Another academic year has come and gone, and all of us here at the U of I have settled into long stretches of summer work, dissertation writing, or packing for our new academic positions across the country. Congratulations again to all of those who finished their PhDs this year, and a warm welcome to our […]
Belief Updating in Moral Dilemmas
Derek Powell, Joseph Spino, and I have a paper on belief updating in moral dilemmas if y’all are into that sorta thing. Comments welcome/appreciated. -Zach http://publish.illinois.edu/philosophygrads/files/2013/03/ROPP-Revised.pdf
Semantic Integration as a method for investigating concepts
Hey All, I just finished a chapter for a volume I’m contributing to. Paper and abstract below. The psychological research on which this paper is based is also attached below. -Zach Abstract: The last ten years in philosophy have been marked by widespread interest in the psychology of philosophy. Much of this work has been […]
Expert Philosophical Intuitions
In Dan’s epistemology seminar last semester, we spent the last portion of the class reading Herman Cappelen’s Philosophy without Intuitions. I don’t have a copy of it with me, so I’m going to play fast and loose with the citations (i.e. no citations). Philosophical intuitions are, according to him, understood to be sui generis. Their […]
Philosophical Isms
How plausible is it that, for every philosophical position to which we’ve given a name, there is a corresponding proposition such that to align oneself with the position is just to assent to that proposition? Philosophers have lots of positions that have earned names (see here for a partial list of isms, though not all […]