We all treat some things as having moral standing, while denying it of others. Humans got it and chairs lack it. Why? Many of us feel it is morally wrong to harm chimpanzees, but few lose sleep over ...
The following job post might be of interest to readers of this blog: UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO (SUNY), Buffalo NY. 2 Year Non-Tenure Track Full Time Faculty Position, beginning Fall 2012. Four courses pe...
You all will probably remember the experimental film maker Ben Coonley, who was the creative force behind the YouTube video on the side-effect effect starring Eugene Mirman. Well, he's back, and...
This evening, I sent my book manuscript, Character as Moral Fiction, to Cambridge University Press to begin production. Here's a draft of the cover: While the book doesn't cover new experim...
Our own Eddy Nahmias has an illuminating interview with 3:AM's Richard Marshall--who has been doing a number of really nice interviews as of late with a wide variety of philosophers. So, when yo...
Thanks to Ian Church for sending along the following Call for Proposals:IH: Overview This program will provide up to $4.0 million in research support for empirical work on the virtue Intellectual Hum...
<updated 5/20, 4:40pm ET, see italics> So I wrote a paper last year on a problem outside of my AOS and submitted it to a journal. The paper was about 20 pages long, and at the time, I thought t...
The field of experimental philosophy tends to be dominated by graduate students, with many of the most important discoveries in any given year coming from people who are still very early in their car...
[cross-posted on Think: Just Do It!] I am wondering what readers think about the following analogy: perceptual judgments : perceptual illusions :: intuitive judgments : intuition pumps Perceptual jud...
I hereby extend a profession-wide invitation to contribute to a new blog I have created that aims to be "by and for" early-career philosophers (including experimental philosophers!): The Ph...
Brian Robinson, Paul Stey, and I have been working on a theory of the Knobe effect that draws on my collaboration with Beebe and Robinson. The basic idea is to use non-moral psychological processes t...
... is out now and it offers both the first (high-level) introductory textbook on the new field and a nice critical discussion of what people in and out of the field should be thinking about in the f...
A little over a year ago Wesley Buckwalter posted the results of an experiment in which he investigated the impact of the epistemic side-effect effect (or epistemic Knobe effect) on intuitions about ...
Hi everyone, As everyone here knows, Nichols and Knobe (Nous, 2007) have uncovered two striking constrasts in intuitions about free will and determinism. In their first experiment, they have found a ...
An excellent paper with this title is now published online at Consciousness and Cognition. It is by Joshua Shepard, a graduate student at FSU. The paper is here, but if your institution does not all...
Routledge has recently published "Experimental Philosophy and its Critics", edited by Thomas Grundmann and me. The book is a reprint of two special issues of Philosophical Psychology (2010,...
***UPDATE*** The experiment month webpage, with more information, is now available here. As many of you know, a year ago we conducted the first Experiment Month Initiative, a program designed to help...
The Monist 95:2 April 2012, Special Issue on Experimental Philosophy Advisory Editor: James Beebe, University at Buffalo (jbeebe2@buffalo.edu) Table of Contents Amie L. Thomasson, “Experimental Philo...
Deadline: 7th July 2012 Workshop: 'Intuitions, Experiments and Philosophy', 3rd Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK, 8-9th September 2012, University of Nottingham, UK Experime...
...is now available online. Since the last version, we added new participants, but failed to find any significant difference between control participants and patients with behavioural variant of fron...
CALL FOR PAPERS Buffalo Experimental Philosophy Conference October 5th & 6th, 2012 Keynote speaker: Joshua Knobe (Yale) Submissions are invited on any topic pertaining to experimental philosophy....
Yale University SML Lecture Hall April 13th, 9am-5pm Moral Psychology and Poverty Alleviation Participants will discuss how cognitive science and moral psychology can help to more effectively motiv...
As some of you will know, I have an abiding interest in the moral behavior of ethics professors. I've collected a variety of evidence suggesting that ethics professors behave on average no moral...
Call for papers: Topoi conference and special issue Intentions: Philosophical and Empirical Issues Rome, Italy, 29-30 November 2012We are proud to announce that the first Topoi Conference will be hel...
Readers of the blog might be interested in Marcus Arvan's new follow-up study on Conservatism and Dark Triad Personality Traits now published in Neuroethics. His previous results, discussed on t...
MERG is hosting a mini-conference at NYU on some exciting new work in experimental philosophy on Friday, March 16th. The four talks include: Zoltan Szabo, Impure Modals Matthew Liao, The Doctrine of ...
People's responses to hypothetical moral scenarios can vary substantially depending on the order in which those scenarios are presented (e.g., Lombrozo 2009). Consider the well-known "Switc...
Just a reminder that submissions for the special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology on consciousness attribution in moral cognition are due at the end of this month. Our expended list o...
Ron Mallon and Shaun Nichols are reprising the NEH Summer Institute in Experimental Philosophy this July in Tucson. Details are here: http://epi.arizona.edu/ They are still looking for application...
A new study confirms what philosophers have long suspected: ordinary folk disapprove of violently killing innocent bystanders. The study, published this week in Science, is turning heads less for it...
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