The Folk Concept of Intentional Action: Philosophical and Experimental Issues

By Edouard Machery. 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Do you know more when it matters less? (2010, background): “For a discussion of the problems involved in invoking the notion of competence in debates about experimental philosophy, see Machery (2008).”
The Pervasive Impact of Moral Judgment (2009, background): “On one side are researchers who suggest that the effect can be understood entirely in terms of certain special features of the attribution of intentional action in particular (e.g., Machery 2008; Nichols and Ulatowski 2007).”
The Epistemic Side-Effect Effect (2010, background): “" Steve Guglielmo and Bertram Malle (2008) write, " the CEO obviously knows that his action will bring about harm.”
At the Heart of Morality Lies Folk Psychology (2009, background): “In Knobe’s and subsequent researchers’ studies (Cushman and Mele, 2008; Knobe and Burra, 2006; Machery, 2008; Mallon, 2008; Nadelhoffer, 2004, 2005; Nichols and Ulatowski, 2007), the patterns of results were typically these: participants who considered neutral outcomes and learned that components…”
Innocent intentions: a correlation between forgiveness for accidental harm and neural activity. (2009, background): “The correct interpretation of the side-effect effect remains controversial (e.g., Machery, 2008).”
Norms inform mental state ascriptions: A rational explanation for the side-effect effect. (2010, unknown): “While other studies have provided evidence that the side-effect effect is not limited to moral cases (Machery, 2008), they have not focused on conventional norms or on asymmetries arising from norm-conformance versus norm- violation.”