#experimentalphilosophy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #experimentalphilosophy, aggregated by home.social.
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What if humans aren't the most intelligent form of life on this planet?
// Jonathon Keats – Experimental Philosopher, Artist & Writer, Smithsonian InstitutionJonathon Keats takes philosophical ideas and puts them into the world – as an experimental philosopher, artist and writer. He has screened travel documentaries for houseplants, appointed slime molds as visiting scholars, and built a clock that ticks to the growth of thousand-year-old trees.
// At #Waterkant26, Jonathon brings three projects: a panel on curiosity – how do you ask a truly good question? A workshop inviting participants to imagine beings that go beyond the human. And his latest project: a tidal clock connecting Kiel and San Francisco through the language of the ocean.
18 – 19 June 2026 // Waterkant Festival - MFG5 Kiel // GET YOUR TICKETS NOW:
https://www.talque.com/go/waterkant-festival-2026/acLVSX2j1VHLqMuRtTn0/shop#experimentalphilosophy #futuresthinking #curiosity #art #science #waterkant26 #SistersCity #kiel #sanfrancisco
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"a movement that is blurring the lines between philosophy and psychology. This new approach, called experimental philosophy, aims to apply the practical tools and findings of the cognitive sciences to philosophical problems"
https://thenewjournalatyale.com/2012/04/we-started-the-fire/
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There are three new calls on the X-Phi Blog: »6th European Experimental Philosophy Conference«, »Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Linguistic Justice«, and »The Armchair on Trial«. Read more at https://xphi.net! #philosophy #xphi #experimentalphilosophy
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🧵This week I'm posting about presentations from two cool events (over on Twitter): https://x.com/byrd_nick/status/1943219893291164057
What are the events?
(1) The 1st Experimental Argument Analysis workshop
(2) The 5th European #ExperimentalPhilosophy #Conference#cogSci #xPhi #Linguistics #Psychology #Logic #edu #teaching
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Pills often feature in thought experiments to eliminate the difficulty of one of the response options. Example: It's hard to [X] in reality, but suppose you could [X] by taking a pill. Would you take the pill?
I got curious about whether people find it so easy to take pills. Apparently not.
In this meta-analysis, #medication non-adeherence was more than 40%: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044987
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Mary's Cartesian Demon Room - #ExperimentalPhilosophy
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My colleague calls me on the phone. They ask whether I know which grade Student X got for their midterm exam. I say: "Yes I do! I'll look it up for you immediately."
Did I just contradict myself?
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Another study finds honesty is more than just truthfulness.
Makes sense: you can mislead or even conceal with only true information (e.g., if you do not include *all* the true information).
The final study of this paper confirms: the “communicative elements of honesty [include not just] truthful speech [but] not concealing or misrepresenting”.
https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231195355
#ethics #psychology #xPhi #experimentalPhilosophy #law #xJur #experimentalJurisprudence #moralPsych
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I prefer the #Fediverse to its alternatives, but I'd also like to see the alternatives adopt more of #Mastadon's positive, accessible, and federated culture.
So if you are a researcher that would like a #BlueSky invite, feel free to contact me (ideally with your edu email address) so I can send you a code.
byrdnick.com/contact
#DecisionScience #CognitiveScience #CognitivePsychology #BehavioralEconomics #ExperimentalPhilosophy #xPhi #bluesky_invite
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#AlfredMele - Big #Questions in #FreeWill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmScv7ut22U
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfMind #ExperimentalPhilosophy #Mind #Consciousness #Intentionality #Causality #Will #Dualism #Supernaturalism #Naturalism #Determinism #Theology #God #Religion #Neuroscience #Agency #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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Starting at 10:00 EST (16:00 CET) is the #ExperimentalPhilosophy session in the FREE, virtual #ISPSM conference in Room D.
Join us via #Webex: https://unito.webex.com/unito-en/j.php?MTID=m4a0b0e2c7b04eb64b7bf0ffe7e6571de
This xPhi session’s got lots of fun stuff! #AI, #science, #softwareDevelopment, #rationality (and probably more):
Here's the full program: https://www.neuralmechanisms.org/ispsm-conference.html?fbclid=IwAR2k9OcjKsBFaYHT2nCiEYvYZIumJQger8ciXkE2jY8_kdqCEnmCBf4tMi4
Thanks to the Neural Mechanisms Online team for showing us the gold standard in international conferencing!
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The "One, but not the same" results that we detected in English speakers (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01739-5) replicated 6 times in Lithuanian speakers (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105545).
When people read about morally altered people being "different, they [thought] the person [wa]s qualitatively transformed, but numerically intact."
#ExperimentalPhilosophy #xPhi #Philosophy #PhilMind #PersonalIdentity #QuantPsych #DecisionScience #CogSci #psychometrics #Linguistics #CrossCulturalResearch
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There's a #debate in #ExperimentalPhilosophy (#xPhi) about whether #intuitions about philosophical thought experiments are "stable" (vs. manipulable).
Some (e.g., @xphilosophy) seem convinced of stability—e.g., because some replications of instability results and new experiments find #pValues > 0.05.
Alexander & Weinberg express a different view (https://philpapers.org/rec/ALEPMP). I agree that the debate needs parties to agree on a smallest effect size of interest.
Page images attached.
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@alexbryant @philosophy also supervised an honours thesis that was early #ExperimentalPhilosophy of logic/language that made it into Mind & Language https://philpapers.org/rec/SERVLA