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Experimental Philosophy http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/ en-US 2014-02-10T19:18:18-05:00 2nd CFP: Second Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2014/02/2n.html Note: new deadline! (March 15th) I am pleased to announce this call-for-papers for the Second Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference (PCPC), which I have tentatively scheduled to occur at the University of Tampa on Saturday July 19 through Sunday July...
Note: new deadline! (March 15th)

I am pleased to announce this call-for-papers for the Second Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference (PCPC), which I have tentatively scheduled to occur at the University of Tampa on Saturday July 19 through Sunday July 20th, 2014. As was the case at this year's conference, the Second Annual PCPC will be unique in several respects:

Although attendance at the conference and participating as session chairs or commentators will be open to all members of the profession, paper presenters must be early-career philosophers -- basically, anyone who doesn't have tenure (e.g. graduate students, post-docs, VAP, TT Assistant Profs, independent scholars, etc.)

Due to the kinds of travel-funding issues that early-career philosophers often face, several paper sessions (the exact number of which will be determined later) will be reserved for Skype presentations in which the author will be projected, and field audience questions, in real time over the internet (these went very well this year!).

Although commentators and audience members are encouraged to present objections to papers, a guiding aim of the conference will beconstructive criticism, i.e. helping authors to improve problems (e.g. by not only raising objections, but offering and discussing possible solutions).

Because successfully navigating the publishing world is one of the most difficult capacities for early-career philosophers to develop, and typical conference-length papers are too short (3,000 words) to publish, we will welcome submissions the length of any typical journal article (20-30 pages double-spaced) -- the aim being to help early-career philosophers develop full-length papers into publishable quality. As a rule of thumb, the longer the paper, the higher the standards for acceptance to the conference. Extremely long papers are discouraged.

In order to defray costs of attendance (once again out of concern for the needs of early-career scholars), there will be no registration fee, and consequently no official banquet, snacks, etc. Tampa is awesome, and there are many affordable places to meet, eat, and congregate around the university.

It would be great to have some experimental philosophy talks. I hope to stream all talks live via the internet and, if time permits, take some audience questions from internet viewers by email.

To submit a paper to present at the PCPC, please email the following to email@example.com by MARCH 15th, 2014: (1) a blinded (i.e. anonymized) paper, (2) a separate title page with the author's name, contract information, and brief paper abstract, and (3) a statement concerning whether you intend to attend the conference in person or only via Skype.

Decision emails indicating whether your paper has been accepted should be sent out around May, 2014. Finally, please bear the following in mind: In order to ensure that the conference is well-attended, there will be relatively few Skype sessions -- so the probability that your paper will be accepted is higher should you state in your submission email that you can attend in person.  Submission of a paper comprises a tacit agreement to serve as a commentator or session chair should your paper be accepted and you accept the invitation to present.
 Marcus Arvan 2014-02-10T19:18:18-05:00 Speaking Well of the Dead: Maps of Human Values http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2014/01/speaking-well-of-the-dead-maps-of-human-values.html Just a quick note to let y'all know that, together with Andrew Higgins and Jacob Levernier, I've started to map human values by data-mining obituaries. The basic idea is to display networks of the traits and other good-making features attributed...
Just a quick note to let y'all know that, together with Andrew Higgins and Jacob Levernier, I've started to map human values by data-mining obituaries.  The basic idea is to display networks of the traits and other good-making features attributed to people in their obituaries.  Here's an example, based on obituaries from Eugene, Oregon:

The size of the words indicates the number of other words that co-occurred with them in a single obituary. The thickness and brightness of the edge connecting a pair of terms indicates how many times those terms co-occurred. Terms that share their color grouped together in much the same way that items in a factor analysis group together: they tend to co-occur with each other and not with other terms.  The pink and light-blue groups are probably too small to interpret, but the others seem to meaningful.  For instance, the green group is centered on humor and agreeableness.  The red group seems to be mostly a matter of political liberalism.  And the dark-blue group seems to be about commitment to the local community.

I'll be putting up more of these and discussing them at my blog.
 Ethics Philosophy of Language Mark Alfano 2014-01-27T21:26:12-05:00 Abstract/concrete effects: Paradoxical, or principled? http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/09/abstractconcrete-effects-paradoxical-or-principled.html In a paper I'm preparing, I argue that concrete moral details may influence judgments of moral responsibility in determinist circumstances through processes that are neither errant nor affective (Sorry, Shaun and Josh!). I tested a competing hypothesis—that ordinary judgments of...
In a paper I'm preparing, I argue that concrete moral details may influence judgments of moral responsibility in determinist circumstances through processes that are neither errant nor affective (Sorry, Shaun and Josh!). I tested a competing hypothesis—that ordinary judgments of moral responsibility vary in large part due to cognitive, effable differences in usage and conception—by providing 116 undergraduates with an abstract compatibilist case and asking them to evaluate moral responsibility, and then also asking them the extent to which the criminal's level of moral responsibility would depend on the nature of the crime.

I was frankly surprised by just how strongly the evidence favored of this dependence recognition principle (DRC). Half of the variance in attributions of moral responsibility (r2 = .582) could be explained by individual differences in attitude toward the DRC. Those who thought moral responsibility to be "extremely dependent" or "absolutely dependent" on the nature of a crime attributed just as much moral responsibility for abstract cases (M = 6.07) as those in a contrastive group of 114 participants given a concrete case (M = 6.54), adapted from this gorgeous and fascinating story in the New Yorker (which is way more interesting than this here blog post, trust me). Meanwhile, respondents who thought moral responsibility was "not at all" or "a little" dependent on the nature of a crime gave the incompatibilist responses to the abstract moral crime we have come to think of as typical (M = 2.30).

 I think any interpretation of these results should acknowledge concerns about ceiling effects and sample size, and I would not be surprised if there were be a small but significant effect with a larger sample. But there was enough power to reveal that whatever variance abstract/concrete effects the DRC is incapable of explaining, it is far less than the variance that can be explained by DRC—at least, in this one case. I am very interested in whatever critical feedback analytic philosophers, experimental philosophers, and psychologists might be able to provide. I see several shortcomings in this initial exploration, but I'm sure there are many more I have missed—and maybe even a few positives I missed, too! So, I'd love your comments, no matter how complex or how blunt.
 Ethics Free will Geoff Holtzman 2013-09-06T17:07:16-04:00 Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action - Provisional Programme http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/08/experimental-philosophy-philosophy-of-mind-and-action-provisional-programme.html The provisional programme for the 4th Workshop of Experimental Philosophy Group UK is now available on our website: http://sites.google.com/site/experimentalphilosophygroupuk/fourth-workshop There are also a few Analysis Trust student bursaries available - these offer up to 50% of the cost of registration...
The provisional programme for the 4th Workshop of Experimental Philosophy Group UK is now available on our website:  http://sites.google.com/site/experimentalphilosophygroupuk/fourth-workshop

There are also a few Analysis Trust student bursaries available - these offer up to 50% of the cost of registration and accommodation.  Email email@example.com, giving your name, affiliation and the cost of your accommodation, and register here: http://shop.bris.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=661 to apply for a bursary.

