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		<title>CFP: Experiments on Ethical Dilemmas</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2011/10/11/cfp-experiments-on-ethical-dilemmas/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2011/10/11/cfp-experiments-on-ethical-dilemmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3rd &#8211; 4th May 2012 Institute of Philosophy, London, UK Confirmed speakers: Fiery Cushman, Psychology, Brown University, USA Adam Feltz, Philosophy, Schreiner University, USA Urs Fischbacher, Economics, University of Konstanz, Germany Natalie Gold, Philosophy, King’s College London, UK Shaun Nichols, Philosophy, University of Arizona Briony Pulford, Psychology, University of Leicester, UK This is an end-of-project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nudge, nudge. Know what I mean?</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2011/07/20/nudge-nudge-know-what-i-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2011/07/20/nudge-nudge-know-what-i-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applied Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow philosophers will no doubt be familiar with the curious book, Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. The book defends &#8220;libertarian paternalism&#8221; and a view of behavioural economics. While I have not been convinced by its arguments, it is a good read and I&#8217;ve half expected Nudge to be the subject of at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomson&#8217;s Loop Case and Order Effect</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2011/06/06/thomsons-loop-case-and-order-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2011/06/06/thomsons-loop-case-and-order-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experimental Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Putting the Trolley in Order: Experimental Philosophy and the Loop Case&#8221; (forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology), Alex Wiegmann, Joshua Alexander and Gerard Vong and I applied the methods of experimental philosophy to Judith Jarvis Thomson’s famous Loop Case. As the readers will know, Thomson used the Loop Case to cast doubt on the intuitively plausible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funding Opportunity: New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Character</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2011/03/02/funding-opportunity-new-frontiers-in-the-philosophy-of-character/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2011/03/02/funding-opportunity-new-frontiers-in-the-philosophy-of-character/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Character Project at Wake Forest University is very excited to launch its funding competition entitled &#8220;New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Character.&#8221; This $300,000 RFP is aimed at work in philosophy on the topic of character, and proposals can request between $40,000 and $100,000 for projects not to exceed one year in duration. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFP: Morality and the Cognitive Sciences</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2011/01/18/cfp-morality-and-the-cognitive-sciences/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2011/01/18/cfp-morality-and-the-cognitive-sciences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[7th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication 6-8 May 2011, Riga, Latvia DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 6 FEBRUARY 2011. INVITED ORGANIZERS: Michael Bishop (Florida State University), Stephen Stich (Rutgers University) INVITED SPEAKERS include: Michael Bishop (Florida State University) Luc Faucher (Université du Québec a Montréal) Joshua Knobe (Yale University) Edouard Machery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFP: Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/10/03/cfp-southern-society-for-philosophy-and-psychology/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/10/03/cfp-southern-society-for-philosophy-and-psychology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[103rd Annual Meeting of The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology New Orleans, Louisiana March 10-12, 2011 The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology invites submission of papers for its annual meeting March 10-12, 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The submission deadline is November 1, 2010. Founded in 1904, SSPP promotes philosophy and psychology by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grant Opportunities at the Character Project</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/07/19/grant-opportunities-at-the-character-project/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/07/19/grant-opportunities-at-the-character-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Christian Miller (Wake Forest) and his colleagues have recently been awarded a $3.67 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for The Character Project, an exploration of the nature of character. Christian asked me to let you know that $2 million will soon be devoted to three separate funding competitions, one of which will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth in Cultural Relativism</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/04/25/the-truth-in-cultural-relativism/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/04/25/the-truth-in-cultural-relativism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antti Kauppinen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do moral judgments form a psychological natural kind? Lately, Stephen Stich and his colleagues have been arguing on the basis of empirical evidence that the features psychologists have identified as key to moral judgment do not, as a matter of fact, cluster together in a lawlike fashion. In particular, they argue that harm attributions do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop on Experimental Philosophy and Metaethics</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/04/17/workshop-on-experimental-philosophy-and-metaethics/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/04/17/workshop-on-experimental-philosophy-and-metaethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: May 1, 2010 Time: 10am to 5pm Location: NYU Silver Center, Room 207 Hosted by the Metro Experimental Research Group (MERG) (All details available at: http://www.yale.edu/cogsci/metaxphi.htm) A series of recent experimental studies have examined people&#8217;s intuitions about metaethical issues. Participants in this workshop will discuss the implications of these studies both for questions about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuum Ethics book series</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/11/14/continuum-ethics-book-series/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/11/14/continuum-ethics-book-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom Brooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applied Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Free Will]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Simon Kirchin's Posts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuum Ethics A series of books exploring key topics in contemporary ethics and moral philosophy. Continuum Ethics presents a series of books that will bridge the gap between new research work and undergraduate textbooks. They will provide close examination of key concepts in contemporary moral philosophy. Aimed largely at upper-level undergraduates and research students, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sentimentalism and Moral Grammar</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/10/05/sentimentalism-and-moral-grammar/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/10/05/sentimentalism-and-moral-grammar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antti Kauppinen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post, all too long and speculative, I will examine how a sentimentalist theory of moral thinking could exploit and improve recently popular theories of universal moral grammar, developed by John Mikhail, Susan Dwyer, Marc Hauser’s group, Gilbert Harman and Erica Roedder, and others. I’ll be drawing mostly on Mikhail’s 2009 ‘Moral Grammar and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experimental Philosophy: NEH Summer Institute</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/01/13/experimental-philosophy-neh-summer-institute/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/01/13/experimental-philosophy-neh-summer-institute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experimental Philosophy is a new movement that uses experiments to address traditional philosophical questions. Although the movement is only a few years old, it has attracted prolific practitioners as well as ardent critics. (For more about Experimental Philosophy, see the recent article in the New York Times or the ongoing discussion at the Experimental Philosophy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop on Rational Choice and Moral Decision Making</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/10/23/workshop-on-rational-choice-and-moral-decision-making/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/10/23/workshop-on-rational-choice-and-moral-decision-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an upcoming workshop entitled &#8220;The Economy of the Soul: Rational Choice and Moral Decision-Making,&#8221; which is sponsored by the British Academy and the LSE Choice Group, and co-sponsored by the UCL Ethics of Risk Project, funded by the AHRC. The location for registration, coffee and all talks is now: New Academic Building (NAB) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFP: Philosophical Methodology Conference at Arché</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/10/23/cfp-philosophical-methodology-conference-at-arche/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/10/23/cfp-philosophical-methodology-conference-at-arche/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This looks like a fantastic conference especially for those who are interested in intuitions and thought experiments. The AHRC Project on ‘Intuitions and Methodology Project’ at the Arché Philosophical Research Centre is hosting a conference on Philosophical Methodology, 25-27 April, 2009, at the University of St. Andrews. Invited keynote speakers: David Chalmers (Australian National University) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Moral Sense Test for Philosophers</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/10/14/the-moral-sense-test-for-philosophers/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/10/14/the-moral-sense-test-for-philosophers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Levy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experimental Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neil Levy's Posts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you will be familiar with the Moral Sense Test, which has produced some valuable data on ordinary people&#8217;s intuitions about trolley cases and related dilemmas. Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher of mind (who does fascinating work on the unreliability of first person judgments) and Fiery Cushman, from Marc Hauser&#8217;s lab at Harvard, have now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appiah’s Experiments in Ethics: Chapter 5</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/04/28/appiah%e2%80%99s-experiments-in-ethics-chapter-5/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/04/28/appiah%e2%80%99s-experiments-in-ethics-chapter-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Kahane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Towards the end of the chapter Appiah remarks that the greatest works in ethics exhibit a deep, irrepressible heterogeneity, heterogeneity that reflects a richness and complexity of the ethical life he believes that many moral philosophers overlook in their quest for neat (even: intricate) theories. This last chapter is certainly heterogeneous: starting with remarks on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appiah&#8217;s Experiments in Ethics: Chapter 4</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/04/17/appiahs-experiments-in-ethics-chapter-4/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/04/17/appiahs-experiments-in-ethics-chapter-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, it is a genuine pleasure to contribute to this forum: I only hope my comments will not lag too far behind the quality of previous posts! Now to Experiments in Ethics . . . Chapter four is entitled &#8220;The Varieties of Moral Experience&#8221; and my discussion will follow the sections of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appiah&#8217;s Experiments in Ethics: Chapter 3</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/03/31/appiahs-experiments-in-ethics-chapter-3/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/03/31/appiahs-experiments-in-ethics-chapter-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Experimental Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this chapter, Appiah presents experimental studies that seem to challenge our use of intuitions. He then outlines some responses to these studies. I shall begin with a summary of the chapter, using Appiah’s subheadings for easy navigation. I shall then offer some commentaries on this chapter. The Evidence of Self-Evidence Appiah first notes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appiah&#8217;s Experiments in Ethics: Chapter 2</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/03/17/appiahs-experiments-in-ethics-chapter-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Clarke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Experimental Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The second chapter of Experiments in Ethics (E in E) is entitled ‘The Case against Character’, and it focuses on a recent critique of virtue ethics due to Gilbert Harman, John Doris and some other philosophers. The inspiration for their attack on virtue ethics is a body of experimental work produced by ‘situationists’, members of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appiah&#8217;s Experiments in Ethics: Chapter 1</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/03/03/appiahs-experiments-in-ethics-chapter-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Levy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appiah Reading Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Experimental Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neil Levy's Posts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter One is essentially a ground clearing exercise. Appiah’s aim is to argue that experimental philosophy is not the innovative and threatening enterprise that it might seem: instead, it is a return to philosophy’s roots. Philosophy has traditionally been closely informed by scientific work, and the best philosophers have often engaged in science themselves. It [...]]]></description>
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