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Issues in Experimental Philosophy: Cross-Cultural Differences (2018/2019)

The seminar examines cross-cultural and inter-group differences in ordinary intuitions studied in experimental philosophy.

Convenors: Katarzyna Kuś, Adrian Ziółkowski

Course code: 3501-PFE18-S. Language of instruction: Polish. Course description in USOS.

The first semester introduces experimental philosophy and examines cross-cultural differences in intuitions about the reference of proper names and knowledge. In the second semester, participants design and conduct their own team studies.

BLOCK I: Introduction to experimental philosophy: philosophical intuitions and their role in philosophy

  1. Nadelhoffer T., Nahmias E. (2007) The past and future of experimental philosophy, „Philosophical Explorations” 10, 123-149.
  2. Cohnitz, D., & Haukioja, J. (2015). Intuitions in philosophical semantics. Erkenntnis, 80(3), 617-641.
  3. Andow, James (2015). How Distinctive Is Philosophers’ Intuition Talk? Metaphilosophy 46 (4-5):515-538.

BLOCK II: Cross-cultural studies in experimental philosophy

  1. Sechrest, L., Fay, T. L., & Zaidi, S. M. H. (1972). Problems of translation in cross cultural research. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 3(1), 41–56.
  2. Kasaki, M. (2017). Problems of Translation for Cross-Cultural Experimental Philosophy. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 34(3), 481-500.

BLOCK III: Ethics: cross-cultural differences in moral intuitions

  1. Sarkissian, H., Park, J., Tien, D., Wright, J., & Knobe, J. (2011). Folk moral relativism. Mind and Language, 26(4), 482–505.
  2. Ahlenius, H., & Tännsjö, T. (2012). Chinese and Westerners respond differently to the trolley dilemmas. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 12(3–4), 195–201.
  3. Gold, N., Andrew M. C., Briony D. P. (2014). Cultural differences in responses to real-life and hypothetical trolley problems. Judgment and Decision Making, 9(1), 65–76.
  4. Arutyunova, K. R., Alexandrov, Y. I., & Hauser, M. D. (2016). Sociocultural influences on moral judgments: East-West, male–female, and young–old. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1334.

BLOCK IV: Philosophy of language: cross-cultural differences in intuitions about the reference of proper names

  1. Machery, E., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., & Stich, S. P. (2004). Semantics, cross-cultural style. Cognition, 92(3), B1-B12.
  2. Martí, G. (2008). Against semantic multi-culturalism. Analysis, 69(1), 42-48
  3. Lam, Barry (2010). Are cantonese speakers really descriptivists? Revisiting cross-cultural semantics. Cognition, 115 (2):320–32.
  4. Mallon, R., Machery, E., Nichols, S., & Stich, S. (2009). Against arguments from reference. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 79(2), 332-356.
  5. Machery, E., Stich, S. (2012) Experimental philosophy of language [w:] G. Russell, D. G. Fara (red.) Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, New York: Routledge, s. 495-512.
  6. Andow, J. (2014). Intuitions, disagreement and referential pluralism. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 5(2), 223-239.
  7. Beebe, J. R., & Undercoffer, R. J. (2015). Moral valence and semantic intuitions. Erkenntnis, 80(2), 445-466.
  8. Sytsma, J., Livengood, J., Sato, R., & Oguchi, M. (2015). Reference in the land of the rising sun: A cross-cultural study on the reference of proper names. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 6(2), 213-230.

BLOCK V: Epistemology: cross-cultural differences in intuitions about knowledge

  1. Weinberg J. M., Nichols S., Stich S. (2001) Normativity and epistemic intuitions, „Philosophical Topics” 29(1-2), 429-460.
  2. Seyedsayamdost H. (2015) On Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions: Failure of Replication, „Episteme” 12 (1), 95-116.
  3. Kim M., Yuan Y. (2015) No Cross-Cultural Differences in the Gettier Car Case Intuition: A Replication study of Weinberg et al. 2001, „Episteme” 12(3), 355-361.
  4. Machery, Edouard, Stephen Stich, David Rose, Amita Chatterjee, Kaori Karasawa, Noel Struchiner, Smita Sirker, Naoki Usui, & Takaaki Hashimoto, 2015, “Gettier Across Cultures”, Noûs, 51(3): 645–664. doi:10.1111/nous.12110

BLOCK VI: Inter-group differences in other philosophical intuitions: gender

  1. Buckwalter, W., & Stich, S. (2014). Gender and philosophical intuition. Experimental philosophy, 2, 307-346.
  2. Friesdorf, Rebecca, Paul Conway, & Bertram Gawronski, 2015, “Gender Differences in Responses to Moral Dilemmas: a Process Dissociation Analysis”, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(5): 696–713. doi:10.1177/0146167215575731
  3. Seyedsayamdost, Hamid, 2015, “On Gender and Philosophical Intuition: Failure of Replication and Other Negative Results”, Philosophical Psychology, 28(5): 642–673. doi:10.1080/09515089.2014.893288
  4. Adleberg, Toni, Morgan Thompson, & Eddy Nahmias, 2015, “Do men and women have different philosophical intuitions? Further data”, Philosophical Psychology, 28(5): 615–641. doi:10.1080/09515089.2013.878834