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14 óra 6 percFebruary 1, 2012
17:30
CFA: Moral Psychology and Poverty Alleviation Matthew Lindauer, Gilad Tanay, Thomas Pogge, Josha Knobe and I are organizing a conference on the topic of what motivates people to act on their moral duties to aid the global poor. Our hope...
January 31, 2012
01:58
Throughout most of the 20th century, the medical community knew that large amounts of stress causes stomach ulcers—or at least they though they did. In the 80s Dr. Barry Marshall, convinced that the medical community had it all wrong, infected...
January 22, 2012
13:44
The new website for the recently formed Society for Philosophy of Agency is now up here. The Society is now accepting applications for membership. Membership is free and open to graduate students, professional philosophers, and researchers working on issues about...
January 19, 2012
15:33
Dr. Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich) offers under the usual equal opportunity conditions one doctoral researcher position OR one early postdoctorial researcher position (i.e., if the PhD is obtained after January 1, 2011) to work in...
January 9, 2012
16:35
Hi everyone, I wanted to distribute another CFP on behalf of some friends for a special issue that looks to be of interest to lots of folks in this group! Enjoy, Fiery ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Journal of COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH Call...
January 7, 2012
16:22
3rd Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK, 8-9th September 2012, University of Nottingham Deadline for Submission: 7th July 2012 Experimental Philosophy Group UK invites the submission of 500-word abstracts for 45-minute presentations or poster presentations on the subject of...
January 5, 2012
20:15
Our response is on line on PPR's website.
January 4, 2012
19:11
Shaun Nichols and I are happy to be reprising the NEH Summer Institute in Experimental Philosophy this July in Tucson. Details are here: http://epi.arizona.edu/ Applications are due March 1st. Institutes are designed for teachers of American undergraduate students. Because of...
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Carruthers is interviewed in 3am: "It requires a long apprenticeship to design and implement experiments effectively. While there has been some good work done by people in the experimental philosophy movement, whenever I talk to psychologists about this stuff I...
January 2, 2012
17:37
Hi everyone, just wanted to send out a quick reminder about the upcoming submission deadline for the annual meeting of the Society for Philosphy and Psychology, June 21-23 in Boulder, CO. Download a PDF copy here. Hope to see you...
December 26, 2011
18:21
Adam Waytz and I are guest editing a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology on consciousness attribution in moral cognition. As a recent post on this blog notes, "two favorite topics of X-Phi are morality and how...
December 20, 2011
15:00
Penn's Center for Neuroscience & Society--one of the world's leading neuroethics institutes--is once again hosting its annual Neuroscience Boot Camp. Here is some salient information: Why? Neuroscience is increasingly relevant to a number of professions and academic disciplines beyond its...
December 16, 2011
23:23
David Colaço, Wes Buckwalter and I have recently posted a paper on SSRN reporting a surprising age effect in “fake-barn” style thought experiments. Here’s the Abstract: In epistemology, fake-barn thought experiments are often taken to be intuitively clear cases in...
December 15, 2011
17:01
Two favorite topics of X-Phi are morality and how we perceive the minds of others. In a recent paper, Liane Young, Adam Waytz and I argue that the very essence of moral judgment is mind perception. Briefly, we outline the...
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A funky little piece by Richard Marshall, if y'all haven't already noticed.
December 12, 2011
14:00
Suppose one asserts that there is a cat on the mat, when--in fact--there is a cat on the mat. Is the accuracy of this assertion sufficient for truth? In a recent study inspired by Arne Naess’ 1938 ("Truth" as Conceived...
November 22, 2011
19:50
Philosophers have often claimed that people are less inclined to attribute knowledge in cases where the stakes are high than in cases where the stakes are low, and there is a complex and sophisticated debate in the epistemology literature about...
November 21, 2011
21:09
Sorry, try this link: http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/hassoun/Disclaimer_howpeoplethinkaboutmeetingneed.php Alternately, you can find it here: http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/hassoun/papers.php Cheers, -Nicole
21:07
I've just posted a draft paper on how people think about meeting needs co-written with Nathan Lubchenco on my website here: How People Think About Meeting Need. Comments would be lovely. The abstract is below: This paper tries to determine...
November 14, 2011
05:39
Congrats to our own Eddy Nahmias, who has an op-ed on neuroscience and free will in today's NYT Opinionator/The Stone entitled, "Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?"
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