Stereotype-Based Intuitions: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Experimental Philosophy’s ‘Sources Project’

Fischer, Eugen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-1610 and Engelhardt, Paul (2016) Stereotype-Based Intuitions: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Experimental Philosophy’s ‘Sources Project’. In: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, pp. 526-531. ISBN 978-0-9911967-3-9

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Abstract

Experimental philosophy’s ‘sources project’ seeks to develop psychological explanations of philosophically relevant intuitions which help us assess their evidentiary value. This paper develops a psycholinguistic explanation of intuitions prompted by brief philosophical case-descriptions. For proof of concept, we target intuitions underlying a classic paradox about perception (‘argument from hallucination’). We trace them to stereotype-driven inferences automatically executed in verb comprehension. We employ a forced-choice plausibility-ranking task to show that contextually inappropriate stereotypical inferences are made from less salient uses of the verb “to see”. This yields a debunking explanation which resolves the philosophical paradox.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Wittgenstein Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group
Related URLs:	https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2016/pape...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	17 Dec 2016 00:09
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 10:39
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61772
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