Registration will close on 5 September at the latest.

This event is a BIRTHA Conference, and we are grateful to the University of Bristol, the Mind Association and the Analysis Trust for their support.
 Conferences Bryony Pierce 2013-08-21T17:55:51-04:00 Weakness and Strength of Will http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/08/wea.html
Dear all, I'm posting an article of mine with Carlos Mauro that is forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology and that may be of interest to many of you. Comments are very welcome. Here is the title and abstract:

The Evaluative Nature of the Folk Concepts of Weakness and Strength of Will
 This article examines the evaluative nature of the folk concepts of weakness and strength of will and hypothesizes that their evaluative nature is strongly connected to the folk concepts of blame and credit. We probed how people apply the concepts of weakness and strength of will to prototypical and non-prototypical scenarios. While regarding prototypical scenarios the great majority applied these concepts according to the predictions following from traditional philosophical analyses, when presented with non-prototypical scenarios, people were divided. Some, against traditional analyses, did not apply these concepts, which we explain in terms of a clash of evaluations involving different sorts of blame and credit. Others applied them according to traditional analyses, which we explain in terms of a disposition to be reflective and clearly set apart the different sorts of blame and credit involved. Still others applied them in an inverse way, seemingly bypassing the traditional components resolution and best judgment, which we explain in terms of a reinterpretation of the scenarios driven by an assumption that everyone knows deep inside that the best thing to do is to act morally. This division notwithstanding, we claim that our results are largely supportive of traditional analyses (qua analyses of folk concepts). Paulo Sousa 2013-08-17T08:07:52-04:00 In with the new... http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/08/in-with.html Dear All, As I announced recently, Experimental Philosophy is moving to its new location as of today: http://philosophycommons.typepad.com/xphi/ So, I am delighted to announce that things are now officially up and running at the new site! Please update your bookmarks...
Dear All,

As I announced recently, Experimental Philosophy is moving to its new location as of today:

http://philosophycommons.typepad.com/xphi/

So, I am delighted to announce that things are now officially up and running at the new site!  Please update your bookmarks accordingly and then go join the fray.  Because I have already imported most of the old content into the new blog, I am only going to leave the old blog open for another month or so.  In one more week, all of the discussion threads here at the old blog will be closed for comments.  So, if you have a point you've been dying to make, now's your chance!

That's it for now. Please help me spread the word that Experimental has moved!  Thanks in advance for your continued support.

p.s.  Some readers might be interested in some other online projects I am presently working to develop.  Interested parties can find more information here.

Cheers,

Thomas
 tnadelhoffer 2013-08-01T14:24:31-04:00 Experimental Philosophy is moving to a new location! http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/07/experimental-philosophy-is-moving-to-a-new-location.html Dear readers and contributors, All the way back on June 9, 2004, I officially launched the Experimental Philosophy blog with the following introductory post: A number of philosophers have recently begun relying on methods borrowed from social psychology to probe...
Dear readers and contributors,

All the way back on June 9, 2004, I officially launched the Experimental Philosophy blog with the following introductory post:

A number of philosophers have recently begun relying on methods borrowed from social psychology to probe folk intuitions in an attempt to shed new light on old philosophical problems.  This research program--sometimes called either "experimental" or "empirically informed" philosophy--has produced some interesting and important data in action theory (e.g. Knobe, Malle, Mele, Nadelhoffer), epistemology (e.g. Nichols, Stich), ethics (e.g. Doris, Stich), the free will debate (e.g. Morris, Nadelhoffer, Nahmias, Nichols, Turner) and legal theory (e.g. Malle, Nadelhoffer). Hopefully, this blog will foster cooperation among the legal theorists, philosophers, and psychologists working in these areas.  Minimally, this site should serve as a forum where scholars interested in interdisciplinary research can discuss and present new ideas, data, and problems.

At the time, there were only a handful of contributors and the movement itself was in its infancy. But all of that was soon to change.  During the past nine years, this blog has grown to include over 12o contributors from around the world as the popularity of experimental philosophy has continued to spread. Consequently, we recently passed 1,000,000 page views here at Experimental Philosophy (with an average of 300 visits per day).  There have also been 900+ posts and 4,000+ comments.

In short, the blog has far exceeded my expectations.  Indeed, it has been a privildge to watch our online community grow along with the exciting field many of us call our intellectual home.  But I nevertheless think that more could be done to improve the blog.

One major change that is about to take place is that the blog will be moving to the following new address:

Experimental Philosophy

http://philosophycommons.typepad.com/xphi/

In addition to a new look, I will be adding some additional features to the blog  in the months to come.  I am currently in the process of consolodating all of my blogs under a single domain to make it easier for me to manage--which will be especially important given some of the online projects I am working to get up and running (see here for the details).

Starting August 1st, no one will be able to post or comment any longer here on the "old" Experimental Philosophy blog.  All new posts will begin appearing at the new location. So, please update your bookmarks and your blogrolls!  I apologize for the inconvenience, but trying to manage multiple blogs with different acounts is simply too inefficient moving forward.

Also, I do not plan to automatically invite everyone who is listed as a contributor on the old blog to be a contributor to the new blog.  There are simply too many emails to track down and send (especially when most of the listed contributors rarely post or comment).

So, if you were a contributor to the old blog and you'd like to be added as a contributor to the new blog, email me and I will happily send you an invitation.  The blog has always welcomed newcomers as well, so if you weren't a contibutor before but you'd like to contribute to the new enterprise, please let me know! We'd be happy to have you join the community!

Well, that's it for now.  I hope to see you all at the new location starting in August.  In the meantime, I just wanted to thank all of the contributors, readers, and researchers who have made it such a delight to do (and promote) experimental philosophy since this blog started nearly ten years ago. Hopefully, our best days are still ahead!

p.s.  While I have imported all of the content from the old blog to the new blog, lots of information is lamentably lost.  For instance, it's no longer possible to tell who wrote the older posts.  Fortunately, you can still tell who wrote the comments.  Once the new blog is up and running, we will once again be able to keep up with who authored the individual posts.  I apologize in advance for this limitation of Typepad's import/export software.

