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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 5d

Feels like a natural experimental philosophy of medicine project: is “addictive” an inherently normative term? (My guess: yes.)

Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 5d

I see talk about things being "designed to be addictive" (like cigarettes, social media, online sports betting, etc.)

Is there a scientific distinction between "designed to be addictive" and "designed to get you to use them more"? Or are these just synonyms?

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 7d

This free online event is TOMORROW

The goal is to bring together two communities of researchers – folks in experimental pragmatics and folks in experimental philosophy

Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · Aug 28

XPrag Meets X-Phi

An online event bringing together two research communities: experimental pragmatics and experimental philosophy

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 8d

This is a fair point, thanks!

A key question now will be about its implications. If our goal is just to use intuitions as a tool to find the truth about some question, then this issue might not seem relevant, but if we are concerned with something more epistemic, then perhaps it is very irrelevant

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 8d

It seems like you are thinking that even though we already know that a substantial proportion of people are giving the wrong answer, it's still possible that there are truth-seeking or truth-sensitive

Is that correct?

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 8d

Now consider the further question as to whether beliefs about whether p or not-p are correlated with personality traits

Given that we already know that a substantial proportion of people are giving the wrong answer, why do we also need to know the answer to this further question?

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 8d

This sounds promising. If you have a moment, I'd love to continue the discussion one more round so that I can be sure I understand

Consider a case in which 60% of people say that p and 40% say that not-p. Just from this, we can already know that at least 40% are saying something incorrect

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 8d

This is a good point. One could say that if intuitions turn out *not* to be correlated with personality, then:

(a) the mere fact that there are split intuitions already shows that they are unreliable at this time

but:

(b) there is no obstacle to reaching agreement at a later time

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 8d

Just from that we ALREADY know that no more than 60% of responses can be correct

Why would it matter whether we also discover that responses are correlated with personality traits?

(I am very open to hearing arguments against my view! Please do reply if you have further thoughts)

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t understand why one would think we are getting evidence against the reliability of intuitions when we find correlations between intuitions and personality traits

Suppose we run a study and find that 60% or people give one response, 40% give the opposite response…

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existwell @existwell.bsky.social · 8d

New in Philosophical Psychology: Derek Anderson & I review Feltz & Cokely’s Diversity and Disagreement (OUP, 2024). We applaud their empirical rigor linking personality & philosophical views, but question their (to our minds) overly hasty and sweeping philosophical conclusions.🧵

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Marlene Berke @marleneberke.bsky.social · 9d

Psychophysics meets moral psych! In the best possible way!

I worry what this means for clinical research and patient reported outcomes, which often measure things like pain on a very simple 1-10 scale, often without clear anchoring.

Such important work by
@vladchituc.bsky.social!

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 11d

Could you say a little bit more about why?

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 11d

This work is closely related with the idea of resource rationality in cognitive science

The core thought is that we cannot possibly think about everything, so we need concepts that help focus our attention on the things that are worth thinking about

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 11d

Mikayla Kelley has an important new paper on why human beings even have a concept of intentional action

The key question: What does this concept do in our lives?

Her answer: Since we can't possibly evaluate all actions, it helps us choose which ones to evaluate

philpapers.org/rec/KELTNF-3

Mikayla Kelley, The Normative Function of Intentional Action - PhilPapers

This essay identifies a normative function of the concept of intentional action. Specifically, I argue that the concept of intentional action functions to focus our evaluative concern on some doings r...

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 11d

Oddly enough, there actually is experimental philosophy research on this

People with training in philosophy have significantly less visual imagery than non-philosophers do

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 14d

This explanation makes sense, but another one would be this:

1. People think that whatever draws you to the right decision - the one that is really best - is the true self.

2. If your reasoning favors X over Y, you tend to think that X is a better decision than Y

Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 14d

This isn’t my paper, but I would love to discuss it with you

They are saying that people tend to to see intuition as more the true self than reasoning. Do you think that maybe that’s wrong?

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 14d

Ha! I wonder if maybe people show that asymmetry more generally. I do sort of feel it in myself

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 14d

There’s so much more in this paper — about how this relates to which choice people really think is the better one, how they rationalize their judgements, and so forth

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 14d

New paper by
@danielchiacchia.bsky.social, George Newman & Rachel Ruttan finds:

Other things being equal, people tend to see System 1 as the true self

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 14d

People sometimes face a conflict between intuition (system 1) and reasoning (system 2)

In cases like these, which will be seen as the person’s true self?

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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 16d

💖This paper has been ~11 years in the making - and probably my favorite project of all time. Thrilled to see it in @pnas.org! I'm so lucky that Zach decided to do a second PhD and join my lab @psychillinois.bsky.social back in 2014 - a fabulous scientist & human being! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation

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Izabela Skoczeń @izaskoczen.bsky.social · 22d

The fabulous @jrabanos.bsky.social and @BojanSpaic discussed experimental jurisprudence with me in their awesome podcast! If you want to know why experimental jurisprudence is not like theoretical physics, or what does lying and reasonableness have in common, check it out!

Julieta Rabanos @jrabanos.bsky.social · 22d

Ep. #10 of Heavily Accented Philosophy of Law Podcast is here!

In this episode, we delve with Iza Skoczeń (@izaskoczen.bsky.social - Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy) into the topic of experimental jurisprudence.

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Episode 10 - Experimental Jurisprudence (ft. Izabela Skoczeń) by Heavily Accented Philosophy of Law

In this episode, we delve into the debate about experimental jurisprudence (also known as xJur). What is exactly “experimental jurisprudence”? What is in turn “experimental philosophy”? What are the m...

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 21d

One common view in moral psychology is “the primacy of the moral” - the view that people think your moral traits are what’s most fundamental about you

These new studies challenge that view, suggesting that people sometimes see artistic creation as just as fundamental as morality

ana gantman @anagantman.bsky.social · 23d

you're having a sliding doors moment--you can either become a great artist or a great philanthropist. what path will make you feel like you've found your true self? @jowylie.bsky.social & @mattlindauer.bsky.social and i find that arts provide a unique one static1.squarespace.com/static/679ee...

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Julieta Rabanos @jrabanos.bsky.social · 22d

Ep. #10 of Heavily Accented Philosophy of Law Podcast is here!

In this episode, we delve with Iza Skoczeń (@izaskoczen.bsky.social - Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy) into the topic of experimental jurisprudence.

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Episode 10 - Experimental Jurisprudence (ft. Izabela Skoczeń) by Heavily Accented Philosophy of Law

In this episode, we delve into the debate about experimental jurisprudence (also known as xJur). What is exactly “experimental jurisprudence”? What is in turn “experimental philosophy”? What are the m...

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Matt Lindauer @mattlindauer.bsky.social · 23d

New paper with @jowylie.bsky.social and @anagantman.bsky.social on art, morality, and the true self, forthcoming in Cognition! #philsky #psysky

ana gantman @anagantman.bsky.social · 23d

you're having a sliding doors moment--you can either become a great artist or a great philanthropist. what path will make you feel like you've found your true self? @jowylie.bsky.social & @mattlindauer.bsky.social and i find that arts provide a unique one static1.squarespace.com/static/679ee...

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