Modeling and corpus methods in experimental philosophy

L Chartrand - Philosophy Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Research in experimental philosophy has increasingly been turning to corpus methods to
produce evidence for empirical claims, as they open up new possibilities for testing linguistic …

[BOOK][B] Rational rules: Towards a theory of moral learning

S Nichols - 2021 - books.google.com
Moral systems, like normative systems more broadly, involve complex mental
representations. Rational Rules proposes that moral learning can be understood in terms of …

A corpus study of “know”: On the verification of philosophers' frequency claims about language

N Hansen, JD Porter, K Francis - Episteme, 2021 - cambridge.org
We investigate claims about the frequency of “know” made by philosophers. Our
investigation has several overlap** aims. First, we aim to show what is required to confirm …

'Extremely Racist'and 'Incredibly Sexist': An Empirical Response to the Charge of Conceptual Inflation

S Liao, N Hansen - Journal of the American Philosophical …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Critics across the political spectrum have worried that ordinary uses of words like
'racist','sexist', and 'homophobic'are becoming conceptually inflated, meaning that these …

Experimental ordinary language philosophy: A cross-linguistic study of defeasible default inferences

E Fischer, PE Engelhardt, J Horvath, H Ohtani - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
This paper provides new tools for philosophical argument analysis and fresh empirical
foundations for 'critical'ordinary language philosophy. Language comprehension routinely …

Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora

K Reuter, L Baumgartner, P Willemsen - Language and Cognition, 2024 - cambridge.org
Philosophers and linguists currently lack the means to reliably identify evaluative concepts
and measure their evaluative intensity. Using a corpus-based approach, we present a new …

Young children's conceptions of knowledge

R Dudley - Philosophy Compass, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
How should knowledge be analyzed? Compositionally, as having constituents like belief
and justification, or as an atomic concept? In making arguments for or against these …

Corpus analysis: Building and using corpora—a case study on the use of “conspiracy theory”

K Reuter, L Baumgartner - … philosophy for beginners: A gentle introduction …, 2024 - Springer
Corpus analysis allows researchers to inform, illuminate, and investigate many problems.
This chapter provides easy access to some of the central tools commonly used in corpus …

Inappropriate stereotypical inferences? An adversarial collaboration in experimental ordinary language philosophy

E Fischer, P E. Engelhardt, J Sytsma - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
This paper trials new experimental methods for the analysis of natural language reasoning
and the (re) development of critical ordinary language philosophy in the wake of JL Austin …

Critical ordinary language philosophy: A new project in experimental philosophy

E Fischer - Synthese, 2023 - Springer
Several important philosophical problems (including the problems of perception, free will,
and scepticism) arise from antinomies that are developed through philosophical paradoxes …