Guilherme Almeida
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Lawrence Solum
6 months ago
Almeida on Dual Character Concepts,
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- Guilherme Almeida has posted A Defense of Dual Character Concepts in Legal Philosophy and Beyond on SSRN.
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I just posted a new pre-print where I argue that dual character concepts are something new and interesting in legal philosophy and beyond and that they can't be reduced to ambiguity, prototypes, or metalinguistic negotiations. Comments are very welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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<span>A defense of dual character concepts in legal philosophy and beyond</span><span></span>
Recent work in jurisprudence claimed that central legal concepts, such as that of LEGAL VALIDITY and of a legal RULE have a dual character structure. Moreover,
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5354679
6 months ago
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Brian Flanagan
6 months ago
Evidence of Public Acceptance of AI Law Clerks: We investigated how Kenyans evaluate the legitimacy of court decisions when judges rely on AI-generated legal research—versus that of human law clerks.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The rule of law or the rule of robots? Nationally representative survey evidence from Kenya
With AI now passing the bar, and with increasing court caseloads worldwide hampering access to justice, there are calls for judges to make use of chatbots to help expedite their work. Such calls po...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600834.2025.2533042#abstract
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Lawrence Solum
7 months ago
Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu/entries/expe...
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Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Experimental jurisprudence (or “X-Jur”) addresses questions of jurisprudence or legal philosophy by complementing traditional philosophical analysis with empirical methods. Often those methods…
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/experimental-jurisprudence/
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Experimental Philosophy
8 months ago
This is a job in political theory/philosophy that is specifically for someone interested in empirical work. Looks perfect for folks doing experimental philosophy
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Tomer Ullman
9 months ago
oh wow wow wow. Wow. It's officially out, after many years: "Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning"
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k~vV_Ebvv...
Read on for a brief summary, but I encourage you to read the thing itself.
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Now out @ Journal of Research in Personality (free until June):
authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7EqWL4L...
We found evidence that trait empathy correlates with purposivism in rule violation judgments. Also: most people share a single concept that seems to have a dual character structure.
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9 months ago
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Daniel Lakens
9 months ago
The long awaited results of the Brazilian Reproducibility Network are in! Their final sample consists of 97 replications of 47 studies. The only coherent measure of replication, p<.05, shows a replication rate of 19%.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Short thread on the latest paper led by
@joseluiz.bsky.social
w/
@lawstuff.bsky.social
:
arxiv.org/abs/2503.00992
The paper addresses two issues w/ previous machine psychology papers (including our own): 1) are LLMs mastering concepts, or are they memorizing the data? 1/14
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Evidence of conceptual mastery in the application of rules by Large Language Models
In this paper we leverage psychological methods to investigate LLMs' conceptual mastery in applying rules. We introduce a novel procedure to match the diversity of thought generated by LLMs to that ob...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00992
10 months ago
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Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET)
10 months ago
📢 New publication by Piotr Bystranowski from INCET in open access: "Self-absorbed, yet interesting? A bibliometric study on general jurisprudence"
journals.openedition.org/revus/10886
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Self-absorbed, yet interesting?
General jurisprudence – the part of legal philosophy dealing with the most general and abstract questions about law – is increasingly characterised in terms of stagnation, lack of progress and fixa...
https://journals.openedition.org/revus/10886
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Brian Flanagan
10 months ago
New paper with
@joseluiz.bsky.social
and
@almeida2808.bsky.social
showing that AI possesses the concept of rule. We find that generative AI emulates how humans apply rules to novel situations in which a rule's letter and spirit conflict.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Evidence of conceptual mastery in the application of rules by Large Language Models
In this paper we leverage psychological methods to investigate LLMs' conceptual mastery in applying rules. We introduce a novel procedure to match the diversity
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5161877
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Experimental Philosophy
11 months ago
Our incredibly short (5 page) paper on intuitions about consent — with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and
@rosesomm.bsky.social
We find cases where people agree that both: (a) There’s a sense in a which a person clearly consented (b) In deeper sense, she did not consent at all
osf.io/63d8s
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Roseanna Sommers
11 months ago
New study with Joanna Demaree-Cotton and Josh Knobe!
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Ethan Landes
11 months ago
Abstracts due this Saturday!
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New paper led by Priscila Andrade investigating different theories about precedent.
bit.ly/4hH6QpJ
Whether the law has changed with a new decision depends on your concept of precedent. When facts are the same and the outcome differs, the law has changed, but what about other combinations?
11 months ago
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Eric Schwitzgebel
12 months ago
My piece yesterday in Aeon: a 3000-word "love song for philosophy", arguing that the our species' capacity to wonder philosophically, even when we make no progress toward answers, is the most intrinsically awesome thing about planet Earth. Philosophy needs no other excuse.
aeon.co/essays/if-yo...
