Third Workshop (Sept 2012)

Our third workshop was held 8-9^th September 2012 in Nottingham. The title was 'Intuitions, Experiments and Philosophy'. The speakers included Simone Schnall (Cambridge), Shaun Nichols (Arizona) and Jessica Brown (St Andrews).

For further details, including a full programme and online registration, go to the conference webpage: www.nottingham.ac.uk/philosophy/research/conferences/workshop-intuitions-experimentsandphilosophy.aspx.

For a programme, click here.

For a list of abstracts, click here.

Presentations included:*

• Jessica Brown (Arché, St Andrews), X-phi and epistemic norms
• Shaun Nichols (Philosophy, Arizona), Two Senses of Self
• Simone Schnall (Psychology, Cambridge), Embodied Morality
• James Andow (Nottingham),‘Intuition’ Exploded, but Where?
• Martin Bruder (Konstanz) & Attila Tanyi (Konstanz), Overdemanding Consequentialism? An Experimental Approach
• Hoi-yee Chan & Max Deutsch (Hong Kong) Incompatibilists about what?
• Florian Cova (Geneva), I couldn’t have done otherwise
• Jeremy Goodman (Oxford), Intuition and Perceiving Reasons
• Ivar Hannikainen (Sheffield), Fiery Cushman & Ryan Miller (Brown), Agent and patient foci in third-party moral evaluation
• Andreas Bunge, Alexander Skulmowski, Nicole Troxler, Bret Ronald Cohen, Luca Pogoda, Barbara Kreilkamp (Osnabrück), The Folk Concept of Intentionality: Surveying Contexts and Explanations
• Bence Nanay (Antwerp & Cambridge), Between actions and mere bodily movements: the gray zone of action attributions
• Gabriela Pavarini (Cambridge), Débora de Hollanda Souza (Federal University of Sao Carlos) & Helena Águeda Marujo (Technical University of Lisbon), What’s on God’s mind? Attributions of Divine Intent to Life Experiences
• Johnnie Pedersen (UC Davis), Calibrating Cummins

Posters presentations included:

• Karolina Krzyżanowska, Sylvia Wenmackers & Igor Douven (Groningen), What inferential conditionals can reveal about epistemic modals. An experimental study of evidentiality
• Hossein Dabbagh (Reading), Empirical Moral Psychology meets Moderate Moral Intuitionism
• Leandro De Brasi (KCL), Craig-Style Epistemology and the Role of Intuitions in Epistemological Theorizing
• Edward Jarvis, Testing for objectivism: issues to consider
• David Moss (UEA), ‘Qualit(ative) not Quantit(ative)': Experimental Philosophy, Meta-ethics and Methodology
• Pendaran Roberts & Kelly Schmidtcke (Nottingham), In defense of Incompatibility, Objectivism, and Veridicality about Color
• Takayuki Suzuki, Koji Tsuchiya & Makoto Suzuki (Nanzan), Free Will is Simple, but Moral Responsibility is Complicated (or so it seems)

Conference Organisers: James Andow (Nottingham), Bryony Pierce (Bristol), and Robin Scaife (Sheffield)

*A further scheduled presentation by, Aaron Meskin (Leeds) & Shen-yi Liao (Kansas State) on Aesthetic Adjectives, was unfortunately cancelled.