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The Cognitive Science of Moral Judgment & The Tower of Babel Problem
Stephen Stich, Proceedings & Addresses of the APA (2024).

The Moral/Conventional Distinction
Edouard Machery & Stephen Stich, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2022).

Demographic Differences in Philosophical Intuition: A Reply to Joshua Knobe

Stephen Stich, Edouard Machery, Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2022).

Religious Affiliation and Conceptions of the Moral Domain
Sydney Levine, Joshua Rottman, Taylor Davis, Elizabeth O’Neill, Stephen Stich, Edouard Machery

Social Cognition, 39, 1, 2021, pp. 139–165.

Evaluating Information and Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence for Epistemic Vigilance

Nadya Vasilyeva, Kristopher Smith, Kelli Barr, Jordan Kiper, Stephen Stich, Edouard Machery, & H. Clark Barrett, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, 2021. Pp. 583-589.

Cultural Variation and Cognition

Edouard Machery, Joshua Knobe & Stephen Stich, Review of Philosophy & Psychology, 2023.

The Ship of Theseus Puzzle

David Rose, Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich (& 44 additional co-authors), in Tania Lombrozo, Joshua Knobe & Shaun Nichols, eds., Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, vol. 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2020.

Kinship Intensity and the Use of Mental States in Moral Judgment Across Societies

Cameron M. Curtin, H. Clark Barrett, Alexander Bolyanatz, Alyssa N. Crittenden,

Daniel Fessler, Simon Fitzpatrick, Michael Gurven, Martin Kanovsky, Geoff Kushnick, Stephen Laurence, Anne Pisor, Brooke Scelza, Stephen Stich, Christopher von Rueden & Joseph Henrich, Evolution and Human Behavior, 41, 2020. Pp. 415-429.

Empirical Approaches to Altruism

John Doris, Stephen Stich, & Lachlan Walmsley, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism-empirical/

Did Religion Play a Role in the Evolution of Morality?

Stephen Stich, Religion, Brain and Behavior, v. 10, no. 3, 2020, pp. 292-302. Published online: 27 December, 2019. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2019.1678511

Relativism and Experimental Philosophy

Stephen Stich, David Rose & Edouard Machery, in Martin Kusch, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism (New York: Routledge) 2019, pp. 552-564.

For Whom Does Determinism Undermine Moral Responsibility? Surveying the Conditions for Free Will Across Cultures

Ivar R. Hannikainen, Edouard Machery, David Rose, Stephen Stich (and 30 additional co-authors), Frontiers in Psychology, 05 November 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02428.

The Quest for the Boundaries of Morality

Stephen Stich, The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology, (New York: Routledge), 2019. Pp. 15-37.

Nothing at Stake in Knowledge

David Rose, Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich (and 43 additional co-authors). Noûs, 53, 1, (2019) 224-247. Published online 2107, doi: 10.1111/nous.12211.

De Pulchritudine Non Est Disputandum: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Alleged Intersubjective Validity of Aesthetic Judgment

Florian Cova, Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich (and 39 additional co-authors), Mind and Language, 2018. Pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12210

Knowledge, Intuition and Culture

Stephen Stich, in Joëlle Proust & Martin Fortier, eds., Metacognitive Diversity: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2018. Pp. 381-394.

Do We Really Externalize or Objectivize Moral Demands?

Stephen Stich, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, E113, 2018. doi:10.1017/S0140525X18000183

Gettier Was Framed

Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich, David Rose, Amita Chatterjee, Kaori Karasawa, Noel Struchiner, Smita Sirker, Naoki Usui, Takaaki Hashimoto, in Masaharu Mizumoto, Stephen Stich & Eric McCready, eds., Epistemology for the Rest of the World, (New York, Oxford University Press), 2018. Pp. 123-148.

Manifesto

Stephen Stich & Masaharu Mizumoto, in Masaharu Mizumoto, Stephen Stich & Eric McCready, eds., Epistemology for the Rest of the World, (New York, Oxford University Press), 2018. Pp. vii-xv.

A Possible Future for Philosophy

Stephen Stich & Edouard Machery, The Philosophers’ Magazine, 80, 2018, 98-100.

The Moral Domain

Stephen Stich, in Kurt Gray & Jesse Graham, eds., The Atlas of Moral Psychology, (New York & London: Guilford Press), 2018. Pp. 547-555.

