The practice of Experimental Philosophy appears to be wholly comprised of administering questionnaires to the philosophically naïve in order to ascertain their philosophic “intuitions” .
My proposal is simply that in writing up their results the experimenters should feel obliged to include at least one section in which they, the experimenters, say what they believe are the correct answers to each of the questions they have asked. Where the experimenters’ opinions diverge from their subjects’ revealed intuitions, the experimenters should try to explain why the subjects got it wrong.
This requirement would sensitize the experimenters and alert the audience to potential issues of experimenter bias–always danger in any kind of survey — and would also have the salutary benefit of ensuring that some actual philosophy was done in the course of the proceedings.
