Nat Hansen

I tried to comment on the serious part not the joke part but it’s late where I am

Screenshot from the article: "First, with respect to the replication of the six earlier tests on proper names, significant cross-cultural differences were successfully replicated in the conditions using the original MMNS (2004) vignette and that of Li et al. (2018). Using the terminology common in experimental semantics, Chinese-speaking participants showed a tendency to endorse the descriptivist view, whereas British participants favored the causal-historical view."

The super dog race example from Li et al. (2018): We constructed stories similar to the original Gödel case about topics that are more appropriate for young children. A simplified version of one critical story is given below: Super Dog Race Long ago, there was a race called the Super Dog Race. Max, Pickles and Blaze participated in the race. Max crossed the finish line first, winning the race, but he got too excited and ran all the way to the North Pole. Pickles crossed the finish line second. He stopped and watched Max run away. The race announcer mistakenly thought that Pickles won the race. He told every newspaper in the world that Pickles won. He also told them that another dog, Blaze, ran very fast despite his short legs. Since then, everyone learned that Pickles won the race. They don’t know anything else about Pickles. Tom and Emily learned at school that Pickles won the Super Dog Race. This is the only thing they know about the dog race and Pickles. They don’t know anything about Max. That night, their dad asked: Do you know who won the Super Dog Race? Tom replied: Blaze was the dog that won the Super Dog Race. Emily said: Pickles was the dog that won the Super Dog Race.

I could be wrong, but I think the finding is more about cultural variation in responses to Gödel-"style" cases than about Gödel himself, since the replication finds cultural differences also with the "super dog race" example from li et al (2018) designed to be useable with kid participants

Appel à propositions/Call for papers : Stanley Cavell at 100 - UMR 8103 - ISJPS Appel à propositions/Call for papers for an International Centennial Conference : Stanley Cavell at 100 (Paris, Rome, Boston, 2026)

Call for papers : Stanley Cavell at 100 - UMR 8103 - ISJPS isjps.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/ap...

At Chicago we had epistemic metaphysics

This is how the book opens:

Great shots!

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I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...

Is Pain “All in your Mind”? Examining the General Public’s Views of Pain - Review of Philosophy and Psychology By definition, pain is a sensory and emotional experience that is felt in a particular part of the body. The precise relationship between somatic events at the site where pain is experienced, and cent...

If you have a pain in your foot, is the pain something in your mind? Or something in your foot?

Experiments from Emma Borg and colleagues indicate: People can see it either way - either as something in your mind or as something in the world

Do any other concepts work in that same way?

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This is an incredible dataset, and it's a lot of fun to play around with it on the Post45 site!

When Words Are Stolen The real stakes of semantic fights.

"Even when a term has been captured, this doesn’t need to be the end of the story. ... strategies of appropriation and collective creativity that marginalized groups have long engaged in."

www.liberalcurrents.com/when-words-a...

@floresophize.bsky.social and Nico Orlandi on semantic fights.

I tried to coin the phrase "footnote papers" for papers like this that people feel the need to acknowledge but don't feel the need to actually engage with.

J. L. Austin

Updated SEP entry: J. L. Austin. plato.stanford.edu/entries/aust...

No one can stop you from rating the likert scale

I thought this preprint was informative, if worrying. I don't think I have understood the age-period-cohort problem well, even though it's an old problem.

In particular, it got me worried about the apparent time hypothesis we have been using in studying a certain kind of language change.

Awesome news, well done!

🔥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...

Breaking news: There will soon be a specialist journal devoted to the interdisciplinary field of EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

This will be enormously valuable to the field

"speech" is increasing in frequency over time

"text" is decreasing in frequency over time

"Speech" is defeating "text" (bweatherson.shinyapps.io/t20-graphs/)

I built a little Shiny app that shows how often various words were used in 20 prominent philosophy journals from 1980-2019.

bweatherson.shinyapps.io/t20-graphs/

This is a job in political theory/philosophy that is specifically for someone interested in empirical work. Looks perfect for folks doing experimental philosophy

Very interesting corpus:

Ethan Landes & Kevin Reuter, Conceptual Revision in Action - PhilPapers Conceptual engineering is the practice of revising concepts to improve how people talk and think. Its ability to improve talk and thought ultimately hinges on the successful dissemination of desired c...

Forthcoming in RoPP: Are conceptual engineers right, can concepts be revised?

Not settling for indirect evidence or speculation, we went right to the source and checked experimentally.

philpapers.org/rec/LANCRI-3

Glad to see this is coming out!

Footnote: "See Liao and Hansen (forthcoming) and Hansen and Liao (forthcoming) for reasons to doubt that 'words themselves have changed meaning somewhat' when the word is 'racist'."

More details of the damage from the attack, plus a picture of the fellows that year (1969–70), including Amelie Rorty and Donald Davidson: casbs.stanford.edu/news/50-year...

In Malcolm Harris’s Palo Alto, there’s an anecdote about the only manuscript copy of Rawls’s A Theory of Justice almost being destroyed in an arson attack on CASBS at Stanford!

Shen-yi Liao & Nat Hansen, Conceptual Inflation - PhilPapers Theorists have raised worries about conceptual inflation for more than three decades. These worries have been frequently expressed about ‘racism’ and ‘racist’, as well as other politically contested t...

Sure. Tomorrow's stock market will be a bloodbath, and an economic depression is probably coming. But you know what you should care about right now?

CONCEPTUAL INFLATION

Well, lucky you. @nathansen.bsky.social and I have you covered. philpapers.org/rec/LIACIF