Tag: experimental philosophy

journals

New Journal: Experimental Philosophy

December 11, 2025

A new peer-reviewed open-access journal, Experimental Philosophy, has been launched.
value of philosophy

Does Studying Philosophy Develop Special Skills That Improve One’s Intuitions?

October 3, 2023

A new study suggests the answer to that question is “no.” Rather, according to the study’s authors, what explains why the intuitions about particular…
methodology

A Plea for Synthetic Philosophy (guest post)

May 30, 2023

“There need not be strict disciplinary boundaries between philosophy and other disciplines.”
Research

The Development of Experimental Philosophy

January 24, 2023

A recent survey of publications in experimental philosophy provides a picture of the field’s growth and range.
philosophy

Philosophers, Concepts, and Cognitive Biases

February 24, 2022

“We found some evidence of differences in conceptual competence between philosophers and laypeople, and documented a difference in linguistic diet; but these differences did…
philosophy

What Predicts Professional Philosophers’ Views? (updated)

April 30, 2021

A new study looks at correlations between professional philosophers’ philosophical views and their psychological traits, religious beliefs, political views, demographic information, and other characteristics.
philosophy

Philosophical Intuitions Are Surprisingly Stable (guest post by Joshua Knobe)

August 10, 2020

There seems to be a very general pattern whereby the tensions in people’s intuitions tend to be surprisingly stable across both demographic groups and…
philosophy

Philosophical Intuitions and Demographic Differences

December 2, 2019

Philosophers are disagreeing over what lessons should be learned from the growing body of work on the interplay between demographics and philosophical intuitions.
Philosophical Resources

New Site for Experimental Philosophical Bioethics

August 13, 2019

BioXphi aims to be an online hub for experimental philosophical bioethics.
Awards Grants Honors

New Way Trolley Problem Shows We’re Awful

March 20, 2015

Tiffany Sun, a student at Rosyln High School in New York, was one of 40 finalists in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search with an…

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WiseGuy on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
of course.. they gave it to him and not me.
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Let’s stipulate that Dropbox genuinely has no ties to AI companies. What about using Gmail or OneDrive? I don’t see how one could consistently (e.g.) abjure using Gemini…
David Wallace on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
That’s my (4): no objection in principle but it is probably sensible to draw a bright line.
Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Surreptitiously
Michael on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Yes, memory is narrative storytelling using context triggered neurological networks. Freud speculated about memory traces, Friston called the Bayesian probability clouds.
Luca Barlassina on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
Amazing! Congrats!
Patrick Lin on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
I assume they'll be using the rigorous standard set by the US Supreme Court: "I'll know it when I see it."
Nicolas Delon on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
How do you get credit anonymously?
Meme on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
Still need someone to start it (I’m more of an “ideas guy who will take all the credit” myself).
Jukka on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
That's a laudable editorial practice. But AI & Society and a social contract between readers and journals: well, I turn to Jill; https://jilltxt.net/misaligned-citations-and-llm-generated-scientific-fraud/
Dee on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
And if evidence of bad behavior from Dropbox comes to light, I'll trust them less than I do at the moment. Many of us have used Dropbox for…
Kate on AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies
Just on point 2. I don't really think that editors are asking for reviewers to know what *you* think of it in a way that excludes what you…
Sander Verhaegh on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thanks Conner, interesting suggestion! I guess the list of philosophers targeted by Red hunters is too short to draw any firm conclusions. But even this short list does…
Protrepticus on New Study on AI’s Philosophical Skills
“What exactly do you mean by…?” There is a potential demarcation problem here. Before asking whether AI can ‘do philosophy’, we need some account of what counts as…
Conner Schultz on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thanks, Sander—this was an interesting read, and I appreciate you bringing (much needed) archival data to bear on this debate. Some aspects of the McCarthyist thesis have long…