Experimental Philosophy

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...

I've had a chance to read Keith DeRose's very interesting & rich engagement with some of the experimental epistemology literature, and there's a lot in it that's clearly going to be useful to x-phi practitioners to learn from & absorb....

A recent episode of the NPR show 'This American Life' takes up the question of group agency and, in particular, the degree to which people are willing to ascribe psychological states to corporations. Oddly enough, the presenters end up getting...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The European Centre for Life Sciences, Health and the Courts, University of Pavia, in cooperation with the Court of Milan, Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia and the international group on Neuroscience & Law, announces the International Conference: “Neuroscience...

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Join MERG on Friday, June 18th, for an Experimental Philosophy Lab Meeting at NYU. Presenters will include Keith DeRose (Yale University) and Jennifer Nado (Rutgers University). The lab meeting will run from 3:00-5:00 pm in room 202 of the NYU...

... a wee bit of experimental data.

You may have noticed our ad on this page, but here's a little more information about the Experiment Month project: Experiment Month The Experiment Month initiative is a program designed to help philosophers conduct experimental studies. If you are interested...

Just a quick note to say that Josh May and Richard Holton have an exciting new experimental paper on intuitions about weakness of will (which I summarize here).

There is an on-line discussion over at On the Human about Patricia Churchland and Christopher Suhler's recent work on nonconscious control and agency. Several experimental philosophers have already joined the conversation, so hopefully some of you will follow suit! Here...

Blame in Action - How Moral Evaluation Bears on Intentionality Venue: University of Potsdam Dates: July 5-6, 2010 This conference brings together experimental philosophers and moral philosophers to improve our understanding of intentional action, moral responsibility, and their interrelationships. It...

Here. The article is written by a professional philosopher (Prof. Justin Smith, of Concordia University), and so it engages the Nichols & Knobe and Appiah volumes with a level of sophistication that substantially outstrips other popular media engagements with x-phi,...