- My colleague Stephen Stich is collecting data on philosophers’ views about normative judgments. This is part of work he’s doing jointly with Joe Henrich and Taylor Davis at UBC. It involves answering questions in a 20-item questionnaire. The research has been approved by UBC’s Behavioral Research Ethics Board and is open to all faculty and graduate students in philosophy. If you’d like to take this survey, it is online at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=u_2fmW1lVR2ZyszkTSH2Jnzw_3d_3d. - Somewhat relatedly, this week’s David Brooks column talks about empirically influenced work in ethics, highlighting in particular Kwame Anthony Appiah’s recent book Experiments in Ethics.
- The Blackwell Compass Virtual Conference is underway, and I encourage everyone to check out the activities.
- I’m going to be at (at least) three workshops/conferences in St Andrews next summer. This includes the methodology workshop, the large Arché / Rutgers Epistemology conference and the Conference on the Foundations of Logical Consequence. I’m also scheduled to give talks in Germany and in England. It should be a busy, and very rewarding, summer.
- While all that is happening, my colleague Dean Zimmerman is co-organising a summer seminar in philosophy of religion. There’s lots of information available at that link, but the crucial thing to note now is that registration for it closes December 1.
- Finally, here are some very nice pictures of Lower Manhattan.
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I started to take Stich’s survey. By the time I got to the third question, reflection about the form of the questions began to set in, and I began to question my responses to the first two questions. It seemed to me the questions were poorly designed in a number of ways. I am not going to go into details about this, in order not to spoil others’ taking the survey. But I do wonder if I am alone in my reaction.
I’ll just add: I quit before answering the third question.
I thought it was okay until a rather strange conjunction question. The first conjunct makes a contentious claim, and the second I predict will be thought false by everyone taking the survey. So if the intention is to investigate the contentious claim, bad luck!