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Online Experiments
Participate in a series of online experiments on the concept of intentional action.
Edited Volume
Papers on Intention and Intentional Action
These papers form a pretty unified research program. For a brief
introduction, see Knobe (2003a)
(written for an audience of analytic philosophers) or
Knobe (2005) (written for an audience
of cognitive scientists).
For a summary and review of all the papers listed here, see Knobe (2006).
Knobe,J. (2005). Theory of Mind and Moral Cognition: Exploring the Connections. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 357-359.
Knobe, J. (2003a). Intentional Action and Side Effects in Ordinary Language. Analysis, 63, 190-193.
Knobe, J. (2006). The Concept of Intentional Action: A Case Study in the Uses of Folk Psychology. Philosophical Studies. 130: 203-231.
Pettit, D. & Knobe, J. (forthcoming). The Pervasive Impact of Moral Judgment. Mind & Language.
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D., Knobe, J. & Bloom, P.
(forthcoming).
Disgust Sensitivity Predicts Intuitive Disapproval of Gays.
Emotion.
| Uses intuitions about intentional action as an implicit measure of moral judgment and thereby demonstrates that people who are high in disgust sensitivity show an implicit disapproval of gay sex. |
Knobe, J. (2004). Intention, Intentional Action and Moral Considerations. Analysis, 64, 181-187.
Leslie, A., Knobe, J. & Cohen, A. (2006). Acting intentionally and the side-effect effect: 'Theory of mind' and moral judgment. Psychological Science, 17, 421-427.
Knobe, J. (2004). Folk Psychology and Folk Morality: Response to Critics. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 24.
Knobe, J. (2003b). Intentional Action in Folk Psychology: An Experimental Investigation. Philosophical Psychology, 16, 309-324.
Knobe, J. and Burra, A. (2006). Intention and Intentional Action: A Cross-Cultural Study Journal of Culture and Cognition, 6, 113-132.
Knobe, J. and Burra, A. (2006). Experimental Philosophy and Folk Concepts: Methodological Considerations. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6, 331-342. [A reply to comments from Alfred Mele, Fred Adams, Gilbert Harman, Adam Morton, Liane Young et al. and Charles Kalish]
Knobe, J. & Mendlow, G. (2004). The
Good, the
Bad and the Blameworthy: Understanding the Role of Evaluative Reasoning
in Folk Psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical
Psychology, 24, 252-258.
Malle, B. F. & Knobe, J. (1997). The Folk Concept of Intentionality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 33, 101-121.
Reprinted in W. Lesko (ed.) Readings in Social Psychology: General, Classic and Contemporary Selections. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Malle, B. F. & Knobe, J. (2001) The Distinction between Desire and Intention: A Folk-Conceptual Analysis. In B. F. Malle, L. J. Moses, & D. A. Baldwin (Eds.), Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Papers on Causation
Hitchcock, C. & Knobe, J. (forthcoming). Cause and Norm. Journal of Philosophy.
Knobe, J. (forthcoming).Folk Judgments of Causation. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. [For a symposium on experimental philosophy.]
Knobe, J. & Fraser, B. (2008). Causal Judgment and Moral Judgment: Two Experiments. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong, Moral Psychology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 441-448.
Cushman, F., Knobe, J. & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (forthcoming). Moral Appraisals Affect Doing/Allowing Judgments. Cognition.
Knobe, Joshua. (2005). Cognitive Processes Shaped by the Impulse to Blame. Brooklyn Law Review, 71, 929-937.
Papers on Moral Responsibility
Nichols, S. & Knobe, J. (2007).
Moral
Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk
Intuitions.
Nous, 41, 663-685.
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An empirical study of people's intuitions about
freedom of the will. We show that people tend to have compatiblist
intuitions when they think about the problem in a more concrete,
emotional way but that they tend to have incompatiblist intuitions when
they think about the problem in a more abstract, cognitive way.
For responses to this paper, see Robert Kane (2005), Eddy Nahmias (2006), Adina Roskies (2006), Ernest Sosa (forthcoming) and Manuel Vargas (2006) |
Sarkissian, H., Chatterjee, A., De Brigard, F., Knobe, J., Nichols, S. & Sirker, S. (forthcoming). Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal? Mind & Language.
