Experimental philosophy has been engaged in many fields of philosophy and has tried to challenge philosophy from a new horizon. In this article, I have tried to examine what the role of sciences are (especially neuroscience) in altering people’s intuition about free will. Could science educate people’s philosophical intuitions? If yes, should we still rely on their intuition as a rational instrument for our philosophical questions? Do science plus cultural and social differences effect on folks’ view? In this cross-cultural research, the emphasis is mostly on recent breakthroughs on neuroscience and its impact on people’s perspective to free will. I have asked some questions about free will and determinism from two groups of Iranian and European participants. The results of this study revealed an interesting amount of cross-cultural similarities. The findings showed that people have a relatively independent view to free will and determinism. It seems that manipulating laymen’s opinion by either the idea of scientific determinism or living under pressure and challenging social conditions cannot touch their perspective. I tried to indicate that the techniques of experimental philosophy and the data offered might help us to learn more and more about the psychological processes, in the mind of the folks, that engender philosophical problems.

实验哲学涉足哲学的诸多领域，并试图从新的视野挑战哲学。在本文中，我试图研究科学（尤其是神经科学）在改变人们对自由意志的直觉方面的作用。科学能教育人们的哲学直觉吗？如果是，我们是否还应该依靠他们的直觉作为我们哲学问题的理性工具？科学加上文化和社会差异会影响人们的观点吗？在这项跨文化研究中，重点主要集中在神经科学的最新突破及其对人们对自由意志的看法的影响。我向伊朗和欧洲的两组参与者询问了一些关于自由意志和决定论的问题。这项研究的结果揭示了许多有趣的跨文化相似之处。研究结果表明，人们对自由意志和决定论有着相对独立的看法。似乎通过科学决定论的思想或生活在压力和充满挑战的社会条件下来操纵外行的意见，都无法触及他们的观点。我试图表明，实验哲学的技术和提供的数据可能会帮助我们越来越多地了解人们心中产生哲学问题的心理过程。