Best wishes,

Thomas Nadelhoffer

tnadelhoffer (at) gmail (dot) com

 tnadelhoffer 2013-07-25T18:08:00-04:00 Meskin et al. get a big blogospheric shout out http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/07/meskin-et-al-get-a-big-blogospheric-shout-out.html I am a big fan of the landmark x-aesthetics paper "Mere Exposure to Bad Art" by Aaron Meskin, Margaret Moore, Mark Phelan, and Matthew Kieran, was recently published online by the British Journal of Aesthetics (see here; see also earlier... I am a big fan of the landmark x-aesthetics paper "Mere Exposure to Bad Art" by Aaron Meskin, Margaret Moore, Mark Phelan, and Matthew Kieran, was recently published online by the British Journal of Aesthetics (see here; see also earlier discussion on our blog here).  And so I was very tickled to see that their work got picked up by one of the mainstream blogosphere's biggest bigwigs, Andrew Sullivan, at his blog, "The Dish"! X-Phi in the News Jonathan Weinberg 2013-07-22T19:31:46-04:00 Are top journals hostile to experimental work? http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/07/are-top-journals-are-hostile-to-experimental-work.html Brian Leiter raises the important question of whether the top general-interest philosophy journals are less likely to publish papers with experimental content than other sorts of papers. This is an important opportunity to weigh in about the prevelance of experimental...
Brian Leiter raises the important question of whether the top general-interest philosophy journals are less likely to publish papers with experimental content than other sorts of papers.  This is an important opportunity to weigh in about the prevelance of experimental work in such journals.  So, if you can comment on this, I encourage you to do so!  Click here.

I am also interested in people's thoughts about the prevelance of experimental work in other sorts of top journals.  For example, I am not sure that I have ever seen a paper with experimental results in Philosophy and Public Affairs (though, I could be wrong about this). What about other top tier journals in other mainstream areas?
 Meena Krishnamurthy 2013-07-22T11:43:31-04:00 The modest but real gender-effect on knowledge attributions http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/07/the-modest-but-real-gender-effect-on-knowledge-attributions.html It's great to see more good work on gender issues in the discipline of philosophy. It has been hit-or-miss finding a gender-effect on knowledge attributions. I have done my fair share of studies on knowledge attributions over the past year....
It's great to see more good work on gender issues in the discipline of philosophy.

It has been hit-or-miss finding a gender-effect on knowledge attributions. I have done my fair share of studies on knowledge attributions over the past year. Most of these have used dichotomous measures: over thirty experiments, with an average of over three conditions per experiment (differing by cover story), and over 5,000 participants in total. For a very small number of these, I didn't collect demographic information. The studies focused on cases relevant to a wide range of questions about knowledge, including Gettier cases, Fake Barn cases, factivity, perception, inference, lotteries, closure, moral valence, and others.

It has long been my impression of the data that women are more likely to attribute knowledge than men, even though the difference in any one study never reaches statistical significance. If there is a modest but real difference, my individual studies weren't powerful enough to detect it.

So I aggregated data for all knowledge attributions that I gathered gender demographics for. The result confirms the impression: there is a small but real gender difference, with women ascribing knowledge more often than men.

N = 4967 (M/F: 3014/1953)

Percent attributing knowledge (M/F): 62.8%, 67%

Fisher's exact test, p = .003, two-tailed, Cramer's V = .043.
 Epistemology Intuitions Studies & Surveys John Turri 2013-07-19T13:32:57-04:00 Relevant Posts http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/07/relevant-posts.html In case anyone is interested, I've been discussing some x-phi studies in posts at Flickers of Freedom, one about Dylan Murray and my bypassing results (which has garnered lots of challenging critiques) and one about new studies I've been doing...
In case anyone is interested, I've been discussing some x-phi studies in posts at Flickers of Freedom, one about Dylan Murray and my bypassing results (which has garnered lots of challenging critiques) and one about new studies I've been doing with Jason Shepard and Shane Reuter on people's responses to perfect prediction using a brain-scanner (and we are looking for some suggestions about what to try next).

And at Brains I have a post about my work with Toni Adleberg and Morgan Thompson discussing our responses to Buckwalter and Stich's paper on gender differences in intuitions about philosophical thought experiments.  We discuss our data showing that we were unable to replicate the gender differences they report and raise some other concerns.

I hope some of you will consider getting into the discussions.
 Eddy Nahmias 2013-07-17T12:50:28-04:00 Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action - Extended Deadline http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/07/experimental-philosophy-philosophy-of-mind-and-action-extended-deadline.html You now have until 19 July to submit an abstract for our 4th Workshop in Bristol (a BIRTHA Conference, supported by the University of Bristol, the Mind Association and the Analysis Trust), 12-13 September 2013. Further details in my last...
You now have until 19 July to submit an abstract for our 4th Workshop in Bristol (a BIRTHA Conference, supported by the University of Bristol, the Mind Association and the Analysis Trust), 12-13 September 2013.

Further details in my last post here (on 26 June) and at:

http://sites.google.com/site/experimentalphilosophygroupuk

Registration is open - book early be sure of getting a place!

(Submissions also welcome from those not based in the UK)

Apologies for the delay in announcing the extension on this blog - busy doing too many things at once!
 Conferences and Calls for Papers Bryony Pierce 2013-07-12T12:12:30-04:00 The final nail http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/07/the-final-nail.html Going back to at least G.E. Moore, philosophers have steadily built a strong case that the social practice of assertion is constituted by a knowledge norm: you should assert Q only if you know Q is true. As best I...
Going back to at least G.E. Moore, philosophers have steadily built a strong case that the social practice of assertion is constituted by a knowledge norm: you should assert Q only if you know Q is true. As best I can tell, this "knowledge account," as it's often called, is by now the best supported hypothesis in contemporary epistemology. It teaches us something deep and important about an absolutely central aspect of our lives as social beings. It's a hard-won discovery that illustrates philosophy's value, exemplifies genuine philosophical progress, and which we as a discipline can be proud of.

Whenever I explain the knowledge account as part of a presentation or in conversation, the primary -- indeed, pretty much the only -- objection I hear is that it's counterintuitive and, by way of illustration, purported counterexamples are adduced. The examples feature subjects who assert false but well justified beliefs. This is usually followed by the proposal that justified belief, not knowledge, is the norm of assertion. I'm also often told that this is the "ordinary" or "commonsense" view and that it's a foible of epistemologists to place knowledge, or anything other factive state, into that role.

