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Joshua Knobe

About

Joshua Knobe is a professor at Yale University in both the Program in Cognitive Science and the Department of Philosophy. His research focuses on systematic experimental studies designed to figure out how people actually go about making moral judgments. He is co-editor (with Shaun Nichols) of the forthcoming volume Experimental Philosophy.

Books by Joshua Knobe
Recent Posts
Torn Between Left and Right

New research in experimental philosophy explores the psychology behind our political preferences

New research in experimental philosophy explores the psychology behind our political preferences

Can the mentally ill be to blame?

Suppose you learned that someone had committed a horrible rape. And now suppose you find out that he is suffering from a neurological condition. Would you still hold him responsible for what he had done?

Suppose you learned that someone had committed a horrible rape. And now suppose you find out that he is suffering from a neurological condition. Would you still hold him responsible for what he had done?

Would You be Willing to Enter the Matrix?

A new study in experimental philosophy asks whether people would be willing to live a life of illusion.

A new study in experimental philosophy asks whether people would be willing to live a life of illusion.

Do you need to have a body to have a mind?

Philosophers have long wondered whether the mind depends on the body or whether our thoughts and feelings reside in an immaterial 'soul.' Though intellectuals are still arguing back and forth about the right answer to that question, experimental studies have revealed some surprising facts about how ordinary people think of these issues.

Philosophers have long wondered whether the mind depends on the body or whether our thoughts and feelings reside in an immaterial 'soul.' Though intellectuals are still arguing back and forth about the right answer to that question, experimental studies have revealed some surprising facts about how ordinary people think of these issues.

Introducing Experimental Philosophy

It may seem a bit odd that a magazine like Psychology Today is sponsoring a blog by a band of philosophers. After all, isn't philosophy supposed to be something entirely separate from psychology? Aren't philosophers just supposed to sit in their armchairs pondering the great imponderables, while psychologists busy themselves delving into the actual facts of human thought and behavior?

It may seem a bit odd that a magazine like Psychology Today is sponsoring a blog by a band of philosophers. After all, isn't philosophy supposed to be something entirely separate from psychology? Aren't philosophers just supposed to sit in their armchairs pondering the great imponderables, while psychologists busy themselves delving into the actual facts of human thought and behavior?