Keynotes

 

 

 

Opening Keynote

“Recent Discoveries by Graduate Students in Experimental Philosophy”

Joshua Knobe

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Joshua Knobe is an experimental philosopher, appointed in both the Program in Cognitive Science and the Department of Philosophy at Yale University. Most of his work involves using the kinds of experimental methods associated with cognitive science to address the kinds of questions associated with philosophy.

A lot of his recent research has been concerned with the impact of people’s moral judgments on their intuitions about questions that might initially appear to be entirely independent of morality (questions about intention, causation, etc.). It has often been suggested that people’s basic approach to thinking about such questions is best understood as being something like a scientific theory. He and his co-authors have offered a somewhat different view, according to which people’s ordinary way of understanding the world is actually infused through and through with moral considerations.

 

 

Closing Keynote

“The Powers of Stipulation”

Jennifer Nagel

Jennifer Nagel
BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (Pittsburgh)

Associate Professor

Research interests: Epistemology, Metacognition, Early Modern Philosophy.

 

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