In a new paper to appear in Cognition, I report a series of experimental studies which strongly suggest that these objections and examples do not reflect the commonsense view. Instead, just the opposite seems to be true: the ordinary view is that we should not assert false claims, even ones extremely well supported by the evidence. By contrast, asserting well justified true claims is perfectly fine.

Interestingly, it turns out that resistance to a factive account of assertion's norm is at least partly driven by a general psychological tendency that many people have to excuse blameless transgressions by (falsely) denying that any transgression has occurred.

(Unoriginal thought: norms of social practices seems to be an especially fruitful area of cross-fertilization among philosophy and the social and psychological sciences.)
 Epistemology Intuitions Philosophy of Language Studies & Surveys John Turri 2013-07-06T15:20:13-04:00 David Chalmers responding to Herman Cappelen on Intuitions http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/07/david-chalmers-responding-to-herman-cappelen-on-intuitions.html Readers may be interested in this new paper by David Chalmers responding to Herman Cappelen's argument in Philosophy Without Intuitions that contemporary analytic philosophers don't rely on intuitions as evidence for philosophical theories. Prereflectively at least, it might have seemed...
Readers may be interested in this new paper by David Chalmers responding to Herman Cappelen's argument in Philosophy Without Intuitions that contemporary analytic philosophers don't rely on intuitions as evidence for philosophical theories.

Prereflectively at least, it might have seemed really obvious that philosophers do rely on intuitions. So it had been suggested previously that one simple way to challenge Cappelen's argument would be to defend a specialized theory of intuition. But part of Chalmers' argument here is that there is a minimal way to understand the notion and subsequent use of intuition that both does justice to the way philosophers typically use the term, as well as vindicates this general sense in which it may have seemed so obvious that philosophers do rely on intuitions.

The minimal sense involves characterizing intuitive claims as claims with broadly non-inferential justification (or simply, justification that does not derive from "inferential, perceptual, introspective, memorial, or testimonial justification"). Then, and with respect to their use, Chalmers emphasises their dialectical justificatory status, or the use of intuitions in how a subject supports a claim to someone else. Putting all this together, "What is distinctive about appeals to intuition" Chalmers writes, "is that intuitive claims are taken to have a dialectical justification that is broadly noninferential. That is, they are taken to be dialectically justified (for all parties) in a way that does not depend on an inferential, perceptual, memorial, introspective, or testimonial dialectical justification".

So is this minimal sense reflective of the typical philosophical self-conception, in a way that perhaps made the original claim about intuitions seem so plausible? If so, it really seems like the minimal sense would also open intuitions to several of the kinds of worries that experimental philosophers have been raising...
 Epistemology Intuitions Talks and Reviews Wesley Buckwalter 2013-07-03T13:16:06-04:00 Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action - Final Call for Abstracts http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/06/-experimental-philosophy-philosophy-of-mind-and-action-final-call-for-abstracts.html 4th Workshop of Experimental Philosophy Group UK, a BIRTHA Conference 12-13 September 2013, University of Bristol Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 5th July 2013 Registration is now open – register online here: http://shop.bris.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=661 Keynote presentations will be given by Natalie Gold...
4th Workshop of Experimental Philosophy Group UK,

a BIRTHA Conference

 12-13 September 2013, University of Bristol

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 5th July 2013

 Registration is now open – register online here:
 http://shop.bris.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=661

Keynote presentations will be given by Natalie Gold (KCL), James Moore (Goldsmiths), Regina Rini (Oxford) and Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside).

We welcome submissions presenting recently completed experimental work, engaging with the work of any of this year's keynote speakers, proposing new experimental work, discussing existing empirical studies in the fields of Philosophy of Mind and Action, introducing novel approaches in this area or raising relevant methodological questions.

500-word abstracts to be sent as PDF or Word documents to firstname.lastname@example.com by 5th July 2013. Subject line of email should read "SUBMISSION [YOUR NAME]". In the body of the email please state your name, affiliation and in which category (presentation or poster) you wish your submission to be considered.  Submissions for presentations that are unsuccessful will be automatically considered for poster presentation. Presenters should be prepared to obtain funding from their home department, or to fund themselves.

Workshop Organisers: Bryony Pierce (Bristol), Robin Scaife (Sheffield) and James Andow (Nottingham)

We are grateful for the generous support of the University of Bristol Philosophy Department, BIRTHA, a Mind Association Major Conference grant and the University of Bristol Centre for Science and Philosophy.

Full details on our website:
 http://sites.google.com/site/experimentalphilosophygroupuk
 Conferences and Calls for Papers Bryony Pierce 2013-06-26T14:32:21-04:00 Jobs for Experimental Philosophers (Updated) http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/06/jobs-for-experimental-philosophers-updated.html (Note: Post updated to include a couple of new hires...) As this year's hiring season comes to a close, I was thinking it might be nice to take a moment to congratulate all the experimental philosophers who were hired this...
(Note: Post updated to include a couple of new hires...)

As this year's hiring season comes to a close, I was thinking it might be nice to take a moment to congratulate all the experimental philosophers who were hired this year. So here is a quick list of people who have published in experimental philosophy, the areas in which they have done experimental work (which aren't always the areas in which they have done the most work overall) and the institutions in which they were hired.

Justin Coates (free will) hired by University of Houston.

Felipe De Brigard (consciousness, free will, well-being) hired by Duke University.

Oisín Deery (free will) post-doc at University of Montreal.

Billy Dunaway (experimental philosophy meta-survey) post-doc at University of Oxford.

David Faraci (moral responsibility) hired as a Parr Center Fellow, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Adam Feltz (intentional action, knowledge, personality differences) hired by Michigan Technological University.

James Genone (reference) hired by Rutgers-Camden.

Philipp Koralus (moral cognition) hired by St. Catherine's College, Oxford.

Victor Kumar (personal identity, moral cognition) post-doc at University of Michigan.

Shen-yi (Sam) Liao (happiness, aesthetics) first Marie Curie International Incoming fellow at Leeds, then hired by Nanyang Technological University.

Theresa Lopez (moral cognition) post-doc at Hamilton College.

Eric Mandelbaum (moral responsibility, abstract/concrete differences) hired by Baruch College.

Josh May (weakness of will, knowledge) hired by University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Marc Moffett (knowing how) associate professor and chair of the department at University of Texas, El Paso.

