Experimental philosophy and metaphysics

In a number of recent papers, advocates of the so-called “Experimental Philosophy” movement have launched a quite radical attack against traditional philosophical methods – such as conceptual analysis, thought experiments, and appeal to intuitions. Against such an attack, in this paper I defend the thesis that once we interpret the traditional methods of philosophical inquire in broadly Quinean terms, the sort of empirical evidence that experimental philosophers employ turns out to be irrelevant.