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Experimental philosophy: An interdisciplinary field that uses the collection of empirical data to shed light on philosophical issues.

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Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg@DailyNousEditorOct 23
Ask a group of people a philosophical question and it’s often the case that they'll give conflicting answers to it. We quite naturally interpret this as different people having different intuitions. But that's not the only available explanation... dailynous.com/2026/10/23/whe…

Where Intuitions Conflict - Daily Nous

If you ask a group of people a philosophical question or present them with a challenging thought experiment, it’s often the case that they will […]

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Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.
@briandavidearpOct 16
New preprint 🚨Love and Change - if the person you love and married undergoes major changes in their moral character, memories, or physical appearance, are you obligated to keep loving them and staying together? Led by Elze Mikalonyte researchgate.net/publication…
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The full paper is available at: nature.com/articles/s41562-0… But please feel free to write in with thoughts even if you haven't read the full paper

Asymmetrical genetic attributions for prosocial versus antisocial behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - Do people think that behaviour is due to genetics, regardless of whether it’s good or bad? Here Lebowitz et al. find that people think prosocial behaviour is more...

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There hasn't been enough attention to this amazing result, and I'd love to hear ideas about how to explain it Participants are given a story about a morally bad behavior that it is due to genetics. Then they are asked the simplest possible question: Is it due to genetics?
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In other words, the answer to the question is already given explicitly within the study materials. People are told that a bad thing is genetic and then asked whether it is genetic Yet, amazingly, many participants say "No"! They explicitly reject the whole premise
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Causal modeling fans! Tadeg Quilien has an amazing new app that implements a few different theories about how people make causal strength judgments. You specify a model, and it calculates what each theory predicts about people’s judgments
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The app is here: tadegquillien.shinyapps.io/c… And here is his blog post about how to use it: xphi.net/2026/10/10/a-new-r-… @TadegQuillien
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This new tool builds on important existing work by @davidbkinney @paul_henne @david_lagnado @maureengill_aca @tobigerstenberg @CarenMWalker and many others!
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I am still just SO excited that Felipe De Brigard got a MacArthur Genius Grant! He has done so much amazing work in experimental philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, and a million other fields, and it's absolutely wonderful to see him getting recognized like this
The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social@mitpressOct 3
We're thrilled to share that Felipe De Brigard has been named a 2026 MacArthur Genius Fellow for his work reshaping our understanding of the nature and function of memory. Felipe is the co-editor of "Neuroscience and Philosophy II,” publishing next month: bit.ly/4ABPYuF
A photo of Felipe De Brigard next to text that reads "2026 MacArthur Genius Fellow"

ALT A photo of Felipe De Brigard next to text that reads "2026 MacArthur Genius Fellow"

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Best way to learn about his extraordinary work is to check out his Google Scholar page: scholar.google.com/citations…

Felipe De Brigard

Professor, Duke University - Cited by 6,328 - Philosophy of Mind - Memory - Imagination - Counterfactual Thinking - Philosophy of Neuroscience

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There has been a huge amount of experimental philosophy research on the concept of KNOWLEDGE This research finds that the ordinary concept doesn’t work in anything like the way philosophers said it does A thread with some examples: 🧵
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Not only do philosophers attribute knowledge differently from ordinary folks, they attribute knowledge differently from all other academics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Expert or Esoteric? Philosophers Attribute Knowledge Differently Than All Other Academics

Academics across widely ranging disciplines all pursue knowledge, but they do so using vastly different methods. Do these academics therefore also have different ideas about when someone possesses...

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What we see with experimental studies on the concept of knowledge is very different from what we see with other concepts Just in this one specific case, philosophers seem to talking about something very complex that is wildly out of step with the (much simpler) ordinary concept
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There hasn’t been enough discussion in philosophy of this wonderful research by April Bailey (@ahbailey04) She provides a mountain of evidence for the claim that people see MEN as the prototype of the category of human beings researchgate.net/profile/Apr…
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