In this crisply written book, Hanno Sauer offers the first book-length treatment of debunking
arguments in ethics, develo** an empirically informed and philosophically sophisticated …

A coherent practice of mens rea ('guilty mind') ascription in criminal law presupposes a
concept of mens rea which is insensitive to the moral valence of an action's outcome. For …

Individuals tend to judge bad side effects as more intentional than good side effects (the
Knobe or side-effect effect). Here, we assessed how widespread these findings are by …

This chapter provides a critical though comprehensive review of the empirical literature on
the folk concept of intentional action. Recently, experimental evidence suggested that …

I argue that moral judgement is a natural kind on the grounds that it plays a
causal/explanatory role in psychological generalizations. I then develop an empirically …

A social norm clearly pre-or proscribes which kind of behavior is appropriate in a given
situation. However, there are situations in which two competing norms apply, meaning that …

This article explores whether perspective taking has an impact on the ascription of epistemic
states. To do so, a new method is introduced which incites participants to imagine …

Knobe [2003. Intentional action and side effects in ordinary language. Analysis, 63, 190–
194] demonstrated that people's intentionality judgments in side effects depend on the …

Beebe and Buckwalter (2010) made the surprising discovery that people are more inclined
to attribute knowledge when norms are violated than when they are conformed to. The …

In this paper we will propose a simple linguistic approach to the Knobe effect, or the moral
asymmetry of intention attribution in general, which is just to ask the felicity judgments on the …