The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi We will soon also be found under xphi.eu. Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.

Today, 18:00 CET. Please share.

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky. @xphijournal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/xphi... Please share!

An awesome conference online organized by the moral psychology research group! With the first Stich Award to honor my mentor Steve Stich. Paul bloom is the awardee.

🚨Publication Alert🚨 “Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?” 5 years in the making ~ 5000 participants 10 countries 6 languages Forthcoming in American Psychologist With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr. Short thread and preprint below

atest papers: Somogy Varga, Andrew J. Latham & Edouard Machery investigate the influence of evaluative judgments, specifically regarding an individual’s moral character, on judgments of health and disease in this #openaccess paper

Looks like a great (and free) introduction to philosophy! philpapers.org/rec/HORAPA-2

Happy to have played a small role in this project (which will be continued)

Got a shameless review invitation today: "As the reviewer, you should hold a PhD degree and publish 3-5 papers in the field of the manuscript. If you meet the requirements and would like to review this manuscript within 1 week, please send a short CV [1/2]

Want to try out an agent AI (can click on things, fill out forms, collect info from websites and much more), here you get 500 free credits for ManusAI (and me, too. Link below) manus.im/invitation/1...

I’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104

Randomly discovered that I have a signed book by Daniel Dennett 🤯 (the book was left, among others, in the office of a former colleague)

Two points of our motivation: 1. Reclaiming the means of production 😉 (scientists doing the work, whereas publishers making the money by charging the people whose taxes are used to pay the scientists does not seem right)

🔥Exciting news in experimental philosophy🔥 Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”. It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles. Editors and Editorial Board below. More information coming soon...

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Wissenschaftler:innen fordern mehr Klima-Engagement von Politik - noch bis Donnerstag 10 Uhr mitzeichnen! de.scientists4future.org/unterschrift...

Omg, I feel you, 100%! academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Certain scenarios pose significant challenges when it comes to moral evaluation. However, one country attacking another, innocent nation does not fall into this category.

🚨paper alert🚨 with Emanuel Viebahn Can you lie with pictures? Some (says-based) theories deny this possibility but lay people clearly think you can lie with pictures – and in at least three different ways. Forthcoming in AJP. Short thread with link to paper below.

❤️Finally❤️ Short thread with more info @neeleengelmann.bsky.social @narsimarsi.bsky.social @louisareins.bsky.social

After more than 80 EXTRA talks, the series comes to an (happy) end this Wednesday 🥲 Everyone welcome, just send me a DM/Email.

Tomorrow!

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xphi-Europe 2025 conference t.co/WHQDnIlgT2

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Wednesday, 13th November, 16:30 – 18:00 (German Time), changed to online only. If you like to join, just send me an email or DM.

Final proofs submitted...

Last season of the EXTRA colloquium. Everyone welcome, just send me a DM or email if you want to join.

Happy to announce a new volume in the Bloomsbury series “Advances in Experimental Philosophy”: Lying. It will mainly about (experimental work on) the concept of lying, but also about related concepts and non-conceptual issues. Hopefully out 2024. Table of contents below.

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 Big cross-cultural study (10 countries, 6 languages, N=3660) on lie and truth judgments in borderline cases, with @louisareins.bsky.social, Shirly__Orr, Alejandro Erut, Masaharu Mizumoto, and Qilin Li. Short thread below.

Eine Frage der Zeit, das Karussell wird sich aber sicherlich schon noch eine Zeit drehen. Ichbinhanna ichbinreyhan

Today :)

Very happy to announce our next EXTRA colloquium: Thomas Schmidt (HU Berlin) Conditional Ought Without Fuss Wednesday, January 24th, 16:30 to 18:00 CET. Everyone welcome, just send me an email/DM for Zoom link.

Ich möchte gern mal wissen, wie viel Zeit insgesamt in Forschung & Lehre fehlt, weil Tausende Wissenschaftler_innen sich nicht nur ständig bewerben müssen, sondern dabei auch das, was eh schon in der Bewerbung steht, noch händisch in immer neue Formulare & Berufungsportale copy-pasten. #IchBinHanna

We are very happy to have @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social (Keele University) on: VR, images, and chat rooms: Using innovative experimental methods in moral psychology, epistemology, and bioethics. Wednesday, January 17, 16:30 to 18:00 (CET), everyone welcome!

New paper (Social Psychological & Personality Science) by @louisareins.bsky.social (did all the heavy lifting) and I on partisan bias in lie judgments. Upshot: Democrats and Republicans exhibit only a small bias but think the other side is massively biased. Short thread and link below. (1/5)

We are very happy to announce our next guest talk by: Francesca Bonalumi (Central European University) about: Moral intuitions about strategic agents on Wednesday, November 22, 16:30 to 18:00 (German time; online+in person). Everyone welcome, just write me an email.

Lottery approach to grants ❤️

My friend Steffen Koch and I released this preprint of our paper: To enable us to think novel, formerly unthinkable, thoughts we must develop new foreign concepts through Susan Carey’s process of Quinean Bootstrapping. Includes (vague) instructions on how to assemble such concepts.

"Das derzeitige System macht die Wissenschaft kaputt. [...] Eine Grant- oder Stellenbewerbung nach der anderen in der Postdocphase, sodass konzentriertes wiss[.] Arbeiten kaum möglich ist. Das kann es doch nicht sein – nicht nur wegen dem Frust, den das erzeugt. Auch Qualität und Kreativität leiden"

We are very happy to announce another guest talk this week by Izabela Skoczeń (Jagiellonian University) about Lies, Common Ground and the Law on Wednesday, November 15, 16:30 to 18:00 (German time; online only). Everyone welcome!

Grant funding is getting ridiculous. Again, only very positive reviews (i.e. all recommend funding the project) but the panel decides to reject the proposal due to limited funding and strong competition. What a waste of resources - just do some kind of lottery...

Very happy having Steffen Koch in our EXTRA colloquium speaking about: Does conceptual engineering change minds? The argument from nameability (Wednesday, November 8, 16:30 to 18:00 CEST). Online & in person, everyone welcome, just write me an email!

If you're free and want to attend a public lecture I'm giving in Oxford on moral decision making in #VR please join :) 👇 30th November 10.30am Oxford Martin School #moralpsych bookwhen.com/uehiro#focus...

PSA: When you want to get final data of 100 participants and you expect 50% drop-outs, it is not a good idea to pre-register that you will recruit 150 participants.