Alex Wiegmann

Alex Wiegmann

@alexwiegmann.bsky.social

Philosopher/Cognitive Scientist at University of Granada (previously RUB). Interested in moral judgments, deceptive communication, AI, open science and stuff.

388 Followers 281 Following 84 Posts Joined Sep 2023
2 months ago

Today (Thursday), 4pm CET

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2 months ago

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3 months ago
The journal "Experimental

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3 months ago

Summary and preprint: bsky.app/profile/alex...

Paper: awspntest.apa.org/record/2026-...

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@louisareins.bsky.social and I started this project shortly before my nephew was born - he will start school soon. The drinks were consumed during the revisions. Link to paper (let me know if you don't have access), summary and preprint below. With S. Orr, M. Mizumoto, A. Erut & Q. Li.

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4 months ago
Experimental Philosophy

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.

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4 months ago

Today, 18:00 CET. Please share.

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6 months ago

TIRAMISU - WE ARE SO BACK!

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6 months ago
Logo of the new Journal "Experimental Philosophy".

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky.

@xphijournal.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/xphi...

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6 months ago
MPRG - Online Events An Online Gathering for Moral Psychology -- Fall 2025* Friday, November 7th: 4:00pm to 7:00pm (EST) Saturday, November 8th: 11:00am to 3:15pm (EST)

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.

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Moreover, lie and falsity attributions correlated strongly in our between-subjects design. In a follow-up experiment (in only three countries), we found this strong correlation also with a within-subject design design. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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In one condition, we asked whether the speaker lied, in another whether what s/he said was true or false. Although DIs can be considered borderline cases (true on the explicit level, false on the implicit level), we found a high degree of similarity between the ten countries.

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In our main experiment, we presented participants from ten countries (Chile, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, UK, US) with ten cases of deceptive implicatures (DIs). DIs are literally true but can nevertheless trick the hearer into a false belief.

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6 months ago

🚨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

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6 months ago
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The Wicked and the Ill This study investigates the influence of evaluative judgments, specifically regarding an individual’s moral character, on judgments of health and disease. Though it might seem that judgments of hea...

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

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7 months ago
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Joachim Horvath, Steffen Koch & Michael G. Titelbaum (eds.), Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Primer and Guide - PhilPapers Forthcoming guide with brief introductions on methods in analytic philosophy by experts on the relevant topics. With sections on: formal methods, argumentation, inferential methods, thought experiment...

Looks like a great (and free) introduction to philosophy!

philpapers.org/rec/HORAPA-2

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7 months ago

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

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8 months ago

and several keywords to describe your research interest to us. After we check it, we will add you to the system."

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8 months ago

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]

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8 months ago
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Manus Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.

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...

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9 months ago
Postdoctoral Scholar in Social/Personality Psychology University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

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

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9 months ago
Signed book page by Daniel Dennett. Title of the book: breaking the spell.

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

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9 months ago

We are very grateful to the “Fachinformationsdienst Philosophie” who provides the hosting environment and helps to get the whole thing starting. We hope this and similar initiatives will become popular soon.

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9 months ago

2. Experimental philosophers often have to compromise: Publishing in empirical journal often means to cut the philosophical aspects, while publishing in philosophy often comes with cuts regarding the empirical aspects

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9 months ago

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)

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9 months ago

Editors:
Ivar Hannikainen
Alex Wiegmann
Pascale Willemsen

Editorial Board:
A. Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social
J. Horvath
J. Knobe @xphilosopher.bsky.social
E. Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social
I. Stojanovic @isidorastojanovic.bsky.social
J. Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social

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9 months ago

🔥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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10 months ago
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1 year ago
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Unterschriftenaktion: Wissenschaftler:innen fordern mehr Klimaengagement von Politik - S4F Deutschland Noch bis Donnerstag Mittag können Wissenschaftler:innen auf der Webseite der Universität Bayreuth einen Appell unterzeichnen, der auf Initiative der Scientists for Future Bayreuth in Zusammenarbeit mi...

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

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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

Omg, I feel you, 100%!

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