Outputs (3)

Stakes, Scales, and Skepticism (2019)
Journal Article
Francis, K., Beaman, P., & Hansen, N. (2019). Stakes, Scales, and Skepticism. ERGO, 6(16), https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0006.016

There is conflicting experimental evidence about whether the “stakes” or importance of being wrong affect judgments about whether a subject knows a proposition. To date, judgments about stakes effects on knowledge have been investigated using binary... Read More about Stakes, Scales, and Skepticism.

Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making (2019)
Journal Article
Francis, K., Gummerum, M., Ganis, G., Howard, I. S., & Terbeck, S. (2019). Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making. Psychopharmacology, 236, 3477 - 3496. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-019-05314-z

Rationale Hypothetical moral dilemmas, pitting characteristically utilitarian and non-utilitarian outcomes against each other, have played a central role in investigations of moral decision-making. Preferences for utilitarian over non-utilitarian re... Read More about Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making.

A Corpus Study of “Know”: On The Verification of Philosophers’ Frequency Claims about Language (2019)
Journal Article
Hansen, N., Porter, J., & Francis, K. (2019). A Corpus Study of “Know”: On The Verification of Philosophers’ Frequency Claims about Language. Episteme, 18, 242-268. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2019.15

AbstractWe investigate claims about the frequency of “know” made by philosophers. Our investigation has several overlapping aims. First, we aim to show what is required to confirm or disconfirm philosophers’ claims about the comparative frequency of... Read More about A Corpus Study of “Know”: On The Verification of Philosophers’ Frequency Claims about Language.