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Are Undergrads Good Samples for Experimental Philosophy?

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Clayton Littlejohn asks this question.

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Graduate Programs for X-phi

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This list of schools is for undergraduate students who are interested in experimental philosophy and want to pursue a graduate degree.

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X-Phi Data on Contrasts, Part Two Certain Doubts

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Jonathan Schaffer started getting into the X-phi game a while back. Here is a follow up. He has a draft of a paper that he posted a draft of, and he's looking for feedback.

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On objecting to “Experimental Philosophy”

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Ichikawa discusses the an issue with the introduction to the Experimental Philosophy volume by Knobe and Nichols.

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Ethicist's responsiveness to e-mails

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It turns out there is no statistically significant difference between ethicists, other philosophers, or non-philosophers in their responsiveness to students. This is taken as one method to see whether ethicists are any more ethical than other academics.

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Do Intuitions about Reference Really Vary across Cultures?

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Here is an interesting discussion from Experimental Philosophy of two conflicting results concerning whether or not native Cantonese speakers are descriptivist.

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Do You Know What You’re Doing?: follow-up

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John Doris' reply to all commenters...

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New On-Line Study: Philosophers Wanted

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...Leiter promoting a study by one of his students. The study is an attempt to examine the connection between personality traits and philosophical beliefs...

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The x-phi critique of exactly what?

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Nice post by Ichikawa raising some concerns about Weinberg's "How To Challenge Intuitions" paper.

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Experimental Philosophy: Willimson Excerpt

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A nice excerpt from a piece by Williamson's reply to Kornblithe in analysis. Might convince you to read the article. Also, potential for good comments.

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Certain Doubts X-Phi Data on Contrasts

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Jonathan Schaffer gives some experimental support to contrastivism.

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Email Makes Lying More Likely?

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Interesting article discussing a recent study. The results suggest that people are more likely to lie to people over email than face-to-face communication.

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Moral Sense Test

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Eric Schwitzgebel (UCR) and Fiery Cushman (Harvard) are conducting a moral sense test to test moral intuitions about hypothetical scenarios. It looks like they're looking for people with philosophy degrees (i.e., the sympoze user demographic)

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Experimental Philosophy and Meta-Epistemology

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Another contribution from the recent workshop on Experimental Philosophy in Cologne. Joachim Horvath explores the bearing of meta-epistemological commitments on the relevance of X-Phi for the methodology of epistemology.

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Some Hope for Intuitions

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A contribution from the recent workshop on Experimental Philosophy in Cologne. Thomas Grundmann defends intuition-based philosophy against Weinberg's charge of "hopelessness".

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Against Intuition - ChronicleReview.com

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Article about experimental philosophy

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PEA Soup: Experimental Metaethics

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From the post: Steve Campbell from Michigan kindly directed my attention to a new paper that uses the methods of experimental philosophy to investigate the objectivity question in metaethics. This paper by Geoffrey Goodwin and John Darley is entitled 'The Psychology of Metaethics: Exploring Objectivism' (downloadable from HERE). I have a couple of questions below but I think I need to say little first about the paper.

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Experimental Philosophy: Is Belief Required for Knowledge?

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Something can't be right here (either in the interpretation of the results, or the results, or in the conclusions that might be drawn from the interpretation of the results).

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Experimental Philosophy: End of (Philosophical) Innocence

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Eric from the Splintered Mind with an explanation of what he takes the consequences of experimental philosophy to be for the rest of philosophy. Also, read the comments.

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Experimental Psychologist Criticizes Survey Methods of X-Phi

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At the experimental philosophy blog, Brian Scholl, an experimental psychologist, has a brief note on why he thinks the survey works done so far by experimental philosophers (a) are not so different from traditional thought experiments and (b) do not accomplish the stated goals of experimental philosophy.

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