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If you ask ‘Why?’, you’re a philosopher, and you’re awesome | Aeon Essays
Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome
https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-ask-why-youre-a-philosopher-and-youre-awesome
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Carme Isern-Mas
12 months ago
Does reflecting on the consequences of real-world controversies shift moral opinions? Does it lead to progress or, at least, consensus? Find out in our
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
blog post:
cognitivesciencesociety.org/consequences...
w/ P. Bystranowski, I. Hannikainen & J. Rueda
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Consequences and Convictions: Testing the Impact of Reflection on Ethical Beliefs - Cognitive Science Society
Welcome to CogSci Unpacked, an exciting blog series dedicated to summarizing academic papers from the Cognitive Science, a CSS Journal. Our goal is to bridge the gap between academia and the broader p...
https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/consequences-and-convictions-testing-the-impact-of-reflection-on-ethical-beliefs/
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
about 1 year ago
Now the
#ExperimentalPhilosophy
Society session!
@almeida2808.bsky.social
presented
#xJur
data with
@lawstuff.bsky.social
and Ivar Hannikainen: "Trait
#Empathy
Predicts Purposivist Rule Application" Results in image
#altText
#openAccess
preprint:
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#xPhi
#law
#textualism
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Ethan Landes
about 1 year ago
The 2025 Euro
#Xphi
conference has just been announced for July 10-12 at University of East Anglia. The subfield is very friendly and supportive, and so I highly recommend the conference, especially if you are just starting out your empirical journey
x-phi.uea.ac.uk/EuroX-Phi202...
#philsky
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5th European Experimental Philosophy Conference
A group of experimental philosophers at the University of East Anglia
https://x-phi.uea.ac.uk/EuroX-Phi2025-conference/
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Jordan Wylie
about 1 year ago
Blueksy! I will be recruiting a PhD student and a lab manager in the Fall of 2025. The lab will study rules and curiosity from a moral psychology lens—exploring how we judge rule-breakers, reason about rules, and what sparks our curiosity in the moral domain.
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Brian Flanagan
about 1 year ago
X-Jur has arrived -
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Amazing work led by
@neeleengelmann.bsky.social
. Super proud to be a part of it!!
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about 1 year ago
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Torcendo pra essa rede pegar!
over 1 year ago
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Brian Flanagan
over 1 year ago
'The Rule of Law or the Rule of Robots? Nationally Representative Survey Evidence from Kenya'
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We report a vignette-based experiment (N 2,246) which finds that judicial reliance on AI law clerks is considered no less acceptable than reliance on human ones.
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The Rule of Law or the Rule of Robots? Nationally Representative Survey Evidence from Kenya
With AI now passing the bar, and with court caseloads worldwide hampering access to justice, there are calls for judges to make use of chatbots to help expedite
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4865782
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Experimental Philosophy
almost 2 years ago
New experimental jurisprudence result: People are drawn to an extreme version of the natural law’ thesis If a behavior is morally wrong, then even if there’s no statute banning it, people think there’s a sense in which it is unlawful (!)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Updated pre-print (
arxiv.org/abs/2308.01264
) testing moral and legal intuitions in GPT-4, Claude 2.1, Llama 2, and Gemini Pro across a series of different studies. We found that...
almost 2 years ago
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Experimental Philosophy
almost 2 years ago
New study from
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looks at intuitions about textualism vs. purposivism in philosophy of law -- and finds this same pattern It is not: some people are textualists, others are purposivists. It is: each person has both textualist and purposivist intuitions
bit.ly/3uxRO2m
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New pre-print w/
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and Ivar Hannikainen on the psychology of rule violation. We found that trait empathy is associated with purposivism. Importantly, that association happens within a shared framework, as most participants take both text and purpose into account.
almost 2 years ago
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Experimental Philosophy
about 2 years ago
Why do we find opposing intuitions about philosophical questions? I argue that recent results suggest a new picture: - It’s mostly NOT about different people having different intuitions - It’s about individual people having CONFLICTING INTUITIONS
philpapers.org/archive/JOSC...
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neele engelmann
over 2 years ago
Happy to share joint work with
@almeida2808.bsky.social
, Felipe Oliveira, Karolina Prochownik, Ivar Hannikainen, Noel Struchiner and Stefan Magen: "Is there a duty to apply immoral laws?" 👩⚖️ tl;dr: It's a big NO 🙅♀️from people, both laypeople and those with some legal training.
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How well does GPT4 align with humans in terms of moral and legal reasoning? We (w
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et al) ran eight studies to compare them, finding that there are ways in which both are strikingly similar, but also several systematic differences. Check it out:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01264
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Exploring the psychology of GPT-4's Moral and Legal Reasoning
Large language models have been used as the foundation of highly sophisticated artificial intelligences, capable of delivering human-like responses to probes about legal and moral issues. However,...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01264
over 2 years ago
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