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 The Experimental Philosophy Page

Organizations

Experimental Philosophy Society (XPS)
An organization that holds group meetings for experimental philosophy at conferences of the American Philosophical Association.

Experimental Philosophy Group UK
A forum for experimental philosophy that holds annual workshops in Bristol, Nottingham, and Sheffield. 

Metro Experimental Research Group (MERG)
A New York-area group that holds regular meetings to discuss work in experimental philosophy. Open to anyone at any school in the NYC area.

X-Phi Europe (Polish)
A group based on Wroclaw, Poland that holds regular meetings to discuss topics and papers in experimental philosophy.

Labs

Arizona's Experimental Philosophy Lab
Lab co-directors: Shaun Nichols and Jonathan Weinberg
Current research topics: epistemic intuitions, norm learning, attributions of consciousness, and conceptions of the self.

Bristol's Experimental Philosophy Page
Lab directors: Ken Binmore and Bryony Pierce
Current research topics: economics theories of bargaining, heuristics and biases in ethical judgments; intuitions about free will.

Buffalo's Experimental Epistemology Research Group (EERG)
Lab director: James R. Beebe
Current research topics: folk knowledge attributions and (despite the lab's name) folk metaethical intuitions.

The Ethical Decision-Making and Ethical Naturalism (EDEN) Lab
Lab director: Adam Feltz
Current research topics: individual differences in philosophical judgments, applied ethics, and prescriptive models of decision making.

Experimental Ethics Lab (EEL) at TU München
Lab director: Christoph Lütge; Junior directors: Hannes Rusch & Matthias Uhl
Current research topics: ethics of competition and markets, biases in moral judgement, cooperative behavior, paternalism and ethical compliance.

MU Experimental Philosophy Lab
Lab director: Philip Robbins
Current research topics: intuitions about moral agency and moral patiency; the relation of dimensions of mindedness to dimensions of morality; the connection between moral judgment and moral motivation; dispositional and contextual effects on moral judgment.

Porto X-Phi Lab
Lab director: Carlos Mauro
Current research topics: The folk concepts of weakness and strength of will; the folk metaphysics of free action and moral responsibility; judgments of moral wrongdoing and affective competencies.

Yale's Experimental Philosophy Lab (EPL)
Lab director: Joshua Knobe
Current research topics: The impact of moral judgment on apparently non-moral questions; intuitions about free will, consciousness, and the "true self."