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Moral asymmetries in judgments about intentional action: Three linguistic accounts| old_uid | 13824 |
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| title | Moral asymmetries in judgments about intentional action: Three linguistic accounts |
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| start_date | 2014/04/11 |
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| schedule | 16h-17h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The Knobe Effect is the observation that judgments about whether an agent intentionally brought about a given outcome are influenced by moral informations. Some think that this effect reveals something deep about folk psychology and our theory-of-mind, while other think the effect operates at a much more superficial level. Among the latter kind of accounts are accounts that consider the Knobe Effect to be mainly a linguistic phenomenon. I will present and discuss three different linguistic accounts of the Knobe Effect. After rejecting two pragmatic accounts of the effect, I will argue for a semantic account of the Knobe Effect, and will draw a parallel between the semantics of "intentionally" and the semantics of the quantifier "many." |
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| responsibles | Strickland |
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