James Andow and Eugen Fischer have announced the first talks for this season’s “XPHI UK Work in Progress Workshop Series.” Talks will be held on Microsoft Teams. Anyone interested in joining can email james.andow@manchester.ac.uk. November 26, 16:00–18:00 (UTC±0) December 10, 16:00–18:00 (UTC±0) January 14, 16:00–18:00 (UTC±0)
Category: Ethics and Morals
Talk: “Philosophical Arguments Can Boost Charitable Giving” (Eric Schwitzgebel and Kirstan Brodie)
On Thursday, October 30, the first talk in the Experimental Philosophy Journal Series will take place on Zoom. Celso de Oliveira Vieira, Alex Wiegmann, and Rodrigo Díaz write: We are pleased to invite you to the first talk in the Experimental Philosophy Journal Series, the new journal dedicated to X-Phi. In this session, Eric Schwitzgebel…
Call: “Valence Asymmetries”
The Valence Asymmetries project, led by Isidora Stojanovic at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, is looking for expressions of interest from people who would like to join. The call reads:
Hot Off The Press: “Empirical Studies on Questions of Need-Based Distributive Justice”
In “Empirical Studies on Questions of Need-Based Distributive Justice” (the English translation of last year’s “Empirische Studien zu Fragen der Bedarfsgerechtigkeit”), I recap a series of vignette studies that examine the role that needs play in dealing with problems of distributive justice. As I summarised in last year’s post: Literature Bauer, Alexander Max, Frauke Meyer,…
Call: “Moral Epistemology and Social Progress”
Antonio Gaitán Torres and Hugo Viciana organize a workshop on “Moral Epistemology and Social Progress – Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives,” which will take place at the Universidad de Sevilla from November 4 to 5. Abstracts for presentations can be submitted until September 17. The call reads: This focused workshop explores the intersection of empirical research…
Call: “Laws Many Users”
Alex Davies and Nikolai Shurakov organize a conference on “Law’s Many Users – Legal Interpretation Within and Beyond Legal Institutions,” which will take place at the University of Tartu from November 12 to 14. Abstracts for presentations can be submitted until August 12. The call reads:
Conference: “Basel-Oxford-NUS BioXPhi Summit”
The 2025 “Basel-Oxford-NUS BioXPhi Summit,” organized by Tenzin Wangmo, Brian D. Earp, Carme Isern, Christian Rodriguez Perez, Emilian Mihailov, Ivar Rodriguez Hannikainen, and Kathryn Francis, will take place from June 26 to 27 at the University of Basel, Switzerland. The program consists of 15 talks and seven posters, framed by two keynotes. June 26, 8:30–17:30…
Talk: “Derogatory Speech – Conversations, Hearers, and Listeners” (Claire Horisk)
On Monday, March 10, from 14:30–16:00 (UTC+1), the “Slurring Terms Across Languages” (STAL) network will present Claire Horisk’s talk “Derogatory Speech – Conversations, Hearers, and Listeners” as part of the STAL seminar series. The abstract reads: In discussions of how to mitigate political and cultural polarization, we are often told that we should listen to…
Teaching Experimental Philosophy to Beginners (Part 4)
In a previous post, I wrote about a course (which I taught together with Stephan Kornmesser in the summer term of 2024) for master’s students who had no previous contact with X-Phi at all. After learning some methodological and statistical basics and conducting their own small replication of Knobe (2003), they had the opportunity to…
Teaching Experimental Philosophy to Beginners (Part 3)
In a previous post, I wrote about a course (which I taught together with Stephan Kornmesser in the summer term of 2024) for master’s students who had no previous contact with X-Phi at all. After learning some methodological and statistical basics and conducting their own small replication of Knobe (2003), they had the opportunity to…