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Subjects from India, Hong Kong, Colombia, and the United States were asked for their views about the problem of free will. Within all four cultures, the majority of subjects said that (1) our universe is not deterministic and (2) no one can be morally responsible in a deterministic universe. These results suggest that some widely-shared feature of human cognition might be leading people of many different cultures to arrive at the very same views about free will. |
Joshua Knobe and John Doris.
Strawsonian Variations:
Folk Morality and the Search for a Unified Theory.
Draft of a paper to appear in J. Doris et al. The Handbook of
Moral Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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A great deal of fascinating research has gone into an attempt to uncover the fundamental criteria that people use when assigning moral responsibility. Nonetheless, it seems that most existing accounts fall prey to one counterexample or another. The underlying problem, we suggest, is that there simply isn't any single system of criteria that people apply in all cases of responsibility attribution. Instead, it appears that people use quite different criteria in different kinds of cases. |
Other Papers on Folk Psychology
Joshua Knobe and Jesse Prinz. (forthcoming). Intuitions about Consciousness: Experimental Studies. Phenomenology and Cognitive Science.
Knobe, J. (forthcoming). Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness. Scientific American: Mind.
Knobe, J. (2007). Reason Explanation in Folk Psychology. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 31, 90-107.
Knobe, J. & Roedder, E. (forthcoming). The Ordinary Concept of Valuing. Philosophical Issues.
Knobe, J. (2007). Folk Psychology: Science and Morals. In Hutto, D. & Ratcliffe, M. (ed.) Folk Psychology Reassessed. Kluwer/Springer Press. 157-174.
Other Philosophical Publications
Knobe, J & Leiter, B. (2007)
The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology
In Nietzsche and Morality Brian Leiter and Neil Sinhababu (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
83-109.
(To download the paper, follow the link and then click on one of the images at the bottom of the page.)
Knobe, J. (2009). Answers to Five Questions. In Aguilar, J & Buckareff, A (eds.) Philosophy of Action: 5 Questions. London: Automatic Press.
Knobe, J., Olum, K. & Vilenkin, A. (2006). Philosophical Implications of Inflationary Cosmology. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 57, 47-67.
Knobe, J. (2005). Ordinary Ethical Reasoning and the Ideal of 'Being Yourself.' Philosophical Psychology, 18, 327-340.
Knobe, J. (2004). What Is Experimental Philosophy? The Philosophers' Magazine., 28.
Phillips, J. & Knobe, J. (2009). Moral Judgments and Intutitions about Freedom. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 30-36.
Knobe, J. (2007). Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Significance. Philosophical Explorations, 10: 119-122.
Papers on Folk Explanations of Behavior
These papers present a theory about how people ordinarily explain behavior. For a relatively accessible introduction, see Knobe and Malle (2002).
Knobe, J. & Malle, B. F. (2002). Self and Other in the Explanation of Behavior. Psychologica Belgica, 42, 113-130.
Malle, B.F., Knobe, J. & Nelson, S. (2007). Actor-Observer Asymmetries in Explanations of Behavior: New Answers to an Old Question. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 93, 491-514.
Malle, B. F., Knobe, J., O’Laughlin, M., Pearce, G., & Nelson, S. (2000). Conceptual Structure and Social Functions of Behavior Explanations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 309-326.
Malle, B. F. & Knobe, J. (1997) Which Behaviors Do People Explain? A Basic Actor-Observer Asymmetry. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 288-304.
Reviews
Shaun Nichols. Sentimental Rules (Oxford University Press, 2004), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.
Johannes Roessler and Naomi Eilan (ed.) Agency and Self-Awareness (Oxford University Press, 2003), Philosophical Psychology, forthcoming.
Responses to my work
Fred Adams and Annie Steadman. (2004). Intentional Action in Ordinary Language: Core Concept or Pragmatic Understanding? Analysis, 64, 173-181.
Fred Adams and Annie Steadman. (2004). Intentional Action and Moral Considerations: Still Pragmatic. Analysis, 64, 268-276.
Mark Alicke. (forthcoming). Blaming Badly. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Edward Cokely and Adam Feltz. (forthcoming). Individual Differences, Judgment Biases, and Theory-of-Mind: Deconstructing the Intentional Action Side Effect Asymmetry. Research in Personality.
Adam Feltz (2008). The Knobe Effect: A Brief Overview. Journal of Mind and Behavior. 28: 265-278.
Adam Feltz and Edward Cokely. (2007). An Anomaly in Intentional Action Ascription: More Evidence of Folk Diversity. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.
