Joshua Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Siena College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4196-4597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Standing Up for Philosophy: Armchairs, Experiments, and the Case for Methodological Reform
In Standing Up for Philosophy, Jonathan Weinberg and Joshua Alexander seek to radically reformulate the debate over the method of cases, and whether results in experimental philosophy have shown that the armchair version of that method should perhaps be abandoned. Experimental philosophy ("X-phi") seems to indicate that our verdicts about thought experiments are vulnerable to demographic variation and unconscious contextual influences. Yet experi…
Salient Alternatives in Perspective
This paper empirically investigates how perspective bears on putative salient alternative effects on knowledge ascriptions. Some theoretical accounts predict salient alternative effects in both first- and third-person perspective conditions. These include semantic accounts such as contextualism [Lewis 1996 Lewis, D. 1996. Elusive Knowledge, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74/4: 549–67. doi: 10.1080/00048409612347521[Taylor & Francis Online], […
The Instability of Philosophical Intuitions: Running Hot and Cold on Truetemp
A growing body of empirical literature challenges philosophers’ reliance on intuitions as evidence based on the fact that intuitions vary according to factors such as cultural and educational background, and socio‐economic status. Our research extends this challenge, investigating Lehrer’s appeal to the Truetemp Case as evidence against reliabilism. We found that intuitions in response to this case vary according to whether, and which, other thou…
Analytic Epistemology and Experimental Philosophy
It has been standard philosophical practice in analytic philosophy to employ intuitions generated in response to thought-experiments as evidence in the evaluation of philosophical claims. In part as a response to this practice, an exciting new movement -experimental philosophy- has recently emerged. This movement is unified behind both a common methodology and a common aim: the application of methods of experimental psychology to the study of the…
The Instability of Philosophical Intuitions: Running Hot and Cold on Truetemp
A growing body of empirical literature challenges philosophers’ reliance on intuitions as evidence based on the fact that intuitions vary according to factors such as cultural and educational background, and socio‐economic status. Our research extends this challenge, investigating Lehrer’s appeal to the Truetemp Case as evidence against reliabilism. We found that intuitions in response to this case vary according to whether, and which, other thou…
Analytic Epistemology and Experimental Philosophy
It has been standard philosophical practice in analytic philosophy to employ intuitions generated in response to thought-experiments as evidence in the evaluation of philosophical claims. In part as a response to this practice, an exciting new movement -experimental philosophy- has recently emerged. This movement is unified behind both a common methodology and a common aim: the application of methods of experimental psychology to the study of the…
Analytic Epistemology and Experimental Philosophy
It has been standard philosophical practice in analytic philosophy to employ intuitions generated in response to thought-experiments as evidence in the evaluation of philosophical claims. In part as a response to this practice, an exciting new movement -experimental philosophy- has recently emerged. This movement is unified behind both a common methodology and a common aim: the application of methods of experimental psychology to the study of the…
The Instability of Philosophical Intuitions: Running Hot and Cold on Truetemp
A growing body of empirical literature challenges philosophers’ reliance on intuitions as evidence based on the fact that intuitions vary according to factors such as cultural and educational background, and socio‐economic status. Our research extends this challenge, investigating Lehrer’s appeal to the Truetemp Case as evidence against reliabilism. We found that intuitions in response to this case vary according to whether, and which, other thou…
Salient Alternatives in Perspective
This paper empirically investigates how perspective bears on putative salient alternative effects on knowledge ascriptions. Some theoretical accounts predict salient alternative effects in both first- and third-person perspective conditions. These include semantic accounts such as contextualism [Lewis 1996 Lewis, D. 1996. Elusive Knowledge, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74/4: 549–67. doi: 10.1080/00048409612347521[Taylor & Francis Online], […
Standing Up for Philosophy: Armchairs, Experiments, and the Case for Methodological Reform
In Standing Up for Philosophy, Jonathan Weinberg and Joshua Alexander seek to radically reformulate the debate over the method of cases, and whether results in experimental philosophy have shown that the armchair version of that method should perhaps be abandoned. Experimental philosophy ("X-phi") seems to indicate that our verdicts about thought experiments are vulnerable to demographic variation and unconscious contextual influences. Yet experi…
Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 works) · Experimental philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophical methodology (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Analytic philosophy (1 works) · Appeal (1 works)