Join us tomorrow, Tuesday October 7th at 12PM EDT for a talk with former fellow Michael Tomasello!

"Agency and the Organization of Human Experience."

More info and abstract here: ow.ly/usIc50X4wS7

Zoom Link: pitt.zoom.us/j/96906545761

06.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Mikayla Kelley, The Normative Function of Intentional Action - PhilPapers This essay identifies a normative function of the concept of intentional action. Specifically, I argue that the concept of intentional action functions to focus our evaluative concern on some doings r...

Mikayla Kelley has an important new paper on why human beings even have a concept of intentional action

The key question: What does this concept do in our lives?

Her answer: Since we can't possibly evaluate all actions, it helps us choose which ones to evaluate

philpapers.org/rec/KELTNF-3

27.09.2025 14:50 — 👍 21    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 2

About the "everyday dilemmas".

Descriptive statistics about the data.

The descriptions of intuition, deliberation, friends' advice, and wisdom of a crowd.

Results

Thousands of people in a dozen countries thought reflective reasoning was usually the best way to make a decision in ordinary dilemmas.

Runners up were intuition, friends' advice, and the wisdom of a crowd (in that order).

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#cogSci #epistemology #xPhi

24.09.2025 10:26 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Job Details

...And we're also hiring an RA/Lab manager! This full-time post would be perfect for candidates with a masters or undergrad in psychology (or related). Great opportunity for excellent students to gain research experience prior to further study. Info here tinyurl.com/3vzdcatr

03.08.2025 10:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw

21.07.2025 15:39 — 👍 32    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 1

Excited to be travelling to NY for SPP this week to present my paper with @mattlindauer.bsky.social and Cesar Palacios-Gonzalez on the moral psychology of respecting the wishes of the dead 🧠♥️🪦📊

14.06.2025 16:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to SPP this month, where I’ll be giving a talk on research with @joannad-c.bsky.social and César Palacios-González on respect for the wishes of the dead. @socphilpsych.bsky.social #philsky #psysky

04.06.2025 19:47 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Authorship Rates in Four Elite Philosophy Journals (Past Two Years): Women 46 authorships; Men 243 authorships; Nonbinary/unclassified 2 authorships. Percent women: 16%

Over the past two years, only 16% of authors in the most elite philosophy journals have been women. Link to full post with details in comments.

26.04.2025 16:34 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Super excited for our lab @philmoralpsych.bsky.social to be hosting a talk by the brilliant @jimaceverett.bsky.social today on his group's latest work on moral reasoning and AI 👇

24.04.2025 08:14 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Tinker Tots

Recently, we launched Tinker Tots (tinker-tots.net) — a platform where people can reflect on how they make decisions based on embryo attributes.
Coincidentally, the @nytimes.com published a 3-part series on polygenic embryo screening the same day
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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17.04.2025 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

https://osf.io/63d8s

Understanding #consent on a deeper level: Joanna Demaree-Cotton, #research fellow at the UOI, explores what all 'yes' can mean in this new paper in collaboration with scholars from #Yale and #UMichigan. Read here: t.co/Iqu2cnMWPh

#PhilosophyMatters #ethics #practicalethics

28.02.2025 16:09 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0