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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 29d

TIRAMISU - WE ARE SO BACK!

Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Sep 6

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky.

@xphijournal.bsky.social

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Sep 1

An awesome conference online organized by the moral psychology research group! With the first Stich Award to honor my mentor Steve Stich. Paul bloom is the awardee.

MPRG - Online Events

An Online Gathering for Moral Psychology -- Fall 2025* Friday, November 7th: 4:00pm to 7:00pm (EST) Saturday, November 8th: 11:00am to 3:15pm (EST)

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Aug 27

Moreover, lie and falsity attributions correlated strongly in our between-subjects design. In a follow-up experiment (in only three countries), we found this strong correlation also with a within-subject design design. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Aug 27

In one condition, we asked whether the speaker lied, in another whether what s/he said was true or false. Although DIs can be considered borderline cases (true on the explicit level, false on the implicit level), we found a high degree of similarity between the ten countries.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Aug 27

In our main experiment, we presented participants from ten countries (Chile, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, UK, US) with ten cases of deceptive implicatures (DIs). DIs are literally true but can nevertheless trick the hearer into a false belief.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨Publication Alert🚨
“Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?”

5 years in the making
~ 5000 participants
10 countries
6 languages

Forthcoming in American Psychologist
With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr.

Short thread and preprint below

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Aug 25

atest papers: Somogy Varga, Andrew J. Latham & Edouard Machery investigate the influence of evaluative judgments, specifically regarding an individual’s moral character, on judgments of health and disease in this #openaccess paper

The Wicked and the Ill

This study investigates the influence of evaluative judgments, specifically regarding an individual’s moral character, on judgments of health and disease. Though it might seem that judgments of hea...

doi.org

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Aug 8

Looks like a great (and free) introduction to philosophy!

philpapers.org/rec/HORAPA-2

Joachim Horvath, Steffen Koch & Michael G. Titelbaum (eds.), Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Primer and Guide - PhilPapers

Forthcoming guide with brief introductions on methods in analytic philosophy by experts on the relevant topics. With sections on: formal methods, argumentation, inferential methods, thought experiment...

philpapers.org

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Aug 6

Happy to have played a small role in this project (which will be continued)

Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · Aug 6

1/ I'm excited to share our new open‑access paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (with Leda Berio, Benedict Kenyah‑Damptey, Steffen Koch & Alex Wiegmann). Part of an ongoing project in comparative philosophy of race, exploring the peculiar & often fraught dynamics of race talk in Europe.

Folk Concepts of Race, Cross-culturally

The investigation of folk concepts of race has been central to many theoretical and experimental contributions in recent decades; however, most of these contributions have been centred around the N...

www.tandfonline.com

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Jun 18

and several keywords to describe your research interest to us. After we check it, we will add you to the system."

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Jun 18

Got a shameless review invitation today:
"As the reviewer, you should hold a PhD degree and publish 3-5 papers in the field of the manuscript. If you meet the requirements and would like to review this manuscript within 1 week, please send a short CV [1/2]

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Jun 17

Want to try out an agent AI (can click on things, fill out forms, collect info from websites and much more), here you get 500 free credits for ManusAI (and me, too. Link below) manus.im/invitation/1...

Manus

Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.

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stephen @stephanoplis.bsky.social · Jun 11

I’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104

Postdoctoral Scholar in Social/Personality Psychology

University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.ucr.edu

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · May 31

Randomly discovered that I have a signed book by Daniel Dennett 🤯 (the book was left, among others, in the office of a former colleague)

Signed book page by Daniel Dennett. Title of the book: breaking the spell.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · May 20

We are very grateful to the “Fachinformationsdienst Philosophie” who provides the hosting environment and helps to get the whole thing starting. We hope this and similar initiatives will become popular soon.

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · May 20

2. Experimental philosophers often have to compromise: Publishing in empirical journal often means to cut the philosophical aspects, while publishing in philosophy often comes with cuts regarding the empirical aspects

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · May 20

Two points of our motivation:
1. Reclaiming the means of production 😉 (scientists doing the work, whereas publishers making the money by charging the people whose taxes are used to pay the scientists does not seem right)

Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · May 20

🔥Exciting news in experimental philosophy🔥
Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”.
It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles.

Editors and Editorial Board below.

More information coming soon...

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · May 20

Editors:
Ivar Hannikainen
Alex Wiegmann
Pascale Willemsen

Editorial Board:
A. Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social
J. Horvath
J. Knobe @xphilosopher.bsky.social
E. Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social
I. Stojanovic @isidorastojanovic.bsky.social
J. Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · May 20

🔥Exciting news in experimental philosophy🔥
Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”.
It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles.

Editors and Editorial Board below.

More information coming soon...

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Apr 25

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Scientists for Future 🇩🇪 (S4F) @de.scientists4future.org · Mar 12

Wissenschaftler:innen fordern mehr Klima-Engagement von Politik - noch bis Donnerstag 10 Uhr mitzeichnen! de.scientists4future.org/unterschrift...

Unterschriftenaktion: Wissenschaftler:innen fordern mehr Klimaengagement von Politik - S4F Deutschland

Noch bis Donnerstag Mittag können Wissenschaftler:innen auf der Webseite der Universität Bayreuth einen Appell unterzeichnen, der auf Initiative der Scientists for Future Bayreuth in Zusammenarbeit mi...

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Mar 8

Omg, I feel you, 100%!

academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities

You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Mar 7

Congrats! Just curious: couldn't you intervene at proof stage (regarding the tables)?

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Mar 3

Meine Intuition: "eigentlich" hast du recht, aber Leute haben das so häufig schludrig gebraucht, dass sich solche Sätze wie meiner nicht mehr komisch anhören...

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