Rik Peels is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Responsible Belief: A Theory in Ethics and Epistemology (2016), editor of Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy (Routledge, 2017), and co-editor of The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance (2016) and Scientism: Problems and Prospects (forthcoming).
Jeroen de Ridder is Associate Professor of Philosophy and NWO Vidi Research Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is co-editor of Scientism: Problems and Prospects (forthcoming) and The Future of Creation Order (forthcoming).
René van Woudenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid (2005) and Scientism: Problems and Prospects (forthcoming).
This book features essays by scientists on topics related to common sense beliefs, including space, time, free will and identity, rationality, morality, and religious belief. Philosophers from the common sense tradition then explore the connection between common sense philosophy and debates in the empirical sciences.
1. Introduction: The Paradox of Science and Common Sense
Rik Peels, Jeroen de Ridder, and René van Woudenberg
2. Common Sense, Philosophy, and Science
Noah Lemos
3. How the Many Worlds Interpretation Brings Common Sense to Paradoxical Quantum Experiments
Kelvin J. McQueen and Lev Vaidman
4. Why the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Needs More Than Hilbert Space Structure
Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker
5. Common Sense and Relativistic Supercoincidence
Yuri Balashov
6. Coincidence Problems without Properties
Peter van Inwagen
7. Conceptual Revisions: Intentions and Free Will in the Light of Cognitive Neuroscience
Pim Haselager
8. The Emergence of Free, Intentional Control: Reply to Haselager
Tim O'Connor
9. Psychological Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy: Illusions of Introspection and Free Will
Brett W. Pelham, Michael Harding, and Curtis Hardin
10. Radically Self-Deceived? Not So Fast
Fleur Jongepier and Quassim Cassam
11. Common Sense Morality and Its Evolutionary Underpinnings
Michael Ruse
12. Evolution and Moral Common Sense: Why You Can't Have It Both Ways; A Response to Ruse
Regina Rini
13. Dual-Inheritance, Common Sense, and the Justification of Religious Belief
Taylor Davis
14. Cultural Evolution and Debunking Arguments: A Response to Davis
Aku Visala