Abstract: Are social identities relevant to perceptual experience? If we were to draw on the phenomenological tradition to ask this, we might say instead: is perceptual experience situated? If so, in what way? Embodied theories of perception might be good candidates to answer this question, since they claim that the body and the environment make…
*Password: ACEW20* Abstract. 鈥� Conceptual engineering is the study of how to evaluate and change our concepts, meanings, words, and other representational devices. Experimental philosophy is the use of scientific techniques to collect data on human reactions to central examples in philosophy. One familiar project in conceptual engineering is to address the defects in our…
Paper:聽Haslanger (2020), “How Not to Change the Subject” Abstract. 鈥� Concepts are not only useful for enabling individuals to have attitudes – perception, cognition, conation, emotion – but for groups to coordinate聽with each other.聽 If we take seriously the coordinating function of concepts, then although in some cases it is important that concepts connect us…
Abstract. 鈥� Conceptual engineering (CE) is the area of philosophy dedicated to assessing and improving our representational devices. Experimental philosophy (XPhi) focuses on using techniques from experimental psychology and cognitive science to investigate traditional philosophical problems and methods. It has seemed to many that XPhi could play an important role in CE projects, and various…
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