A one-day workshop on Experimental Philosophy took place on Tuesday, 13 June 2017 at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
Over the last two decades, philosophers have taken an increasing interest in experimental approaches to philosophical questions. Experimental philosophers use tools from a variety of empirical sciences, such as psychology, sociology, linguistics, and neurosciences, to engage with questions as diverse as:
· How do people make moral judgments?
· What factors influence people’s moral intuitions?
· How robust are moral intuitions?
· What is justice?
· How to people conceive of causal relations in the world?
· What role do causal judgments play for the attribution of moral responsibility?
· Are philosophers the right people to actually give answers to all these questions?
In this workshop, we would like to address these issues. Just in the spirit of experimental philosophy, we believe that the best progress is made by joining forces from different disciplines. We therefore invited seven speakers from philosophy, psychology, and law.
Keynote speaker: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
Neele Engelmann (University of Goettingen)
Joachim Horvath (University of Cologne)
Lara Kirfel (University College London)
Stefan Magen (Ruhr University Bochum)
Albert Newen (Ruhr University Bochum)
Karolina Prochownik (Jagiellonian University Krakow)
Alex Wiegmann (University of Goettingen)
Pascale Willemsen (Ruhr University Bochum)
When: Tuesday, June 13th
Start: 09:15 End: 18:15
Where: Ruhr University Bochum, Room: FNO 01/171
Organizers: Pascale Willemsen & Albert Newen
For further information and updates on the program, please check: https://www.rub.de/philosophy/Exp_Phi_2017
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