Chad Gonnerman. (2008).Reading Conflicted Minds: An Empirical Follow-up to Knobe and Roedder. Philosophical Psychology, 21: 1-13.
Gilbert Harman. (2006). Intending, Intention, Intent, Intentional Action, and Acting Intentionally: Comments on Knobe and Burra. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6, 269-276.
F.A. Hindriks. (forthcoming). Intentional Action and the Praise-Blame Asymmetry. Philosophical Quarterly.
Antti Kauppinen. (2007). The Rise and Fall of Experimental Philosophy. Philosophical Explorations, 10: 95-118.
Bertram Malle. The Moral Dimension of Intentionality Judgments. Technical Reports of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, No. 04-2, Eugene, Oregon.
Bertram Malle. (2006). Intentionality, Morality, and their Relationship in Human Judgment. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6, 87-113.
Edouard Machery. (forthcoming). Understanding the Folk Concept of Intentional Action: Philosophical and Experimental Issues. Mind and Language.
Reply: Mark Phelan and Hagop Sarkissian (2009) Is the Trade-off Hypothesis Worth Trading For? Mind & Language. 24, 164-180.
Ron Mallon. (2009) Knobe vs. Machery: Testing the Trade-Off Hypothesis. Mind & Language. 23, 246-255.
Hugh McCann. (2005). Intentional Action and Intending: Recent Empirical Studies. Philosophical Psychology, 18, 737-748.
Roblin
Meeks. (2004). Unintentionally Biasing the Data: Reply to
Knobe. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 24,
220-223.
Alfred Mele. Acting Intentionally: Probing Folk Notions. In B. F. Malle, L. J. Moses, & D. A. Baldwin (Eds.), Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Alfred Mele. (2003). Intentional Action: Controversies, Data, and Core Hypotheses. Philosophical Psychology, 16, 325-340.
Jennifer Nado Effects of Moral Cognition on Judgments of Intentionality. Conditionally accepted at British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Bence Nanay. (forthcoming). Morality or Modality? What Does the Attribution of Intentionality Depend On? Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Dana Nelkin. Do We Have a Coherent Set of Intuitions About Moral Responsibility? Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 31, 243-259.
Shaun Nichols and Joseph Ulatowski. (2007). Intuitions and Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited. Mind and Language, 22: 346-365.
Mark Phelan and Hagop Sarkissian. (2008). The Folk Strike Back; Or, Why You Didn’t Do It Intentionally, Though It Was Bad and You Knew It. Philosophical Studies. 138, 291-298.
Ángel Pinillos et al. Philosophy's New Challenge: Experiments and Intentional Action.
Craig Roxborough and Jill Cumby. (forthcoming). Folk Psychological Concepts: Causation. Philosophical Psychology.
Lawrence Solan.
(forthcoming).
Where Does Blaming Come From?
Brooklyn Law Review.
(To download the paper, follow the link and then click on one of the images at the bottom of the page.)
Chandra Sripada . The “Deep Self” Model and asymmetries in folk judgments about intentionality and responsibility.
Annie Steadman and Fred Adams. Folk Concepts, Surveys and Intentional Action. Proceedings of the international conference “Intentionality, deliberation and autonomy – the action theoretic basis of practical philosophy” Sienna, Italy.
Steven Sverdlik. (2004). Intentionality and Moral Judgments in Commonsense Thought about Action. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology,24, 224-236.
Justin Sytsma and Edouard Machery. (forthcoming). How to Study Folk Intuitions about Consciousness. Philosophical Psychology.
Jason Turner. (2004). Folk Intuitions, Asymmetry, and Intentional Side Effects. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology,24, 214-219.
Eric Wiland. (2007). Intentional Action and 'In Order To.' Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. 27, 113-118.
Jen Wright and John Bengson. (2009) Asymmetries in Folk Judgments of Responsibility and Intentional Action. Mind & Language, 24:1, 24-50.
Julie Yoo. (2004). Folk Psychology and Moral Evaluation. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology,24, 237-251.
Liane Young, Fiery Cushman, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, Marc Hauser. (2006). Does emotion mediate the effect of an action’s moral status on its intentional status? Neuropsychological evidence. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6, 291-304.
Links
[Doesn't have anything to do with me or my work; just a paper that I find extremely profound and worth reading.]