Examining experiments in language from a variety of perspectives, this volume asks what form they should take and what should count as evidence. Looking at corpora, intuitions and thought experiments, the collection shows linguists and philosophers how the use of experimental methods can affect the arguments they employ and the claims they make.

Martin Hinton is a lecturer at the Institute of English at the University of ?ód?. He graduated in philosophy from the University of St Andrews before completing a second masters degree and a doctorate in linguistics in ?ód?. He combines these two fields with research work on argumentation theory and the methodology of linguistics.

Contents: Martin Hinton: Introduction – Geoffrey Sampson: Two Ideas of Creativity – Katarzyna Paprzycka: Methodological Reflections on Academic and Experimental Philosophy: The Case of the Omissions Account – Mark Pinder: Folk Semantic Intuitions, Arguments from Reference and Eliminative Materialism – Anna Dro?d?owicz: Speakers’ Intuitions about Meaning Provide Empirical Evidence - Towards Experimental Pragmatics – Roland Bluhm: Corpus Analysis in Philosophy – Leszek Szyma?ski: The Interaction of Negated Must and Grammatical Aspect in Contemporary American English - an Empirical Contribution to Aspect-modality Interaction Studies – Martin Hinton: Lies, Damned Lies and Linguistic Intuitions – Martin Vacek: Possible Worlds and Advanced Modalizing Problems – Lukáš Bielik: Thought Experiments in Semantics – Arkadiusz Gut/Micha? Wilczewski: The Role of Language in the Emergence of Mature Belief Reasoning and Social Cognition.