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Colloquium: Josh Knobe (joint with PPE)

Monday, April 12, 2010 - 5:00pm

402 Cohen Hall

 

 

It has often been suggested that people's ordinary way of making sense of the world is much like a scientific inquiry. Yet recent experimental evidence points in a strikingly different direction. This evidence suggests that people's moral judgments can actually affect their intuitions about matters that might at first seem entirely 'scientific' -- including intuitions about causation and about people's mental states. I will be discussing a series of new studies that provide insight into the psychological mechanisms underlying these effects.

Paper Title

Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist