The conference welcomes submissions in all areas of experimental philosophy. We particularly encourage contributions exploring experimental philosophy of law, experimental ethics, experimental philosophy of language, and experimental political philosophy.

Keynote speakers

 

Thomas Nadelhoffer (College of Charleston)

Ivar Hannikainen (University of Granada)

Katarzyna Paprzycka-Hausman and her team (University of Warsaw)

 

Programme

30 May 2024 | Day 1

Pre-conference symposium: LLMs for xPhi

Venue: Room 6.01 (sixth floor)

10:00 - 11:20

• Maria Antoniak: Computational Approaches to Narrative Analysis

• Lukasz Walasek, Sudeep Bhatia, Simon van Baal, Gordon D. A. Brown: The Incommensurability and Structure of Everyday Choices: LLM Analysis of Real World Dilemmas

11:20 - 11:40: Coffee

11:40 - 13:00

• Andres Karjus: LLM-Powered Analytics in a Machine-Assisted Quantitizing Research Framework
• Lucien Baumgartner, Paul Rehren: Leveraging LLMs for Conceptual Change Detection

13:00 - 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 - 16:20

 

• Nina Haket, Ryan Daniels: Why Making Words Better Is Not That Simple: Conceptual Engineering and Distributional Semantics
• Nikolai Shurakov, Moritz Kolbe, Neele Engelmann, Alex Wiegmann: Borderline Lies: Do LLMs Judge Like Humans?

16:20 - 16:40 Coffee

16:40 - 18:00

 

• Ethan Landes, Cristina Voinea, Radu Uszkai, Kathryn Francis The LLM Advisor: How Do Chatbots Influence Moral Judgment?
• Guilherme Almeida, José Luiz Nunes, Brian Flanagan: LLMs and Legal Reasoning

Posters & Drinks (18:30)

Venue: 0.01-0.02 (ground floor)

Posters:

• Marina D'Amico | Causal Selection: An Interventionist Explanation
• Benedikt Pirker, Izabela Skoczen: The Anthropocentric Bias of Ecocide
• Cuizhu Wang, Xin Han, Marten Kaas: Cross-cultural study on Institutional Belief of Fairness about Human-AI Interaction
• Salima Issina-Shorman: Coordination Beyond Precedence: How People Use Joint Experiences to Coordinate with Each Other
• Réka Blazsek, Christophe Heintz: Intention-Reading, Shared Knowledge, and Ownership

31 May 2024 | Day 2

9:30 - 10:45
Ivar Rodriguez Hannikainen
Letter versus spirit: An overview of experimental general jurisprudence
Venue: Room 6.01 (sixth floor) | Chair: Piotr Bystranowski
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee (0.01/0.02)
11:15 - 12:45
Session 1. Epistemic Injustice
Room 1.01
Chair: Kevin Tobia
Session 2. Artificial agents
Room 2.02
Chair: Robin Kopecký
Session 3. Moral Psychology
Room 1.04
Chair: Guilherme da Franca Couto Fernandes de Almeida

Carme Isern-Mas, Ivar R. Hannikainen

Injustice is Blind: Perpetrators of Epistemic Injustice Overlook It Around Them
Madeline G Reinecke, Matti Wilks, Paul Bloom

Developmental Changes in Perceived Moral Standing of Robots
Katarina M. Kovacevic, Jonathan Kominsky, Christophe Heintz, Francesca Bonalumi

Counterfactual Reasoning in Responsibility Ascription

Klaudyna Horniczak, Andrzej Porębski, Izabela Skoczeń

Is Epistemic Status Gender-Biased? Gender As a Predictor of Testimonial Reliability Assessments in Violent Crimes
Hyungrae Noh 

The Folk Attribution of Moral Responsibility to Artificial Intelligence
Brian D. Earp, Mey Bahar Buyukbabani, Tommaso Barba, David B. Yaden, Ivar Hannikainen, Emilian Mihailov

Laypeople’s Moral Disapproval of Love Drugs: An Experimental Investigation of Ecologically Valid Scenarios

Jorge Suárez, Ivar R. Hannikainen

Testimonial Injustice and the Misperception of Immigrants’ Values
Masaharu Mizumoto

