Experimental philosophy of language: polysemy; metaphor; stereotypes; how automatic language processing shapes verbal reasoning. Experimental philosophy of experience, perception, and consciousness: Verbal reasoning about experience; folk beliefs about vision; belief fragmentation. Empirical methods: eye tracking, questionnaire-based experiments, distributional semantic analysis, corpus methods.

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Foundations of X-Phi: empirical methods' contribution to philosophy, including conceptual engineering. Experimental ethics and aesthetics: testimony; reliability of intuitions; intuitions about realism. Experimental epistemology: epistemic consequentialism; epistemic contextualism. Experimental meta-philosophy: philosophers’ and non-philosophers’ perceptions of philosophy and its methods, and use of key vocabulary. Empirical methods: questionnaire-based experiments, corpus analysis, qualitative methods.

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Experimental philosophy of mind: development of theory of mind; mental files; metarepresentational and metacognitive development; gaze judgement; Western and East-Asian cross-cultural comparisons (perceptual styles, metarepresentational development). Empirical methods: experiment-based methods with preschool children, psychophysical methods, questionnaire-based experiments.

For more information visit: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/martin-doherty​

Experimental philosophy of language: conditionals, miscommunication, speaker intentions, accountability, offensive language, non-representational aspects of meaning. Empirical methods: corpus analysis, interactional analysis, qualitative methods.

For more information visit: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/chi-h%C3%A9-elder​

Experimental philosophy of language: polysemy; metaphor; stereotypes; how automatic language processing shapes verbal reasoning. Empirical methods: eye tracking, questionnaire-based experiments.

For more information visit: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/paul-engelhardt​

Moral psychology: theories of moral judgment, moral reasoning, conceptions of harm and injustice, normative objectivism, disagreement. Experimental semantics: modal and deontic concepts, experimental formal semantics. Empirical methods: Questionnaire-based experiments, psychophysical methods.

For more information visit: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/miklos-kurthy​

Moral psychology and moral development: children’s and adults’ moral judgements; the influences of intention, negligence and outcome information on judgements; moral luck. Experimental philosophy of mind: belief coherence and fragmentation; children's acquisition of scientific knowledge; folk biological and astronomical concepts; mental models; theory-theory; conceptual change. Empirical methods: Questionnaire-based experiments; experimental, structured, and semi-structured interviews; mixed methods.

For more information visit: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/gavin-nobes​

Experimental philosophy of mind: belief coherence and fragmentation; knowledge acquisition in scientific domains; folk biological and astronomical concepts; mental models; theory-theory; conceptual change and scientific beliefs. Empirical methods: Questionnaire-based experiments; structured and semi-structured interviews; mixed methods.

For more information visit: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/georgia-panagiotaki​

Experimental philosophy of memory:semantic memory, episodic memory and their interactions. Experimental philosophy of language: comprehension, role of novelty. Empirical methods: Questionnaires evaluating objective (accuracy) and subjective (confidence, vividness, visual perspective) aspects of memory retrieval, autobiographical interviews, functional neuroimaging (EEG and fMRI)

For more information visit https://memoryandageing.uea.ac.uk/​

Concepts of time: linguistic and cultural variation, in the context of socio-cognitive practices employing symbolic cognitive artefacts. The ontological turn in anthropology and its implications for classifying conceptual domains, e.g., in conceptual metaphor theory. Human symbolic evolution and evolution of language in the light of biocultural niche construction theory. Empirical methods: (field) experiment, ethnography.

For more information visit: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/christopher-sinha​