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Dates	Day of the Week	Topic	Discussion Leader/Visitor	Afternoon
6/22/2009	Monday	Introduction	Mallon, Nichols
READINGS: Knobe, J. and S. Nichols (2008). Experimental Philosophy: A Manifesto. Experimental Philosophy. J. Knobe and S. Nichols. New York, Oxford University Press: 3-16. Weinberg, J., S. Nichols, et al. (2001). "Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions." Philosophical Topics 29(1&2): 429-459.
6/23/2009	Tuesday	Philosophical methodology; epistemic intuitions	Jonathan Weinberg	Optional: Introduction to statistics: concepts and background (Machery)
READINGS: Weinberg, J., J. Alexander, et al. (ms). "Unstable Intuitions and Need for Cognition: How Being Thoughtful Sometimes Just Means Being Wrong in a Different Way." Swain, S., J. Alexander, et al. (2008). "The Instability of Philosophical Intuitions: Running Hot and Cold On True Temp." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXXVI(1): 138-155. Bonus Reading: Shanteau on expertise.
6/24/2009	Wednesday	Diversity in semantic intuitions	Edouard Machery
READINGS: Devitt, M. (forthcoming). "Experimental Semantics." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Machery, E., R. Mallon, et al. (2004). "Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style." Cognition 92: B1-B12. Machery, E., C. Olivola, et al. (forthcoming). "Linguistic and metalinguistic intuitions in the philosophy of language." Analysis. Mallon, R., E. Machery, et al. (forthcoming). "Against Arguments from Reference." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Marti, G. (2009). ". Against Semantic Multi-Culturalism." Analysis 69: 42-48. Bonus Material: Machery, NEH Statistics Slides Machery, NEH Semantics Presentation Slides. NB: All slides are provided as a courtesy of our guest faculty. They are not to be reused or quoted without the explicit permission of the author.
6/25/2009	Thursday	Relativism and Value	Jesse Prinz
BACKGROUND READINGS: Prinz, J. (2007). Dining With Canibals. The Emotional Construction of Morals. New York, Oxford University Press: 173-214. Prinz, J. (ms). Can Critics Be Dispassionate? The Role of Emotion in Aesthetic Judgment. Bonus Reading: Nisbett group on cultural aesthetic differences. Bonus Material: Prinz presentation slides. NB: All slides are provided as a courtesy of our guest faculty. They are not to be reused or quoted without the explicit permission of the author.
6/26/2009	Friday	Taking stock & integrating into the curriculum	Mallon, Nichols
No new readings.
6/29/2009	Monday	Studying conceptual change in science the X-phi way	Paul Griffiths, Karola Stotz
Griffiths, P. E. (2008). "Experimental Philosophy of Science." Philosophy Compass 3(3): 507-521. Stotz, K., P. E. Griffiths, et al. (2004). "How scientists conceptualize genes: An empirical study." Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences(December). Waters, K. (2004). "What concept analysis in philosophy of science should be (and why competing philosophical analyses of gene concepts cannot be tested by polling scientists)." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 26(1): 81-90. ONLINE SURVEY: http://www.representinggenes.org/ Please fill out the questionnaire. BONUS: Griffiths and Stotz: Experimental Philosophy of Science: The Gene (Slides on reserve) NB: All slides are provided as a courtesy of our guest faculty. They are not to be reused or quoted without the explicit permission of the author.
6/30/2009	Tuesday	Expert subjects; concept of gene	Paul Griffiths, Karola Stotz
7/1/2009	Wednesday	Concept of Innateness	Paul Griffiths	Optional: Research methods and design (Lombrozo)
Ariew, A. (2006). Innateness. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. M. Matthen and C. Stevens. Amsterdam and Oxford, Elsevier. 3. Griffiths, P., E. Machery, et al. (forthcoming). "The Vernacular Concept of Innateness." Mind and Language. Bonus Material: Lombrozo Methods Slides. NB: All slides are provided as a courtesy of our guest faculty. They are not to be reused or quoted without the explicit permission of the author.
7/2/2009	Thursday	Causation	Tania Lombrozo	Working groups/taking stock and integrating into the curriculum
Lombrozo, T. (2006). "The structure and function of explanations." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10(10): 464-470. Bonus Material: Lombrozo Causation Presentation slides. NB: All slides are provided as a courtesy of our guest faculty. They are not to be reused or quoted without the explicit permission of the author.
7/3/2009	Friday
7/6/2009	Monday	The side-effect effect	Joshua Knobe	Optional: SPSS tutorial (Knobe)
Knobe, J. (2009 (ms)). "Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist."
7/7/2009	Tuesday	Moral intuitions	Joshua Greene
Greene, J. D. (2008). The Secret Joke of Kant's Soul. Moral Psychology. W. Sinnott-Armstrong. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. 3: 35-117. Greene, J. D., F. A. Cushman, et al. (2009 (forthcoming)). "Pushing moral buttons: The interaction between personal force and intention in moral judgment." Cognition.
7/8/2009	Wednesday	Free will, responsibility, and identification	John Doris
READINGS: Doris, J. (forthcoming). Partial Bibliography. Natural History of the Self. Doris, J. (forthcoming). Rationalization. Natural History of the Self. Doris, J. (forthcoming). "Skepticism about Persons." Philosophical Issues 19.
7/9/2009	Thursday	Free will & responsibility	Adina Roskies
Nahmias, E. A. and D. J. Coates (2007). "Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Mechanism: Experiments on Folk Intuitions." Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXXI: 214-242. Nichols, S. and A. L. Roskies (2008). "Bringing Moral Responsibility Down to Earth." Journal of Philosophy 105: 371-388. Roskies, A. (2006). "Neuroscientific Challenges to Free Will and Responsibility." Trends in Cognitive Science 10(9): 419-424. BONUS Material: Adina Roskies slides on Free Will.
7/10/2009	Friday	Taking stock & integrating into the curriculum	Mallon, Nichols
7/13/2009	Monday	Intuitions and experimental philosophy	Ernest Sosa
Sosa, Ernest.  Unpublished.  Armchair Philosophy. Alexander, J. and J. Weinberg (2007). "Analytic Epistemology and Experimental Philosophy." Philosophy Compass 2(1): 56-80. Stich, S. (forthcoming). Reply to Sosa. Stich and His Critics. New York, Blackwell. Weinberg, J. (2007). "How to Challenge Intuitions Empirically Without Risking Skepticism." Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXXI: 318-343.
7/14/2009	Tuesday	Philosophical methodology	David Chalmers
7/15/2009	Wednesday	Ethics and experimental philosophy	Kwame Anthony Appiah	MOVED from 7/13: Optional: Research ethics and ethics concerning human subjects (IRB) (Francis)
READINGS: Chp. 5, Appiah, A. (2008). Experiments in ethics. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.
7/16/2009	Thursday	Future of experimental philosophy	Walter Sinnott-Armstrong	ADDED: Meeting with NEH Program Officer (Jinlei Augst) for Institute feedback.
Knobe, J. and S. Nichols (2008). Experimental Philosophy: A Manifesto. Experimental Philosophy. J. Knobe and S. Nichols. New York, Oxford University Press: 3-16. Sinnott-Armstrong, W. forthcoming. “Abstract + Concrete = Paradox.” Uncorrected Proofs. Mandelbaum, Eric and David Ripley. Unpublished. “Explaining the Abstract/Concrete Paradoxes in Moral Psychology: The NBAR Hypothesis”
7/17/2009	Friday	Participant presentations	Mallon/Nichols	Participant presentations
Friday Evening: Farewell Picnic in Millcreek Canyon!