AI as a Knower and Testifier: A Cross-Cultural Study
Greg Bognar

Moral Relativism and Folk Morality
12:45 - 14:45
Lunch break
14:45 - 16:15
Session 4. Experimental Jurisprudence
Room 1.01
Chair: Carme Isern-Mas
Session 5. Metaphilosophy
Room 2.02
Chair: Lucien Baumgartner
Session 6. Moral Psychology
Room 1.04
Chair: Emilian Mihailov

Piotr Bystranowski, Ivar Rodriguez Hannikainen

Publicity, Coordination, and the Law: New Experimental Data
Ethan Landes

The Attack from Positive Xphi: How to Weaponize “Surprising” Findings Against the Armchair
Maximilian Theisen, James Andow

The Exculpatory Potential of Moral Ignorance: Evidence from a Blame-Updating Paradigm

Neele Engelmann, Guilherme da Franca Couto Fernandes de Almeida, Felipe Oliveira de Sousa, Karolina Prochownik, Ivar Rodríguez Hannikainen, Noel Struchiner, Stefan Magen

Is There a Duty to Apply Immoral Laws?
Joachim Horvath, Alex Wiegmann, Nikolai Shurakov

Arguing About Thought Experiments in Humans and ChatGPT-4
Jim Everett, Simon Myers

The Influence of Utilitarian Moral Recommendations on Trust in Artificial Moral Advisors

Kevin Tobia

What is Reasonable? A Multi-Country Study
Eugen Fischer, Paul Engelhardt, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga

Experimental Argument Analysis: Two Eye Tracking Paradigms for the Study of Verbal Reasoning, and a Philosophical Application
Michaela Jirout Košová, Robin Kopecký, Michael Laakasuo

The "Immaterial" Seat of the Moral Self – Czech Children Perceive the Soul as More Important for Morality than the Physical Brain
16:15 - 16:45
Coffee (0.01/0.02)

16:45 - 17:45
Session 7. Experimental Jurisprudence
Room 1.01
Chair: Neele Engelmann
Session 8. Artificial Agents
Room 2.02
Chair: Masaharu Mizumoto
Session 9. Language
Room 1.04
Chair: Eugen Fischer

Bartosz Janik, Leonard Hoeft

Rules and Interpretation: Behavioral Account
Simon Myers, Jim Everett

Unravelling Perceptions of Morality and Intelligence: Examining the Psychology of the Orthogonality Thesis with AI and Humans Agents
Pascale Willemsen, Lucien Baumgartner

“Well Done, You!” – Examining Praise Vocabulary Using Corpus Analysis

Guilherme da Franca Couto Fernandes de Almeida, Noel Struchiner

A Perspectival Theory of Legal Interpretation
Kathryn Francis, Maria Ioannidou, and Matti Wilks

The Prioritisation of Humans Over Animals: Moral Anthropocentrism in Meat-Eaters, Vegetarians, and Vegans

18:30
DINNER

 

1 June 2024 | Day 3

9:30 - 10:45
Keynote 2 Katarzyna Paprzycka-Hausman & Team
Reflecting on the Knobe effect and the epistemic side-effect effect 
Venue: Room 6.01 (sixth floor) | Chair: Tomasz Żuradzki
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee (0.01/0.02)
11:15 - 12:45
Session 10. Identity
Room 1.01
Chair: Adrian Ziółkowski

Session 11. Punishment and communication
Room 1.04
Chair: Ivar Hannikainen

Tomasz Wysocki

Non-Transitivity of Personal Identity Revealed in Fission Cases

Maciej Próchnicki, Piotr Bystranowski, Bartosz Janik

What Do We Punish For? Proxies and Pretexts in Criminal Trials

Jakub Krawczyk, Bartosz Krzysztof Wultański, Paweł Zacharewicz

Boats, Proper Names, and Identity: Towards the Hierarchy of Principles Governing (Re)Identification

Michał Kłusek

How Acceptable Is Optimal Deterrence?

