Experimental philosophy is the name for a recent movement whose participants use the methods of experimental psychology to probe the way people make judgments that bear on debates in philosophy.
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As it's growing closer to the time when students are applying to philosophy graduate schools, I thought some of the readers might be interested in this list of x-phi friendly graduate programs. The schools listed are an attempt to represent the...
Experimental philosopher extraordinaire Mark Phelan is organizing a series of experimental philosophy 'lab meetings' for students and faculty in the New York area.
The plan is for people from New York area institutions to have a chance to present...
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Bertil just sent me this paper on people's intuitions about meeting needs. I think the methodology should be of interest even to those who are not interested in distributive justice or political philosophy. He says it is posted at Equality...
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Eric Uhlmann, David Tannenbaum, Peter Ditto and I have just published an empirical paper in Judgment and Decison Making on the motivated use of moral principles (157 kb pdf download can be found here or this paper and others of ours at...
In the event that some of you missed the following two op-eds by David Brooks in The New York Times, I thought I would pass them along: (a) "The Young and the Neuro," and (b) "Where the Wild Things Are."
