Philosophical intuitions are surprisingly stable across both demographic groups and situations

J Knobe - Filozofia nauki, 2021 - ceeol.com
In the early years of experimental philosophy, a number of studies seemed to suggest that
people's philosophical intuitions were unstable. Some studies seemed to suggest that …

Quantifying proper nouns' influence on L2 English learners' reading fluency

C Nicklin, A Patterson, S McLean - Studies in Second Language …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Proper nouns constitute a lexical class with special properties and are thus treated
differently from other words by second language acquisition researchers. An assumption …

The influence of philosophical training on the evaluation of philosophical cases: a controlled longitudinal study

B Maćkiewicz, K Kuś, WM Hensel - Synthese, 2023 - Springer
According to the expertise defense, practitioners of the method of cases need not worry
about findings that ordinary people's philosophical intuitions depend on epistemically …

Experimental philosophy of language: proper names and predicates

E Machery - The Compact Compendium of Experimental …, 2023 - degruyter.com
One of the most successful research areas in experimental philosophy examines people's
judgments about semantic properties. This chapter reviews results of experimental …

Reference the untouchable. On the limits of revising concepts using the method of cases

K Sękowski - Synthese, 2022 - Springer
The paper investigates to what extent the method of cases can be interpreted as either a
descriptive or a normative enterprise. I demonstrate that although most instances of the …

Great minds do not think alike: Philosophers' views predicted by reflection, education, personality, and other demographic differences

N Byrd - Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Prior research found correlations between reflection test performance and philosophical
tendencies among laypeople. In two large studies (total N= 1299)—one pre-registered …

Western skeptic vs Indian realist. Cross-cultural differences in Zebra Case intuitions

K Sękowski, A Ziółkowski, M Tarnowski - Review of Philosophy and …, 2023 - Springer
The cross-cultural differences in epistemic intuitions reported by Weinberg, Nichols and
Stich (2001; hereafter: WNS) laid the ground for the negative program of experimental …

Culture and cognitive science

A De Block, D Kelly - 2022 - philpapers.org
Human behavior and thought often exhibit a familiar pattern of within group similarity and
between group difference. Many of these patterns are attributed to cultural differences. For …

Why variation matters to philosophy

E Machery - Res Philosophica, 2023 - pdcnet.org
Experimental philosophers often seem to ignore or downplay the significance of
demographic variation in philosophically relevant judgments. This article confirms this …

[图书][B] The referential mechanism of proper names: Cross-cultural investigations into referential intuitions

J Li - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Each of us bears a unique name given to us at birth. When people use your name, they
typically refer to you. But what is the linkage that ties a name to a person and hence allows it …