Vilius Dranseika

The Identity of What? Pluralism, Practical Interests, and Individuation

 

Kevin Reuter, Eleonore Neufeld, Giullermo Del Pinal

Generics and Strategic Communicators
12:45 - 14:45
Lunch break
14:45 - 16:15
Session 12. Metaphysics
Room 1.01
Chair: Michaela Jirout Košová
Session 13. Language
Room 2.02
Chair: Ethan Landes
Session 14. Issues in Psychiatry
Room 1.04
Chair: Maciej Próchnicki

Kiichi Inarimori, Masashi Takeshita, Kengo Miyazono

Philosophical Significance of Artificial Intuitions: A Case Study of LLMs’ Intuitions on Free Will and Determinism
Adrian Ziółkowski, Krzysztof Sękowski, Anand Vaidya

Two-Dimensional Semantics, Modal Sentences Involving Kind Terms, and Folk Semantic Intuitions
Dariusz Miękisz

Influence of Emotions on Different Levels of Moral Judgment

Paulius Rimkevičius, Alison Oliver, Renato Cardoso, Marcel Brass, Uri Maoz

The Meaning of 'Free Will' and 'Libre Arbitre': Choice, Doing What One Wants, and the Absence of Constraints
Giuseppe Ricciardi, Kevin Reuter

Exploring the Ambiguity of Truth between Correspondence and Coherence
Felix Schmidt

Ageing and Existential Conflict – A Study in Experimental Philosophy of Psychiatry

 

Lukas S. Huber, David-Elias Künstle, Kevin Reuter

Tracing Truth Through Conceptual Scaling
José V. Hernández-Conde

Assessing the Attribution of Intentionality in Neurologically Diverse Populations
16:15 - 16:45
Coffee (0.01/0.02)

 

 

16:45 - 17:45
Session 15. Metaphysics
Room 1.01
Chair: Paulius Rimkevičius
Session 16. Moral Psychology
Room 2.02
Chair: Dariusz Miękisz
Session 17. Social Networks
Room 1.04
Chair: Wojciech Kaftański

Louisa Marie Reins, Tomasz Wysocki, Michael Waldmann

A Much-Needed Investigation into the Folk Concept of Capacities
Dries Bostyn

Beyond Hypotheticals: Exploring Moral Judgment Through Real-life Sacrificial Dilemma Paradigms
Mark Alfano

The Affiliative Use of Emoji and Hashtags in the Black Lives Matter Protests

Léa Moncoucy, Krzysztof Dolega, Axel Cleeremans

On the Intuitions of Unconscious Pain
Angarika Deb, Christophe Heintz, Harry Walker

A Relational Theory of Fairness Judgements
Christophe Heintz, Ákos Szegőfi

Dressing Up Disinformation: A Study in Experimental Social Epistemology

 

2 June 2024 | Day 4

10:30 - 12:00
Session 18. Epistemology
Room 6.01 (sixth floor)
Chair: Vilius Dranseika
Session 19. Discrimination
Room 2.02
Chair: Mark Alfano

Nikolai Shurakov

Do You Stand By Your Claim That 'Tom Knows the Bank Is Open on Saturday'?
Ida Bruun Nørregaard

The Moral Foundations of Discrimination: What Are They, and How Do They Influence Discriminatory Attitudes?

Ryan McKay, Matt Tompkins, Petter Johansson, Lars Hall 

Neurotechnology and Newcomb’s Paradox

 

Maciej Tarnowski, Adrian Ziółkowski 

The Epistemic Side-Effect Effect Without the Awareness of Side-Effects

12:00-13:00
Pizza (0.01/0.02)
13:00 - 14:15
Keynote 3 Thomas Nadelhoffer
The Debate About “Natural” (In)compatibilism: What Have We Learned (and Where Should We Go From Here)?
Room 6.01 (sixth floor) | Chair: Izabela Skoczeń
14:15 - 14:30
Concluding remarks

 

Organizers and Venue

The conference is co-organized by the Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy and Interdycyplinary Centre for Ethics in cooperation with ​​the Chair of Legal Theory at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Institute of Psychology, and Future Law Lab at Jagiellonian University, the European Experimental Philosophy Association, and local xPhi groups in Europe.

Local organizers: Izabela Skoczeń, Tomasz Żuradzki, Piotr Bystranowski, Bartosz Janik, Maciej Próchnicki, Vilius Dranseika 

Venue: Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, ul. Romana Ingardena 6, Kraków 

Funding: The event has been supported by a grant from the Faculty of Law and Administration under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University and funding from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagiellonian University. The event has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 805498).