Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy
On Experimental Philosophy (OEP)
We will meet every other Monday from 15h to 17h, starting February 7th
Tentative list of topics and readings
We will start with a couple of papers on aesthetics and the ontology of art, which are connected to metaphysical issues to be discussed in subsequent sessions (persistence of objects and personal identity):
- The Aesthetic Self. The Importance of Aesthetic Taste in Music and Art for Our Perceived Identity. Joerg Fingerhut, Javier Gomez-Lavin, Claudia Winklmayr & Jesse J. Prinz - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.
- The Role of Teleological Thinking in Judgments of Persistence of Musical Works. Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė & Vilius Dranseika - forthcoming - The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Then a few papers in metaphysics, from this list:
- Intuitions About Objects: From Teleology to Elimination. David Mark Kovacs - forthcoming - Mind:fzz071.
- Folk teleology drives persistence judgments. David Rose, Jonathan Schaffer & Kevin Tobia - 2020 - Synthese 197 (12):5491-5509.
- One -- But Not the Same. John Schwenkler, Nick Byrd, Enoch Lambert & Matthew Taylor - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies.
- Personal Identity and Dual Character Concepts. Joshua Knobe - forthcoming - In Kevin Tobia (ed.), Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self. Bloomsbury.
- Memory as Evidence of Personal Identity. A Study on Reincarnation Beliefs, Vilius Dranseika - forthcoming - In Kevin Tobia (ed.), Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self. Bloomsbury.
Finally two or three pieces on consciousness:
- Díaz, Rodrigo (2021): Do People Think Consciousness Poses a Hard Problem?: Empirical Evidence on the Meta-Problem of Consciousness.- Journal of Consciousness Studies 28 (3-4):55-75.
- Fischer, Eugen & Sytsma, Justin (forthcoming): Zombie Intuitions. Cognition.
- Sytsma, J. & Ozdemir, E.(2019). No Problem: Evidence that the Concept of Phenomenal Consciousness is Not Widespread. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26 (9-10):241-256.
