Experimental Philosophy Meets Conceptual Analysis
This is advance notice of a conference on "Experimental Philosophy Meets Conceptual Analysis", to be held at ANU on July 18-20, 2007. The focus of the conference will be on recent work on experimental philosophy, especially the experimental study of philosophical intuitions, and its relationship to more traditional philosophical methods such as conceptual analysis. Speakers will include John Doris, Joshua Knobe, Stephen Stich, Frank Jackson, Michael Smith, and me. The conference is open to all and attendance is free, but if you plan to attend, please e-mail Maire Ni Mhorda at maire [at] coombs.anu.edu.au.
The conference will be part of what is shaping up to be a very busy conference season in Australia. At ANU alone, apart from this conference, there will likely be a conference on basic knowledge in late May or early June, a conference on reasons and rationality in August, and possibly something on perception in June. At Sydney there will be conferences on Norms and Analysis on June 26-28, on Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism August 29-31, and on Moral Cognition and Meta-Ethics from August 31 to September 2. Of course there is the Australasian Association of Philosophy, to be held on July 1-6. There will also be the World Congress of Neuroscience in Melbourne July 12-17 and the International Society for Research on the Emotions in Brisbane July 11-15. I'm sure there are many others I've missed -- feel free to make additions in the comments.
Could some advocate of "experimental philosophy" tell me what part of it is actually philosophical, please.
Posted by:Mitchell Porter | March 30, 2007 at 09:39 AM
Will you be accepting any other abstracts for posters or talks?
Posted by:Dylan Murray | March 31, 2007 at 12:27 AM
Mitchell Porter:
Until you provide an uncontentious account of "actually philosophical," I'm afraid our hands are tied.
All the Best,
John Doris
Posted by:doris | May 22, 2007 at 04:42 AM
John - see my paper, "What Actually Counts As Philosophy? The Folk Have Their Say" (forthcoming in Journal of Experimental Metaphilosophy).
Posted by:Mitchell Porter | May 22, 2007 at 03:07 PM
Dear Mitchell:
Is the paper posted somewhere? I don't think we get the journal here. Perhaps Dave can post it. I certainly look forward to seeing an uncontentious account of what counts as philosophy!
J
Posted by:doris | May 30, 2007 at 05:38 AM