My mind kind of boggled after reading your comment. First of all “Experimental Philosophy” sounds almost like an oxymoron. If it was really “experimental”, it would be science, not philosophy.
Well it doesn’t matter that much what you call it. Since it is addressing questions are the mainly of interest to philosophers and that philosophers are trying to answer, I think it’s useful to call it “experimental philosophy”.
But secondly… debate about the reliability of intuitions, really ? Isn’t this basically a very strong sign that modern philosophy can safely be ignored, just like modern astrology ?
Most of the reliance on intuitions in philosophy is for doing conceptual analysis, so figuring out what people mean by terms like knowledge, which there may be problems with, but philosophers aren’t relying on intuitions to resolve questions such as what’s going to happen to me me in the future, like astrologists are.
Well it doesn’t matter that much what you call it. Since it is addressing questions are the mainly of interest to philosophers and that philosophers are trying to answer, I think it’s useful to call it “experimental philosophy”.
Most of the reliance on intuitions in philosophy is for doing conceptual analysis, so figuring out what people mean by terms like knowledge, which there may be problems with, but philosophers aren’t relying on intuitions to resolve questions such as what’s going to happen to me me in the future, like astrologists are.