SPP Workshop on Experimental Philosophy

The deadline for submissions to the next meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) is February 1. It’s always a great conference.  It is in Philadelphia (U Penn) June 26-29. And there is a bonus this year, a pre-conference workshop on experimental philosophy that has an impressive line-up of presenters from various disciplines (see below). The workshop starts in the afternoon of June 25 and continues the morning of June 26. Everyone is invited to the workshop for one or both days (there will probably be a $10 registration fee set up at the SPP website).

In the workshop we will present and discuss a variety of methodologies and approaches to doing experimental philosophy, as well as some new results, and debate the goals and methods of this emerging field. It should be informative and fun!

Pre-SPP Workshop on Experimental Philosophy (tentative schedule)

Wed., June 25, 1:30-6:30pm

Chair: Thomas Nadelhoffer
1:30-2:00  Shaun Nichols, Title TBA
2:00-2:30  Bertram Malle, Title TBA
2:30-3:00  John Mikhail, Intuitions of Negligence
3:00-3:30  Jonathan Baron, Moral Intuitions vs. Law and Economics
3:30-4:00  Liane Young, The Guilty Mind: A cognitive neuroscience approach to theory of mind and moral judgment
4:00-4:30  Catch up and Coffee
4:30-5:00  Eric Schwitzgebel, Introspection and Experiment
5:00-5:30  Brian Scholl, Two Kinds of Experimental Philosophy, and their Methodological Dangers
5:30-6:00  Ron Mallon, Title TBA
6:00-6:30  Tania Lombrozo, Title TBA

Thursday, June 26, 9:00-12:00am

Chair: Eddy Nahmias
9:00-9:15  Eddy Nahmias, A Brief Introduction to Experimental Philosophy
9:15-9:55  Joshua Knobe and Edouard Machery, Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness
9:55-10:40  Ernest Sosa, Some critiques of experimental philosophy
10:40-11:10  Jonathan Weinberg, Defending experimental philosophy
11:10-12:00 Panel Discussion Q&A with Sosa, Weinberg, Knobe, Machery, Nichols, and Nadelhoffer