12-13 Sep 2013
Bristol, U.K.
4th Workshop of Experimental Philosophy Group UK, a BIRTHA Conference, Wills
Memorial Building, University of Bristol, 2013
Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Register online here (by 5 September):
http://shop.bris.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=661
Provisional Programme
Thursday 12th September
10:30 ? 10:55 Registration and Coffee (Put up posters)
10:55 ? 11:00 Welcome
11:00 ? 12:30 Regina Rini (Oxford) Experiments and Two Conceptions of
Philosophy
12:30 ? 13:15 James Beebe (Buffalo) & Ryan Undercoffer (Syracuse)
Individual and Cross-Cultural Differences in Semantic
Intuitions: New Experimental Findings
13:15 ? 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session
14:00 ? 16:15 Parallel Sessions
Session A 1 Joshua Shepherd (Oxford) Consciousness and Free Will:
Taking the Folk Seriously
2 Pendaran Roberts, James Andow & Kelly Schmidtke
(Nottingham) Colour relationalism and the real
deliverances of introspection
3 Tomasz Wysocki (Washington, St Louis) & Artur Tanona
(Wroclaw)Intuition and Argumentation
Session B 1 Albert Newen (Bochum) Blaming the leader and praising
the follower: A Cross-Cultural Study concerning moral
responsibility in Germany and United Arabic Emirates
2 Claire Hewson (Open University) What can measuring folk
intuitions really tell us? An illustrative study of the
folk concept of belief, and some methodological reflections
and suggestions for the future.
3 Heinzelmann (Cambridge) Self-control and-risk-aversion
16:15 ? 16:30 Coffee
16:30 ? 18:00 Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) The Experience of Reading
Later All welcome to join for drinks nearby and dinner (if
booked) at Wagamama
Friday 13th September
08.45 ? 09:00 Coffee
09:00 ? 10:30 James Moore (Goldsmiths) Was that me? Investigating the
sense of agency in both health and disease
10:30 ? 12:45 Parallel Sessions
Session A 1 Leon Ciechanowski & Michał Barcz An Ambiguity of
Intentional Action
2 Gunnar Bjrnsson (Ume) Digging Deeper: Problems for
Sripada?s Deep Self Account of Manipulation Worries
3 Florian Cova (Geneva), Paul Egr & Aurlien Nioche
(Institut Jean Nicod) Reactive attitudes and ascriptions
of moral responsibility: an empirical investigation
Session B 1 Shun Tsugita (Tokyo), Yu Izumi (Maryland) & Masaharu
Mizumoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology) Is Knowing How a Mental State?
2 Jonathan Livengood & Zachary Horne (Illinois) Ordering
Effects Evidence Effects and Skepticism
3 Roland Bluhm (TU Dortmund) Linguistic Text Corpora in
Conceptual Analysis: An Introduction of a (Partly)
Empirical Method to Philosophy
12:45 ? 13:45 Lunch and Poster Session
13.45? 15:15 Natalie Gold (KCL) Moral judgments and moral behaviour in
hypothetical and real-life trolley problems
15:15 Official finish
The workshop will be followed by an informal open meeting about the running
of the group and to discuss ideas for future events. This will be open to
all participants.
Thanks to the Mind Association, the Analysis Trust and the University of
Bristol (BIRTHA, the Philosophy Department and the Centre for Science and
Philosophy) for their generous support of this event.
http://sites.google.com/site/experimentalphilosophygroupuk