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On 2016-03-30 17:54, William Flynn Wallace wrote:<br>
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style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Anders:
(Want to design a good neuroimaging experiment for some
"higher" function like consciousness, moral behavior or
suffering? Get a philosopher into the experiment design team
- neuroscientists often tend to have too simplistic models
of what an experiment can tell about the mind.) </span><br
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What about psychologists?? </span></div>
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Psychologists are typically theory-driven, while the philosopher in
the team is more likely to be a gadfly pointing out if the model is
unfalsifiable, vacuous, or otherwise no good. They usually have less
stake in a particular outcome being true, and care more about the
experiment being logically consistent. <br>
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do philosophers know about the mind other than what they can
dream up? Experimental philosophy, my jackass. That's
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Yup. The parts of the philosophy of mind that got their act together
moved out and became respectable. Just like the natural sciences,
economics, sociology, history, and many other departments. The
remaining mess is philosophy. <br>
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But I did not claim *all* philosophers are useful for experiment
design.<br>
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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