RSS FEED IDEMS: Experimental Philosophy
- It looks like I was wrong
It is now widely agreed that people's moral judgments have some impact on their intuitions about whether a behavior was performed intentionally, but there has been considerable disagreement about precisely what sort of moral judgment is having an impact here....
- Causation Survey at TAR
I just noticed that Brian Weatherson recently ran an on-line survey about causation over at TAR. I thought perhaps some of the readers of this blog might want to participate in the unfolding discussion....
- Neurolaw in The NY Times
I thought some of you might be interested in this article from The NY Times--which is called, The Brain on the Stand. Happy reading!...
- New Additions...
I wanted to welcome yet two more people to the blog. The first is Marica Bernstein--the scientist responsible for this interesting paper (and subsequent discussion). The second is Liane Young--who is a grad student in Marc Hauser's Cognitive Evolution Lab...
- A scientist looks at x-phi (with, er, mixed results)
The biologist Marica Bernstein recently presented a paper at the Mid-South Philosophy Conference in which she took a random survey of papers in x-phi, and evaluated how well we as a group are doing on which of a large number...
- Side Effects Revisited
In an earlier paper I tentatively floated an account of how ascriptions of intentional action might work in side effect cases. If I modify it slightly, I get the following:In cases involving side effects, an agent will (normally) be judged...
- The Situationist Revisited
I know I already plugged the new blog over at Harvard entitled The Situationist--but given (a) how actively they have been posting over there, and (b) how interesting and informative many of the posts have been, I thought I would...
- Comment Thread Malfunction
For some reason, comments are showing up in the threads, but they are not showing up in the side-bar under Recent Comments. So, if you have been participating in some of the threads, you may need to look at them...
- Exciting new findings!
John Bengson and I have been conducting some new research that those interested in the potential influence of evaluative considerations on intentionality attributions -- the 'Knobe effect' -- may find interesting. Specifically, our research has focused on the connection between...
- Two More Join the Fray...
I would just like to take this opportunity to welcome David Faraci and Peter Jaworski to the blog. David and Peter--philosophy grad students at Bowling Green State University--are preparing to run some interesting studies on folk intuions concerning the directness...
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