Аннотация:The research serves as an introduction to experimental philosophy andintroduces a special journal issue on this topic. We trace a brief history of experimentalphilosophy and consider different variants of its interpretation. Building upon this, we proposethe interpretation of experimental philosophy not as a particular direction or stage in thedevelopment of philosophical thought but rather as a radical change in the method ofphilosophical inquiries, involving the synthesis of traditional philosophical research methodsand methodology of empirical (primarily cognitive) science to solve philosophical problems.An important characteristic feature of experimental philosophy, so defined, is itsinterdisciplinarity. The philosopher does not just use the results of empirical research but canparticipate in research at all stages, starting with constructing a model of the phenomenon orprocess under study and hypothesizing, consistently going through the selection of stimulusmaterial and the design of the experiment towards the interpretation of the results and theirphilosophical understanding. This interpretation of experimental philosophy opens up thepossibility of experimental philosophical research in any field, from epistemology or ontologyto logic and philosophy of language, without a far-fetched division into analytical andexperimental versions. At the same time, the authors emphasize the remarkable fruitfulness of(neuro)phenomenology, which, due to its appeal to direct subjective experience, turns out to bemethodologically close to the natural sciences. The final part provides a brief overview of thestudies in the thematic issue.Keywords: experimental philosophy, cognitive turn, neurophenomenology, cognitivescience