A few decades ago, it was pretty common to mush together priming effects and framing effects and see them as two closely connected parts of a single Bigger Truth about the human mind. Of course, everyone understood that the effects themselves were a bit different, but one common view was that they were providing evidence…
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Do People Think That Free Will Is Incompatible with Determinism?
Imagine a universe in which everything that happens is completely caused by the things that happened before. Suppose, for example, that Mia has a bagel for breakfast. Her act of having a bagel for breakfast would be caused by the way things were right before that, which would be caused by the way things were…
Call: “Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy”
The “Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy” series, published by Oxford University Press and edited by Ángel Pinillos, Joshua Knobe, and Shaun Nichols, is now calling for papers for its sixth volume. The series joins other successful series in the “Oxford Studies in…” collection, which bring together original articles on all aspects of their respective topics. “Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy” features…