intuitions

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• The Empirical Epistemologist’s Challenge to Experimental Epistemology

  
  Experimental Philosophy — Authority: 109
  I’m doing some work on the role of experimental methods in epistemology, and am currently trying to work out how to think about one particular challenge to utilizing such methods, flowing from a fairly influential take on the role of epistemology. I would be very interested to hear how people think that the ...
  1 week ago

• In Search of Terrorists

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The conventional model of terrorism suggests shadowy recruiters are spread around the world in search of young men and women who can be radicalized. In one of the chapters in my upcoming book, I discuss the problem in conceiving of terrorist masterminds as telemarketers who reach out to many people in the hopes that a ...
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• Breast Cancer Screening Advice that Doesnt Make Sense

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  A few years ago, my family lost a friend who died from breast cancer at far too young an age. I also know someone who had breast cancer at a young age, but who has thrived with appropriate treatment. Why does one person die and another live? Whenever I think of these two friends, I wonder if the first woman could ...
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• Could Paris Hilton Ever Be Happy?

  
  Experimental Philosophy — Authority: 109
  Luke Misenheimer, Joshua Knobe and I have recently been doing some research on attributions of happiness (much like Dan Haybron and Sven Nyholm ). In particular, we suspected that there would be an evaluative component in peoples attributions of happiness that was totally absent from their attributions of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ad Laxus Fallacy: She drove you into the sand. That doesn’t mean she’s on solid ground

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  A Holiday gift for someone thoughtful in your life?  Consider the New York Times Best-selling graphic novel Logicomix .  It’s a beautiful story about the death of the 2,400-year-old dream of creating a system of logic that wasn’t founded on the shaky ground of intuitive assumptions. The central character is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ad Laxus Fallacy: They drove you into the sand, but that doesn’t mean theyre on solid ground

  
  Ambigamy — Authority: 91
  A Holiday gift for someone thoughtful in your life?  Consider the New York Times Best-selling graphic novel Logicomix .  It’s a beautiful story about the death of the 2,400-year-old dream of creating a system of logic that wasn’t founded on the shaky ground of intuitive assumptions. The central character is ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Folk Concept(s) of Happiness

  
  Experimental Philosophy — Authority: 109
  Ive finally written up a rough summary of some survey results Ive been collecting for several years now, posted at the link below. This has been pretty informal so far, and Id like to follow up with better studies using larger samples, as well as to address some questions not yet studied here. Youll see that my ...
  3 weeks ago

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