Emile comments on Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 29 November 2012 03:07:10PM 6 points [-]

"Experimental Philosophy" sounds almost like an oxymoron. If it was really "experimental", it would be science, not philosophy.

Neither Philosophy nor Science are clearly delimited concepts that can be defined by a short sentence; like a lot of categories they are fuzzy and may overlap. Some activities called "doing science" are not experimental (abstract Math), and some experimental activities are not usually called "science" (testing a video game).