Estimating the reproducibility of experimental philosophy

Cova, Florian, Strickland, Brent, Abatista, Angela, Allard, Aurélien, Andow, James, Attie, Mario, Beebe, James, Berniūnas, Renatas, Boudesseul, Jordane, Colombo, Matteo, Cushman, Fiery, Diaz, Rodrigo, van Dongen, Noah N’Djaye Nikolai, Dranseika, Vilius, Earp, Brian, Torres, Antonio Gaitán, Hannikainen, Ivar, Hernández-Conde, José V., Hu, Wenjia, Jaquet, François, Khalifa, Kareem, Kim, Hanna, Kneer, Markus, Knobe, Joshua, Kurthy, Miklos, Lantian, Anthony, Liao, Shen-yi, Machery, Edouard, Moerenhout, Tania, Mott, Christian, Phelan, Mark, Phillips, Jonathan, Rambharose, Navin, Reuter, Kevin, Romero, Felipe, Sousa, Paulo, Sprenger, Jan, Thalabard, Emile, Tobia, Kevin, Viciana, Hugo, Wilkenfeld, Daniel and Zhou, Xiang (2021) Estimating the reproducibility of experimental philosophy. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12. pp. 9-44. ISSN 1878-5158

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Abstract

Responding to recent concerns about the reliability of the published literature in psychology and other disciplines, we formed the X-Phi Replicability Project (XRP) to estimate the reproducibility of experimental philosophy (osf.io/dvkpr). Drawing on a representative sample of 40 x-phi studies published between 2003 and 2015, we enlisted 20 research teams across 8 countries to conduct a high-quality replication of each study in order to compare the results to the original published findings. We found that x-phi studies – as represented in our sample – successfully replicated about 70% of the time. We discuss possible reasons for this relatively high replication rate in the field of experimental philosophy and offer suggestions for best research practices going forward.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: experimental and cognitive psychology,philosophy ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3205
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 15 Jun 2018 14:30
Last Modified: 23 Mar 2024 00:50
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67376
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-018-0400-9

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