Workshop on Experimental Philosophy

In addition to Dave Chalmers's conference at ANU, "Experimental Philosophy meets Conceptual Analysis," Jussi Haukioja is organizing a one-day workshop on experimental philosophy at the University of Turku in Finland.

It will take place August, 16, 2007 and the speakers will be:
Daniel Cohnitz (Tartu, Estonia)
Jussi Jylkkä (Turku, Finland)
Antti Kauppinen (Helsinki, Finland)
Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh)

For further information, contact Jussi Haukioja.

Edouard 

Comments

[tnadelhoffer]

Traveling to Finland for a one-day workshop seems like a helluva commute. Is it too late for the organizers to invite a few more people and turn it into a multi-day workshop instead? I have another question as well: It is well-known that Kauppinen is no friend of experimental philosophy (even if he is at least willing to take it seriously enough to read and criticize our work carefully), but what about Cohnitz and Jylkkä? Are they friends or foes? Certainly this shouldn't be a "pick on Edouard" workshop!

[Edouard Machery]

Thomas,

I can't really speak for Jussi. This might well be possible... You should e-mail Jussi.

I hope the meeting will not turn into a trench war between the proponents and the opponents of experimental philosophy.

Rather, I hope we'll have a positive discussion of some recent works in experimental philosophy (including mine) as well as a discussion about the ways and contexts in which experimental methods can be useful in philosophy. This would be more fruitful.

[Jussi Haukioja]

The workshop is certainly not planned as a "pick on Edouard" event! The speakers have been invited in the hope that a wide range of positions will be represented: Machery and Kauppinen representing the extremes, and Cohnitz and Jylkkä somewhere in between (my expectation being that Cohnitz is more of a foe and Jylkkä more of a friend of experimental philosophy, but we'll see).

I'm afraid it is too late to turn this into a larger event. The whole thing was put together on very short notice (after the idea came up about a month ago), and for various reasons we wanted to do it quickly, before the end of the summer. Finding just one day to suit everyone turned out to be a challenge.

[Antti Kauppinen]

I was planning to pick mostly on Nadelhoffer, Nahmias, and Knobe... It would be great to have you there, Thomas, if you can secure funding somehow! Besides, my infallible a priori intuition tells me there is no better place on this planet than some sauna by a cool lake in Finland on a warm August night.

I hope I have time to come up with genuinely new things to say - the workshop is very soon, and as of today, it looks like I'll be teaching at St. Andrews next year. Preparing for the move will take some time and energy.

[tnadelhoffer]

Jussi,

My comments about the "pick on Edouard x-phi work shop" were supposed to be tongue in cheek. Antti and I have been productively picking on one another about experimental philosophy since 2004--when we were both at FSU. I am just sorry I can't play along with you guys at the workshop. As it stands, I will be Cambridge (MA) talking about some new data I have collected on second person/third person asymmetries in folk moral judgments--but more on that later!

Antti,

Congrats on the St. Andrews stint. It is well deserved. Can we take that to mean that you finally finished your dissertation?! Either way, I have been talking to the folks here at Dickinson about organizing a similar conference sometime next spring. If I do, perhaps you'd be able to play along. Your critical voice is always welcome in these circles--even if it is somewhat muted by the armchair that binds you!

[Daniel Cohnitz]

I actually very much doubt that this is going to be a trench war between the proponents and the opponents of experimental philosophy. I will, indeed, say something critical (how surprising in a philosophy workshop), but certainly not about experimental philosophy in general.