The "One, but not the same" results that we detected in English speakers (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01739-5) replicated 6 times in Lithuanian speakers (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105545).

When people read about morally altered people being "different, they [thought] the person [wa]s qualitatively transformed, but numerically intact."

#ExperimentalPhilosophy #xPhi #Philosophy #PhilMind #PersonalIdentity #QuantPsych #DecisionScience #CogSci #psychometrics #Linguistics #CrossCulturalResearch 

There's a #debate in #ExperimentalPhilosophy (#xPhi) about whether #intuitions about philosophical thought experiments are "stable" (vs. manipulable).

Some (e.g., @xphilosophy) seem convinced of stability—e.g., because some replications of instability results and new experiments find #pValues > 0.05.

Alexander & @jonweinberg express a different view (https://philpapers.org/rec/ALEPMP). I agree that the debate needs parties to agree on a smallest effect size of interest.

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@alexbryant @philosophy also supervised an honours thesis that was early #ExperimentalPhilosophy of logic/language that made it into Mind & Language https://philpapers.org/rec/SERVLA

Time for #introduction!

I am an #academic working in #philosophy and #cognitivescience . I've done work on #imagination, #language, and #experimentalphilosophy . However, my most recent research project is on objects and spaces where #cognition meets #oppression, especially #racism.

Here are some recent things I've (co-)written that I like:

[academic] https://philpapers.org/rec/LIAMOI

[popular] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/09/opinion/were-using-word-racist-just-fine-thanks/

(I also care a lot about #Taiwan but I do that on another account: @liaoshenyi)