Fourth Workshop 12-13 Sept '13

4th Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK, 12-13 September 2013, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol. This is a BIRTHA conference. Main topic: philosophy of mind and action.

A provisional programme can be downloaded here.

We are grateful for the generous support of the University of Bristol Philosophy Department, a Mind Association Major Conference Grant, Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts, The Analysis Trust, and the University of Bristol Centre for Science and Philosophy.

Keynote Talks:

Natalie Gold (KCL)

Moral judgments and moral behaviour in hypothetical and real-life trolley problems

James Moore (Goldsmiths)

Was that me? Investigating the sense of agency in both health and disease

Regina Rini (Oxford)

Experiments and Two Conceptions of Philosophy

Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside)

The Experience of Reading

List of Confirmed Papers:

James Beebe (Buffalo) & Ryan Undercoffer (Syracuse)

Individual and Cross-Cultural Differences in Semantic Intuitions: New Experimental Findings

Roland Bluhm (TU Dortmund)

Linguistic Text Corpora in Conceptual Analysis: An Introduction of a (Partly) Empirical Method to Philosophy

Gunnar Björnsson (Umeå)

Digging Deeper: Problems for Sripada’s Deep Self Account of Manipulation Worries

Florian Cova (Geneva), Paul Egré & Aurélien Nioche (Jean Nicod)

Reactive attitudes and ascriptions of moral responsibility: an empirical investigation

Nora Heinzelmann (Cambridge)

Self-control and risk-aversion

Claire Hewson (Open University)

What can measuring folk intuitions really tell us? An illustrative study of the folk concept of belief, and some methodological reflections and suggestions for the future. (slides here)

Jonathan Livengood and Zachary Horne (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Ordering Effects, Evidence Effects, and the Specter of Global Skepticism

Albert Newen, Thomas Dratsch, Leon de Bruin, Anika Fiebich, Ahmad Al-Issa and Gary Bente (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Blaming the leader and praising the follower: A Cross-Cultural Study concerning moral responsibility in Germany and United Arabic Emirates

Katarzyna Paprzycka, Michał Barcz, Leon Ciechanowski, Agnieszka Dębska, Kamil Hendzel, Kinga Jęczmińska, Natalia Karczewska, Małgorzata Koronkiewicz and Adrian Ziółkowski (Warsaw)

An Ambiguity of Intentional Action. Experimental Philosophy on ‘Anscombe’s Thesis’.

Pendaran Roberts (Nottingham), James Andow (Nottingham) and Kelly Schmidtke (Warwick)

Colour Relationalism and the Real Deliverances of Introspection

Joshua Shepherd (Oxford)

Consciousness and Free Will: Taking the Folk Seriously

Shun Tsugita (Tokyo), Yu Izumi (Maryland) and Masaharu Mizumoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Knowing How Without Ability

Tomasz Wysocki and Artur Tanona (Washington St. Louis)

Intuition and argumentation