Kaija Mortensen (metaphilosophy) hired by Randolph College.

Joshua Shepherd (free will, intentional action) post-doc at The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford.

Justin Sytsma (consciousness, causation, reference) hired by Victoria University.

Jennifer Zamzow (moral cognition) post-doc in Ethics and Cognition at Carnegie Mellon (Center for Ethics and Policy).

In addition, Jason Stanley (coauthor of an experimental philosophy paper on knowledge) was hired at Yale, and psychologist Steve Guglielmo (coauthor of a number of experimental philosophy papers on intentional action) was hired at Macalester.

These people have really done some fantastic work, and their successes are very well deserved. A huge congratulations to them all!

p.s. I'm sure that I am missing some people here, so if you know of anyone else, please let me know. (Seriously, don't be needlessly humble: if I have forgotten to mention you, be sure to send me an email.)

p.p.s. If you are curious about the experimental philosophers hired last year, check out last year's post.
 Joshua Knobe 2013-06-22T13:20:33-04:00 CFP: Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/06/cfp-buffalo-annual-experimental-philosophy-conference.html DEADLINE APPROACHING! CALL FOR PAPERS Buffalo Experimental Philosophy Conference October 11th & 12th, 2013 Keynote speaker: Edouard Machery (Pitt) UPDATE: Extended abstracts are acceptable submissions. Submissions are invited on any topic pertaining to experimental philosophy. Authors can report new experimental...
DEADLINE APPROACHING!

CALL FOR PAPERS

 Buffalo Experimental Philosophy Conference
 October 11th & 12th, 2013
 Keynote speaker: Edouard Machery (Pitt)

UPDATE: Extended abstracts are acceptable submissions.

Submissions are invited on any topic pertaining to experimental philosophy. Authors can report new experimental results or contribute to broader philosophical or methodological debates over existing results. Both XPhi-friendly and XPhi-critical papers are welcomed. Authors are encouraged to talk through their papers rather than read them verbatim.

 Organizers: Neil Otte, Paul Poenicke, & James Beebe (Experimental Epistemology Research Group, University at Buffalo)
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The research group The Moral Brain (www.themoralbrain.be) at Ghent University (Belgium) is looking for a PhD student (m/f) for a period of four years for the FWO-project "Measuring Moral Relativism".

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Both among philosophers and among lay people, moral relativism is often met with skepticism. Its alleged flaws are that moral relativism is incoherent and that endorsing moral relativism would have undesirable consequences – such as tolerating everything. However, at present, different conceptions of moral relativism prevail and some are more coherent than others. Moreover, it is unclear if moral relativists really differ from moral non-relativists in their thinking and acting.

In this project we aim to investigate the philosophy, psychology and behavioral correlates of moral relativism.

The project consists of three topics:

1 Investigating the possibility of a coherent concept of moral relativism
2 Developing an instrument (e.g. a questionnaire) that can be used to measure the degree of moral relativism in lay people
3 Investigating the relationship between moral relativism and moral and immoral behavior (e.g., tolerance)

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- To conduct a literature review of moral relativism
- To develop a moral relativism scale
- To conduct empirical studies, both behavioral studies and survey research
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In a recent paper (forthcoming in PPR), Dylan Murray and Eddy Nahmias present striking results, using mediation analysis, which seem to suggest that people mistakenly think that under determinism, mental states are bypassed, and this mistake leads to the (apparently) incompatibilist judgments about free will and moral responsibility.  But in a new paper, Shaun Nichols and I reexamine the issue using causal modeling.  We argue that the causal relationship between incompatibilist judgments and bypassing runs in exactly the opposite direction: incompatibilist judgments about free will lead to bypassing judgments.  We hypothesize that this phenomenon occurs because many people think of decisions as essentially indeterministic; thus, when confronted with a description of determinism they tend to think that decisions do not even occur. We provide evidence for this in subsequent studies which show that many participants deny that people make decisions in a deterministic universe; by contrast, most participants tend to allow that people add numbers in a deterministic universe. Together, these studies suggest that bypassing results don't reflect a confusion (as Murray and Nahmias suggest), but rather the depth of the incompatibilist intuition.
 David Rose 2013-06-01T16:15:22-04:00 Measuring Moral Judgment http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2013/05/measuring-moral-judgment.html I've been thinking a great deal lately about how best to study moral judgment. Let me say a few things myself, but I hope others will be able to chime in and share ideas, especially since I'm in the process...
I've been thinking a great deal lately about how best to study moral judgment. Let me say a few things myself, but I hope others will be able to chime in and share ideas, especially since I'm in the process of designing some studies.

What's best to measure?

So far it seems most researchers focus on measuring something other than what we might call purely "evaluative judgments," such as whether someone did something good or bad. This seems right to me since these don't necessarily constitute judgments about whether an action is right or wrong, which is paradigmatically a moral verdict. Moreover, this just seems to be the main target of most people doing research on moral judgment. For example, we want to know whether people think killing one to save five is morally wrong, not (merely) whether they think it involves doing some good. One might provide different answers to the corresponding questions.

So I think rightly the focus has been instead on what we might call "deontic judgments" such as whether an act is right/wrong, permissible/impermissible, etc. However, this then leads to issues about how to measure such judgments.

How best to measure it?

Some researchers present participants with a forced, dichotomous choice. They ask subjects to answer "Yes" or "No" to whether what the protagonist did was, say, permissible. (John Mikhail's work is a key example.) This has the advantage of quite clearly and straightforwardly yielding results that measure deontic judgments and places participants clearly into expressing one judgment or the other.

One potential problem with this, however, is that the forced-choice situation provides no option for participants to register uncertainty. (In fact, I suspect this has caused some trouble with some of this work. Maybe more on this some other time.) Another issue is that this is a "nominal" or "categorical" variable, which prevents a more fine-grained look at the data and makes certain statistical tests inappropriate.

Another approach is to present subjects with scales. Some researchers use something like:

0 = perfectly OK  ...  9 = extremely wrong

(Compare Haidt and his various collaborators.)

One issue with this approach is that it's unclear, to me at least, whether wrongness really comes in degrees. Tom Hurka has recently argued that it does, at least in a certain sense (in a blog post over at PEA Soup). I have my doubts, which I've recently, albeit briefly, expressed in a paper. I worry that the concepts of right and wrong (as opposed to good and bad e.g.) come in degrees in only a loose sense, as when we might say: "Murder is extremely illegal." In the comments section of his post, Hurka acknowledges that we might have to add "more seriously" to "wrong" to express a concept that comes in degrees. I wonder what other think, but I at least want to flag that this is an issue.

