Joshua Knobe Thought Experiment
In “Thought Experiments” from Scientific America in November 2011, Joshua Knobe evaluates a number of scientific experiments on the nature of free will conducted by experimental philosophers. Knobe analyses studies of how a person feels and thinks, a very insightful question in philosophy, to get a better understanding of peoples beliefs in free will and how people views can be relative or…if a person can be morally responsible under circumstances.
“Thought experiments” merges information and evidence from four different experiments to determine and analyses the…
Experimental philosopher Shaun Nichols from the University of Arizona and Joshua Knobe reflects on how abstract theoretical reflections make us think differently than our immediate …show more content…
Experiment 2 conducted by Christine Weigel showed that imagining the situation happening in the future made people employ a different type of cognitive process which is more abstract… imagining the situation at a closer time gave the participants a more solid intuition. Their intuitions were changed by the manipulation of adding a time area. This concluded that people say that a person can be morally responsible in a deterministic universe if they were asked to imagine the situation happening in a more recent date than a distant date. Experiment 3 done by Edward T. Coley and Adam Feltz…the final experiment conducted by Geoffrey Goodwin and John Darley showed that the ones who would likely offer relative answers were the ones that got the question right.
A series of different studies conducted by different researchers with different methods but in the end all have similar conclusions pointing towards the same characteristic: people that open themselves to other perspectives are more drawn to relativism. The research conducted by all the researchers has given us a better understanding of a person’s beliefs and morals from their cognitive
“Thought experiments” merges information and evidence from four different experiments to determine and analyses the…
Experimental philosopher Shaun Nichols from the University of Arizona and Joshua Knobe reflects on how abstract theoretical reflections make us think differently than our immediate …show more content…
Experiment 2 conducted by Christine Weigel showed that imagining the situation happening in the future made people employ a different type of cognitive process which is more abstract… imagining the situation at a closer time gave the participants a more solid intuition. Their intuitions were changed by the manipulation of adding a time area. This concluded that people say that a person can be morally responsible in a deterministic universe if they were asked to imagine the situation happening in a more recent date than a distant date. Experiment 3 done by Edward T. Coley and Adam Feltz…the final experiment conducted by Geoffrey Goodwin and John Darley showed that the ones who would likely offer relative answers were the ones that got the question right.
A series of different studies conducted by different researchers with different methods but in the end all have similar conclusions pointing towards the same characteristic: people that open themselves to other perspectives are more drawn to relativism. The research conducted by all the researchers has given us a better understanding of a person’s beliefs and morals from their cognitive