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Do Babies Judge By Voices Or Faces?

This is an important issue, when infants are increasingly maturing in multilingual environments, and parents are making decisions on education based on theories about human social reasoning. According… more →

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Do Babies Judge By Voices Or Faces?

Hume's Bastard wrote 1 week ago: This is an important issue, when infants are increasingly maturing in multilingual environments, and … more →

Tags: Education, social science, BHTV, Linguistics, katherine kinzler, languages, Early Childhood, Speech Recognition

Homer the homeless goose and Blackland neighborhood - an oral history tribute

John Henneberger wrote 2 months ago: Happy 25th birthday Homer! via Ball: Homer the homeless goose celebrates 25th birthday,… | www … more →

Tags: local issues, activities, Austin, Homeless, John Henneberger, Home the Homeless Goose, Blackland, Blackland Neighborhood Development Corporation, Homelessness

Missing The Elephant

Hume's Bastard wrote 4 months ago: Would you steal candy or a soda from the store if you knew you could get away with it? One experimen … more →

Tags: Academia, social science, BHTV, Atheism, Evolution, Michael Shermer, ara norenzayan, relgion

Hidden moral judgement

backyardbooks wrote 6 months ago: “It seems that our whole way of thinking about phenomena that appear to lie outside the bounds … more →

Tags: Metaphors and Narratives around children and learners, Images of Parent Child and Expert, social and political contexts, Morality

Gaming Cooperation

Hume's Bastard wrote 7 months ago: Humans are both competitive – indeed, combative and violent – and cooperative social ani … more →

Tags: Academia, social science, BHTV, Cooperation, Game Theory, David G. Rand

The Well Read Man: A Metaphysical Paradox (Part 3, Finale)

midatlanticcooking wrote 7 months ago: It was the political and social sciences that I fist discovered, but I soon tired of their idealism … more →

Tags: Stories, Novels, Chapters, Short Stories, Humor, Science Fiction, Fantasy, united states, human

Considering Personal Identity — 2 comments

egcheng wrote 2 years ago: Who are we? Do we live by our values or our inner, often baser nature? Dr. Joshua Knobe explores wha … more →

Tags: Life, The New York Times, Society, identity, Person, Self

Waking up to morality — 9 comments

Ken wrote 2 years ago: I have come to the conclusion that a lot of what is said and written about morality is rubbish. So I … more →

Tags: Religion, Belief, Theology, Philosophy, Science and Society, SciBlogs, New Scientist, Peter Singer, Harvard University

What is a Person?

Ned Resnikoff wrote 2 years ago: That’s the question I set out to answer in my latest Salon column, which plays off of Adam … more →

Tags: Civil Liberties, Philosophy, Jean Paul Sartre, American Prospect, Human Rights and Liberties, adam serwer, Neil Sinhababu

The State of Philosophy

manwithoutqualities wrote 2 years ago: Joshua Knobe, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Tim Maudlin, Timothy Williamson, Brian Leiter, and Ernie Sosa di … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Timothy Williamson, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Tim Maudlin, Brian Leiter

CEO's can only intend to be Bad! — 1 comment

Chris Kavanagh wrote 3 years ago: Take a look at the following video and try out the short task involved and then click below for the … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Theory of mind, experimental philosophy, Moral cognition, Intentionality

A System-Justification Primer

The Situationist Staff wrote 3 years ago: Here is a worthwhile Blogging Heads clip in which Josh Knobe interviews Situationist Contributor Joh … more →

Tags: Ideology, System Legitimacy, Video, John Jost, System Justification