One could switch to a purely evaluative scale, such as:

1 = Very Good ... 7 = Very Bad

But, as I suggested before, I doubt this will shed much light on judgments about what is right and wrong, which I suspect are the primary targets of most researchers in this area.

Another Tack?

This all makes me wonder about the merits of taking a different approach. In other areas of experimental philosophy, researchers have tended to stick closer to the Likert-style scales, which are framed in terms of degree of agreement or disagreement, such as:

1 = strongly disagree, 2 = mildly disagree ... 7 = strongly agree

(Compare Liao et al 2012, "Putting the Trolley in Order")

Participants are then presented with statements and asked for their degree of agreement or disagreement with it (e.g. "It was morally wrong of Sam to steal the necklace.")

A similar approach has been pursued recently, albeit briefly, by Aaron Zimmerman in his forthcoming commentary on Mikhail's book in which he reports some new results. Zimmerman (along with John Caravello) presented participants with a scale that measures something like confidence in a claim (which is close to degree of agreement):

Should Jamie throw the switch?

(definitely yes) 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 (definitely no)

Focusing on something like agreement or confidence has the advantage of more clearly coming in degrees. So one needn't take a stance on whether deontic properties themselves are gradable.

Some worry that the usual mid-point of "Neither agree nor disagree" in Likert scales precludes equal intervals, since it seems to be a separate category. But some have taken to using "in between" for the midpoints, which seems a reasonable approach. And Zimmerman opted for no midpoint at all.

(I think there's another advantage of focusing on something like agreement, but that involves a further topic. I might take that up another time.)

