New experimental philosophy from @ryandoran.bsky.social on the concept of the beautiful
Argues that the concept BEAUTIFUL is different in some fundamental respects from concepts like PRETTY
For example, participants think you can say "true beauty" but not "true prettiness"
Abstract. What is the nature of the concept beauty? Does it differ fundamentally from nearby concepts such as prettiness? It is argued here that beauty, bu
The 6th European Experimental Philosophy Conference will be this time in Cagliari, Italy... and I have been told the call for papers is still open!
sites.unica.it/6euroxphi/
True beauty vs true prettiness
Research by Doran suggests words like ‘beautiful’ have a dual character—descriptive *and* normative—while ‘pretty’ does not (no need to be beautiful to have a beautiful soul; no ‘pretty soul’):
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HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social
Experimental Philosophy
1. New paper with @cjmott.bsky.social now published in JEP: Applied! Pretty version here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-.... Full text here: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/.... More info in thread below.
#PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #CogPsyc
my new paper with @amenimeh.bsky.social
koenfucius
People sometimes agree to seemingly teleological sentences like:
"The sun produces light so that plants can photosynthesize"
Does this mean that people literally think the sun produces light for that purpose? New paper in Cognition suggests the answer is No
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hugo Viciana
You can say: There's a sense in which this clearly isn't beautiful, but in a deep sense, it truly is beautiful
But you can't say that same thing with "pretty"
This idea of a deeper "true beauty" that something can have even if it isn't beautiful in a more superficial sense... it really seems to be pointing to something fundamental about how we understand beauty
Experimental Philosophy
The journal Cognition – arguably the top journal in cognitive science – has published *ninety-nine* experimental philosophy papers
Clearly, experimental philosophy is now very well integrated into the broader field of cognitive science
Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
Sex differences in Knobe Effect: slightly stronger among women, more likely to attribute intentionality in harm scenario & less in help scenario; assign more blame in harm scenario across the board, regardless of whether they judged the action intentional.
Edouard Machery
Experimental Philosophy
Experimental Philosophy
Abstract. The tension between human free will, on the one hand, and divine foreknowledge and sovereignty, on the other, has been addressed differently in d
