On Experimental Philosophy

We will meet every other Monday from 15h to 17h, starting February 7th

Tentative list of topics and readings

We will start with a couple of papers on aesthetics and the ontology of art, which are connected to metaphysical issues to be discussed in subsequent sessions  (persistence of objects and personal identity):

• The Aesthetic Self. The Importance of Aesthetic Taste in Music and Art for Our Perceived Identity. Joerg Fingerhut, Javier Gomez-Lavin, Claudia Winklmayr & Jesse J. Prinz – 2021 – Frontiers in Psychology 11.

• The Role of Teleological Thinking in Judgments of Persistence of Musical Works. Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė & Vilius Dranseika – forthcoming – The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Then a few papers in metaphysics, from this list:

• Intuitions About Objects: From Teleology to Elimination. David Mark Kovacs – forthcoming – Mind:fzz071.

• Folk teleology drives persistence judgments. David Rose, Jonathan Schaffer & Kevin Tobia – 2020 – Synthese 197 (12):5491-5509.

• One — But Not the Same. John Schwenkler, Nick Byrd, Enoch Lambert & Matthew Taylor – forthcoming – Philosophical Studies.

• Personal Identity and Dual Character Concepts. Joshua Knobe – forthcoming – In Kevin Tobia (ed.), Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self. Bloomsbury.

• Memory as Evidence of Personal Identity. A Study on Reincarnation Beliefs, Vilius Dranseika – forthcoming –  In Kevin Tobia (ed.), Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self. Bloomsbury.

Finally two or three pieces on consciousness:

• Díaz, Rodrigo (2021): Do People Think Consciousness Poses a Hard Problem?: Empirical Evidence on the Meta-Problem of Consciousness.- Journal of Consciousness Studies 28 (3-4):55-75.

• Fischer, Eugen & Sytsma, Justin (forthcoming): Zombie Intuitions. Cognition.

• Sytsma, J. & Ozdemir, E.(2019). No Problem: Evidence that the Concept of Phenomenal Consciousness is Not Widespread. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26 (9-10):241-256.