These are just some thoughts I figured I'd make public. I'm curious to hear what others think about how best to study moral judgment. In particular, are there significant costs to measuring degree of agreement with moral claims rather than judgments about (alleged) degrees of morality?
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If someone tries to tell you today's tradition goes back to the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, feel free to call his bluff. What is true is that the calendar year used to start at the end of March under the Julian schematic. Legend claims that because news... READ ON
Over the course of the past six months, several readers have requested more modern artwork. I am happy today to be able to present a work by a very contemporary Thai artist, DuanPen.
1. DuanPen is only 9 years old, but she's already making a name for herself in the art world. Her abstract pointillist paintings sell for $500 to $750, on average. Her paintings were exhibited in the Kawamura Art Museum in Japan and in galleries in America and England.
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Our little blog is growing up.
Today is our second anniversary! Technically, we're a month late, since our first post went live on March 1, 2006. But it wasn't until later that spring that things really got moving. So, we've decided today's the day to celebrate.
And celebrate we will. I'll be popping up throughout the day with mental_floss trivia. But let's kick things off with an anniversary sale! Everything in the mental_floss store is 20% off today (excluding subscriptions). Just enter the code... READ ON
Last week, we spent some time inside the new SI Vault, which houses virtually everything that's ever appeared in Sports Illustrated (all for free). The Vault is a fantastic mix of history, nostalgia and unintentional comedy. We're at it again, highlighting the first time various topics were covered. Today's lineup includes steroids, the Internet, LeBron, Morganna, and the births of fantasy sports and sports-talk radio.
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I'm pleased to present a very special guest column this week by one of my new favorite authors, Samantha Hunt. First up, a mini-profile of K. Veerabadran, who holds world records for both continuous walking and continuous backwards walking. Be sure to tune back in tomorrow for Samantha's pieces on Arthur Blessit (who holds the distinction of being arrested 24 times for walking), and the following day for notable mid-19th century walker Jules Bourglay.
And now, without further rat-a-tat, I... READ ON
More and more companies in the US are harnessing wind power for electricity. Massachusetts is leading the way, because state law is forcing government buildings to go green.
Five Crazy Japanese Games Shows. The shows where you surrender your dignity for laughs and maybe even prizes!
The Top 10 Historical Hoaxers. From a British point of view, that is.
The sad story of Nim Chimpsky, the chimp who thought he was human. He was raised with humans only, until the funding ran out.
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Before we get to see Charlize Theron attempting to conquer the fairest of them all in Snow White and the Huntsman, shes set to star in the Jason Reitman film Young Adult . Written by Diablo Cody, Young Adult will have Theron playing a young adult novel writer who returns to her hometown in the hopes of tracking down her ex-boyfriend.
Johnny Knoxville and Patton Oswalt seem to come from completely separate comedy universes-- Knoxville the Jackass mastermind of gross-out comedy and star of duds like The Ringer and The Dukes of Hazzard, Oswalt the stand-up genius who's acted for Pixar and Steven Soderbergh. And yet, somehow, the two will be brought together by Todd Rohal
The rap star, who has dabbled in film over the years, will join Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe and Patton Oswalt in a feature-film take on Koontzs Odd Thomas, a bestselling novel from 2003 based on a clairvoyant short-order cook who encounters the ghost of a recently-deceased girl
Because this is a road trip movie, in which Carell and Knightley's characters team up to find Carell's long-lost love before the world ends, it seems possible that all of these actors will actually fit into the cast. But still, director Lorene Scafaria will have her hands full
As diverse and, yes, a little strange as the cast may be, the weirdest thing of all about Odd Thomas is that it will be directed by Stephen Sommers, who last made G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. It gives me no idea what to expect, but then again
Seven months ago we learned that comedian and actor Patton Oswalt was on the set of A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas, but no one seemed to be talking about just what it was he was doing there, other than that hed show up in the film. Now we know. Not only will Patton be in the movie, but hell be responsible for a cinematic first.
Its no secret that Patton Oswalt is a huge talent. Hes killed as a stand-up, earned acclaim as a dramatic actor, and won hearts as a voice-over artist. But what we know about Pattons
Though Wilson has worked with a whole litany of great directors in the past, it's actually Oswalt who's had the better career fortunes lately following his stellar, creepy lead turn in last year's Big Fan
For being the first day on set, a lot of things are happening in the world of A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas. First it came out from Todd Strauss-Schulson's Twitter account that the film had
Gere's the nice thing about interviewing a comedian-- even if his movie is serious, he doesn't have to be! So enjoy reading below my roundtable interview with both Siegel and Oswalt, as they talk about the fine line between sports fans and movie geeks
Rob Siegel is a great, great interview. Exceedingly clever and frank, willing to think about his answers rather than just spit out predetermined junket hype, the writer and director sat down with me last week to talk about his new film, Big Fan
Ive been looking forward to this since January when I first saw this movie in Park City. The first trailer for Big Fan has arrived and for anyone who wondered how mid-level comedian Patton Oswalt was able to pull off such fantastic voice-over work in Ratatouille
Maybe all of us won't get to see it-- First Independent is a pretty small distributor, so the release might be limited to the big cities. But still, it's the directing debut of The Wrestler director Robert Siegel, so there's a decent change that there will be a lot of interest in this one
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Remember all those great pieces we featured from last summer's Fangamer X Attract Mode show? They're now available to purchase online over at the Attract Mode shop! Though some of the prints are made to order, if you place your order soon, you should still be able to get them in time for Christmas in case you want to give them out as presents.
The pieces you see above come from Zac Gorman, Kyle Fewell, and Mingjue Helen Chen. While you're at the Attract Mode shop, why not also pick up our Tiny Cartridge X Mare Odomo sticker pack?
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Overcrowded rat cages represent a significant animal welfare concern. Such cages are non-compliant with Public Health Service (PHS) Policy and our Assurance to PHS. The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals states the PHS recommendations for housing densities. In order to standardize housing densities and prevent or eliminate the possibility of overcrowding within cages, the University's Animal Resource has adopted the following UCAR-approved policy: The number of rats per cage depends on the weight of the rat(s) and the size of the cage.
A standard rat cage has143 square inches floor space.
Investigators who choose to manage their own breeding colonies are responsible for timely weaning. Rats are generally weaned at 21 days of age. At this age, the pups are placed on inventory by the vivarium staff and the PI is notified. At 23 days of age, the PI will be notified if litters have not been weaned. The following day, these rats will be weaned by DLAM for a $50.00 fee. Delayed weaning protocols must be approved by UCAR with specification of actual weaning ages (up to 28 days of age) for extremely fragile rats. Additionally, a special request must be submitted to the Animal Resource office identifying the group of rats approved for delayed weaning. Continuous breeding with delayed weaning is not permitted.
If a breeding strategy results in two litters from the same dam, the older litter must be weaned when the new litter is born. This means that litters may require weaning between 17 and 20 days to prevent overcrowding and trauma to newborn pups. Cages identified with two or more litters will be reported to the PI. If the younger litter appears to be unaffected by the presence of the older pups, the investigator must wean the older litter by the following day. If not, DLAM will wean the older litter for a fee. If the younger litter is being harmed by the older pups, DLAM will immediately wean the older litter for a fee and notify the investigator. The investigator is expected to provide supportive care (moistened chow +/- Hydrogel®) and daily observation until early weaned pups are self-sustaining.
The DLAM veterinary staff provides training in the management of rodent breeding colonies for investigators and their staff. DLAM also offers colony management services to PIs for a fee.
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The statement by Paul McCartney about the potential impact of slaughter houses if they only had glass walls, while remaining very, very powerful today, doesn't account for the complexity of what motivates human beings in my opinion. Thanks to the courageous work by many through the internet, slaughter houses and animal factories do have glass walls by way of graphic information and visual footage available to anyone who wants to know, who wants to see (in the deepest sense possible)
Yet there are many who do know and see and continue to consume meat and dairy products. And there are those who at one point were inspired to stop but then returned to their habitual way of eating and some even despite their increased health and recovery from life-threatening diseases, only to perish from resuming their eating habits of the conditioned past.
According to Carolyn Myss, we all embody the Addict Archetype because none of us is born conscious.
And food is a substance highly, highly addictive to human beings as I see it, especially meat and dairy. Many cannot or do not succeed in changing, at least not without enormous effort initially, on-going self- education and self-monitoring, community support or minimally an accountability partner/buddy and lastly, vegans, modelling their endeavour to follow this life-style while exuding high levels of health and wellness and energy and joy, particularly joy. I see many unhealthy vegans who bring their other food addictions to the vegan way of life, consuming a lot of sugar and processed foods. Being vegan is not a die-t as some say, it is a live-it and above all a living process of continuous change.
There has to be joy in the discipline and commitment it takes to live life well in the long term, aspiring to the vegan way of living. The willingness to change embraces an on-going journey that gets deeper and deeper, carrying higher and higher levels of responsibility but there is thankfully inherent within the process, the paradox of life's "payoff" by way of our gaining more meaning and purpose in our lives, a sense of adventure and contribution.
Getting on this path and then staying on it long enough to be able to touch and taste and feel its merit, well, that is the initial challenge.
I have a magnet on my fridge that says: growing old is not for sissies.
A new mother who works for Green Peace one wrote that parenting was not for the faint of heart. (I would add, unless you want to win a personality contest with your child in the short term.)
Anything worth doing carries its own reward. Even I (in the sense that I care so deeply) can sometimes forget this. One thing I know for sure. We need each other, each and every ONE of us. And together, we will never be bored!
Tracey Shepherd-Davis, a former slaughter house employee, now rescues farmed animals from slaughter and other forms of cruelty. View many of Tracey's rescued happy endings at youtube.com/user/shewulfe
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Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States; with approximately 730,300 new cases and about 160,000 deaths in the United States annually. Approximately 80% of stroke survivors present an early motor deficit, with about 50% having chronic deficits. Loss of mobility due to muscle weakness and spasticity and thus impaired gait is a major contributor to post-stroke disability. Novel treatments are needed to serve as training aids for reestablishing efficient gait patterns, and as assistive devices to address residual motor impairments and functional limitations. During the last ten years, robotics and mechatronics have emerged as new research areas of great relevance to rehabilitation. Robotics and mechatronics offer the promise of sensitive, objective measurements and mobility assistance by using novel wearable and computer controlled active devices. The proposed project brings together experts in robotics, precision manufacturing, biomechanics, and stroke medicine with the goal of considerably improving the quality of life of stroke patients.
The research goals of this project are to develop and test a novel, smart and portable Active Knee Rehabilitation Orthotic Device (AKROD) designed to train stroke patients to correct knee hyperextension during stance and stiff-legged gait (defined as reduced knee flexion during swing). The knee brace will provide variable damping and torque actuator capabilities controlled in ways that we hypothesize foster motor recovery in stroke patients. Two different components of the device will be developed: a resistive (variable damper) and an active (torque actuator) component. The variable damper component of the brace will be used to facilitate knee flexion during stance by providing resistance to knee buckling. Furthermore, the knee brace will be used to assist in knee control during swing, i.e. to allow patients to achieve adequate knee flexion for toe clearance and adequate knee extension in preparation to heel strike. The torque actuator component will be used to encourage patients to actively extend the knee during midto-terminal stance, facilitate knee flexion during initial swing, and again encourage knee extension during mid-to-terminal swing. Algorithms for establishing appropriate control of the knee brace will be developed. Using data from both normal volunteers and hemiplegic stroke survivors, we will create training programs for the knee orthosis to assist patients in re-establishing a natural gait pattern.
The intellectual merit of the proposed project is the major enhancement of gait retraining in stroke patients and considerable improvement of orthotic intervention in the home and community settings. A wearable and portable smart training orthosis, as the one developed and tested in this project, could be used by patients throughout daily activities, with constant reinforcement of the targeted gait pattern. This constant reinforcement of gait retraining in a real-world environment has the potential to provide more effective and faster gait retraining, improving one's ability to ambulate.
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High Powered Boys (Bobmo & Surkin) - Girly / Crash - (MRBL003)
Surkin and Bobmo are originally from Southern France, respectively Avignon and Bordeaux, and they were still living there when they decided to launch their duo project High Powered Boys about 5 or 6 years ago. They both followed successful solo careers, spinning all over the world, in underground Japanese clubs as well as huge Euro festivals, and have been mostly releasing their material on Institubes so far, and dozens of remixes over the years. Oh and a Surkin LP is to be released on Marble this fall.
The boys have been settled in Paris for some years now and still pursue their collaboration, as shown on recent Sound Pellegrino release « Udon / Work », and right now on the third Marble installment, called « Girly / Crash ». Pushing further the riddim-based freakish bipolarity of « Udon », those two tracks are sure gonna cause mayhem on dancefloors, but in an alien, psychoactive way.
« Girly » is a juke-influenced beat led by insane bleepy hi-toms and a start-stop groove that claps and shakes like nothing else before except that lady with the Louise Brooks haircut in the video for Sean Paul's Get Busy. Synthhorns breaks and digi-whistles make this monster track even more vicious and angular-grooved, yet totally overwhelming. This is mental body music at its best, straightly aimed towards the future but not really making a whole thing about it – this is actually pretty sparse, minimalistic music. This is not even recommended : this is necessary listening.
« Crash » begins with E'd-up, old school UK style bleepy melody and washes, plus some equally hazy-eyed vocal bits, then breaks into a rushing, stiff Funky riddim without all the flowing, easy vibe usually heard within the genre – instead, this is kevlar-plated bass stabs and psychic-ward arpeggios all around, both giving the tune a strong dystopian flavour. Then it goes back to the defunct utopia, but then goes back again to the dark side, setting a mechanically hypersyncopated feeling to the beat. Distinct bipolarity here, most definitely.
(MRBL003) High Powered Boys - Girly / Crash by Marble Music
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Bok Bok 4/5 : "This is totally crazy, i'm definitely on this Girly track"
Teki Latex 5/5 : "A blacker and fatter Errorsmith yet still white and skinny"
Crookers 5/5 : "Both tracks are amazing"
Trevor Jackson 5/5 : "Totally retarded, and dumb as fuck but for some strange reason i like it?!…
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Best and Worst for Business06/23/2008
The SBEC's 'Business Tax Index 2008' gives South Dakota top honors.
From the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council:
"The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council's 'Business Tax Index 2008' ranks the states from best to worst in terms of the costs of their tax systems on entrepreneurship and small business. The Index pulls together 16 different tax measures, and combines those into one tax score that allows the 50 states and District of Columbia to be compared and ranked.
"The 16 measures are: 1) state's top personal income tax rate, 2) state's top individual capital gains tax rate, 3) state's top corporate income tax rate, 4) state's top corporate capital gains tax rate, 5) any added income tax on S-Corporations, 6) whether or not the state imposes an alternative minimum tax on individuals, 7) whether or not the state imposes an alternative minimum tax on corporations, 8) whether or not the state's personal income tax brackets are indexed for inflation, 9) property taxes, 10) consumption-based taxes (i.e., sales, gross receipts and excise taxes), 11) whether or not the state imposes a death tax, 12) unemployment tax, 13) whether or not the state has a tax limitation mechanism, 14) whether or not the state imposes an Internet access tax, 15) gas tax, and 16) diesel tax.
"The 15 best state tax systems are: 1) South Dakota, 2) Nevada, 3) Wyoming, 4) Washington, 5) Florida, 6) Alaska, 7) Texas, 8) Colorado, 9) Alabama, 10) Mississippi, 11) South Carolina, 12) Tennessee, 13) Missouri, 14) Ohio, and 15) Virginia.
"The 15 worst state tax systems are: 37) North Carolina, 38) Nebraska, 39) West Virginia, 40) Hawaii, 41) Idaho, 42) Vermont, 43) Massachusetts, 44) New York, 45) Rhode Island, 46) Maine, 47) Iowa, 48) California, 49) Minnesota, 50) New Jersey, and 51) District of Columbia."


