Experimental Philosophy

The MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project (along with the SAGE Center at UCSB) recently published A Judge's Guide to Neuroscience: A Concise Introduction. The useful manual contains articles by Marcus Raichle, Michael Gazzaniga, Adina Roskies, Read Montague, Scott Grafton, and...

Join MERG on Friday, July 30th, for an Experimental Philosophy Lab Meeting at NYU. Presenters will include Jeff Sebo (New York University) and Jonathan Phillips (Yale University). The lab meeting will run from 3:00-5:00 pm in room 202 of the...

The Experimental Philosophy Group UK are pleased to publish a full programme for their 1st Workshop to be held in the Philosophy Department, University of Bristol, UK from 1:00pm till 6:30pm on Wednesday 15th September 2010. 1:00pm-2:00pm, David Papineau (KCL),...

In a fascinating new blog post, paper, and discussion, N. Ángel Pinillos offers us some new experimental evidence suggesting that unlike some earlier results, subject stakes do in fact influence third-person mental state attributions of knowledge. Specifically, Pinillos shows that...

Robin Scaife and I have a new paper on intentional side-effects forthcoming in Journal of Moral Philosophy. You can download a draft here. The paper argues against the consensus view that experiments have shown a normative dimension to the folk...

Christian Miller asked me to post the following information about The Character Project: The past 30 years have seen a resurgence of interest in character, particularly in the areas of psychology, philosophy, and theology. This work has given rise to...

Nicholas Iles asked me to pass along the following job advertisement (seehere for more details): Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Moral Cognition FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics Grade 7: Salary £28,983...

Registration is now open for the 1st Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK, to be held in the Philosophy Department, University of Bristol, UK from 13:00 till 18:30 on Wednesday 15th September 2010. Keynote presentations will be given by...

John Doris's The Moral Psychology Handbook (OUP) is now available. So, you should check it out. Here is the description: The Moral Psychology Handbook offers a survey of contemporary moral psychology, integrating evidence and argument from philosophy and the human...

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away (that’s the early 90s) Keith DeRose’s famous bank cases forever changed the thought experiment multiverse. Since their original inception, there’s been lots of well-known and exciting work developing these probes...

It has sometimes been suggested that people's ordinary representations of action take the form of an 'action tree.' So, for example, if the chairman implements a policy that increases profits and helps the environment, people might represent his action like...

David Rose and I have finished a very short (~1000 words) Encyclopedia entry on Experimental Philosophy. Read it here: Download Encyclopedia 03. Comments are welcome! EM

Paul Wolpe asked me to pass along the following CFP from AJOB Neuroscience: Now, I seek submissions from you, your colleagues, and your graduate students. First, we are encouraging general submissions to the journal. Please consider submitting articles yourself or...

Jabir Yusoff sent me the following message: My name is Jabir and I am a student at Carleton College. My research friends and I are currently working on an x-phi project on the topic of personal identity. We are trying...

Hi everyone. Here is the draft of a new paper I wrote with Hichem Naar. Its main purpose is to present empirical data that spell trouble for Sripada's Deep Self model of intentionality judgments. Briefly, the paper shows that (i)...

Thomas Grundmann and I would like to announce that the first of two special issues of Philosophical Psychology on experimental philosophy is out now. The issues are entitled "Experimental Philosophy and Its Critics, Parts 1 and 2", with all of...

EURO-XPRAG third call for proposals (open) Collaborative research in Experimental Pragmatics Travel grants for short visits http://www.euro-xprag.org/activities/call-for-proposals/ Experimental pragmatics investigates and develops explicit theories of language use and of communication using the methodologies of psycholinguistics and, more generally, of experimental...

CFP 1st Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK 13:00 – 18:30, 15th September 2010, University of Bristol Submission Deadline: 16th July 2010 Experimental Philosophy Group UK invites the submission of 500-word abstracts on the topic of experimental philosophy for...

Hi Everyone, My name is David Rose and I am new to this blog and happy to be contributing. Jonathan Livengood, Justin Sytsma, Edouard Machery and I have written a paper discussing Chandra Sripada's Deep Self Model of intentional action....

Hi Everyone. I am linking here a new paper with a bunch of new studies about knowledge and practical interests. The main claims are that (1) folk attributions of knowledge are sensitive to stakes, (2) the data presented supports Interest...