Hosted by the Metro Experimental Research Group

(MERG)

 

MERG will also host a special experimental philosophy lab meeting on April 30th from 1-5 pm at CUNY Graduate Center rm 205.

 

Food, lodging, and travel information about this conference is available here.

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Experimental Philosophy Colloquium (10 am—12 pm)
Submitted Presentations:

“Experimental Philosophy and the Loop Case”

S. Matthew Liao (NYU), Alex Wiegmann (Gottingen), Joshua Alexander (Siena College), Gerard Vong (Oxford University)

“Moral Objectivism Across the Life Span”

James R. Beebe & David Sackris (U. of Buffalo)

“Moral Disenchantment and the Reactive Attitudes Debate”

Jeremy Evans (U. of Texas)

“Typicality and Causal Attributions”

Jonathan Livengood & Justin Sytsma  (U. of Pittsburgh)

“Using Empirical Data of Kiva Microfinance Loans to Inform Ethical Principles of Distribution”

Nathan Lubchenco (Carnegie Mellon U.)

“Effects of Religion on Moral Appraisal”

Ryan Nichols (Cal State Fullerton)

 

 

“Fine-Grained Assimilation of Tools in the Body Schema:  An Experiment in the Philosophy of Perception”

J. Brendan Ritchie, Jeremy Turret, Thomas Carlson (U. of Maryland), Ryota Kanai (UCL)

“Clarifying Reference and Evaluation”

David Rose & David Danks (Carnegie Mellon U.)

“Diminishing the Knobe Effect, to Good Effect: The Intentionality of Morally Bad Side Effect Actions”

Joshua Shepherd (Florida State University)

“Disgust as a Hedonic Experience”

Nina Strohminger (University of Michigan)

“On Intuitional Stability: The Clear, the Strong, and the Paradigmatic ”

Jen Wright (College of Charleston)

“Faith and justice – an experimental approach in philosophy of religion”

Tomek Wysocki & Dominic Dziedzic (Wroclaw U)