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Definition of ruffian in English:
ruffianLine breaks: ruf|fian
Pronunciation: /ˈrʌfɪən /
A violent person, especially one involved in crime.
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- Well, so long as he could hide his emotions when they crossed paths with the thieves - bullies and ruffians were always drawn to the fearful.
- The tactics of the violent ruffians failed in this year's election.
- Vidocq served a lucrative apprenticeship with various ruffians, vagabonds and swindlers.
thug, scoundrel, villain, rogue, rascal, lout, hooligan, hoodlum, vandal, delinquent, rowdy, bully boy, bully, brute;
Australian larrikin
British informal rough, yob, yobbo, bovver boy, lager lout, chav, hoodie
North American informal hood, goon
Australian/New Zealand informal roughie, hoon
archaic miscreant
rare myrmidon
late 15th century: from Old French ruffian, from Italian ruffiano, perhaps from dialect rofia 'scab, scurf', of Germanic origin.
ruffianism noun
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- And the state tolerated ruffianism so long as disorder was kept at a minimum, and its authority was not fundamentally challenged.
ruffianly adverb
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- I do apologise for my ruffianly appearance, ma'am.
- Presently the man whistled and another ruffianly person sprang out from near the gate at the corner of the Grotto-field and joined his companion.
- Such rowdy, ruffianly, and apparently motiveless violence has a much longer history than the term hooligan.
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Dr. Daniel S. Duick has been practicing medicine for 47 years. Dr. Duick graduated from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 1967. He practices medicine in Scottsdale, AZ and 1 other location and specializes in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism and Diabetology. Dr. Duick is affiliated with Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Medical Center and Chandler Regional Medical Center. He speaks English and Spanish.
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