Intuition and Its Critics

Stephen Stich & Kevin Tobia, in Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige & James Robert Brown, eds., The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, (New York: Routledge) 2018. Pp. 369-384.

Moral Psychology: Empirical Approaches

John Doris, Jonathan Phillips, Lachlan Walmsley & Stephen Stich, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-psych-emp/

Gettier Across Cultures

Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich, David Rose, Amita Chatterjee, Kaori Karasawa, Neal Struchiner, Smita Sirker, Naoki Usui, & Takaaki Hashimoto, Nous, 51(3), 2017. Pp. 645-664. First published online: 13 AUG 2015, DOI:10.1111/nous.12110.

Can Psychologists Tell Us Anything About Morality?

John Doris, Edouard Machery & Stephen Stich, The Philosophers’ Magazine, 2nd quarter, 2017, pp. 24-29.

Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief: A Study in Ethno-Mentalizing

David Rose, Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich (and 44 additional co-authors), Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, v. 6, 2017, pp. 193-303. DOI:10.1002/tht3.248.

The Gettier Intuition From South America to Asia

Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich, David Rose (and 43 additional co-authors), in Joshua Knobe, Edouard Machery & Stephen Stich, eds., Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Special Issue on Experimental Philosophy. Published online August 2017. DOI 10.1007/s40961-017-0113-y.

O Desafio da Filosofia Experimental à ‘Grande Tradição’

Stephen Stich & Kevin Tobia, Analytica: Revista de Filosofia 20,2, (2016), 9-40. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000304247.

Small-Scale Societies Exhibit Fundamental Variation in the Role of Intentions in Moral Judgment

H. Clark Barrett, Alex Bolyanatz, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Daniel M.T. Fessler, Simon Fitzpatrick, Michael Gurven, Joseph Henrich, Martin Kanovsky, Geoff Kushnick, Anne Pisor, Brooke Scelza, Stephen Stich, Chris von Rueden, Wanying Zhao, and Stephen Laurence, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2016 April, 113 (17) 4688-4693 doi:10.1073/pnas.1522070113.

Why There Might Not Be An Evolutionary Explanation for Psychological Altruism

Stephen Stich, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 56, 2016. Pp. 3-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.10.005.

Moral Parochialism Misunderstood: A reply to Piazza and Sousa

Daniel M.T. Fessler, H. Clark Barrett, Martin Kanovsky, Stephen Stich, Colin Holbrook, Joseph Henrich, Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Matthew M. Gervais, Michael Gurven, Geoff Kushnick, Anne C. Pisor, Christopher von Rueden, & Stephen Laurence, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283:20152628, 27 January 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2628

Experimental Philosophy and the Philosophical Tradition

Stephen Stich & Kevin Tobia, in Wesley Buckwalter & Justin Sytsma, eds., A Companion to Experimental Philosophy (New York and Oxford: Blackwell) 2016. Pp. 5-21.

Moral Parochialism and Contextual Contingency Across Seven Disparate Societies

Daniel M.T. Fessler, H. Clark Barrett, Martin Kanovsky, Stephen Stich, Colin Holbrook, Joseph Henrich, Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Matthew M. Gervais, Michael Gurven, Geoff Kushnick, Anne C. Pisor, Christopher von Rueden, & Stephen Laurence, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 22 August 2015; volume 282, issue 1813, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0907.

Irrationality: Philosophical Aspects

Richard Samuels & Stephen Stich, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, edited by James D. Wright (Oxford: Elsevier), vol. 12, 2015. Pp. 719-723.

The Pretense Debate

Stephen Stich & Joshua Tarzia, Cognition 143, 2015. Pp. 1–12. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.06.007.

What Is Experimental Philosophy?

Stephen Stich, Annals of the Japan Association of Philosophy of Science, 23, 2015. Pp. 21-31.

‘Our’ Intuitions

Stephen Stich, in John Brockman, ed., This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (New York: Harper Perennial) 2015. Pp. 437-439. Available on-line at Edge: Annual Question 2014 – What Scientific Idea Is Ready for Retirement? http://www.edge.org/response-detail/25482.

Epistemic Intuitions in Fake-Barn Thought Experiments

David Colaço, Wesley Buckwalter, Stephen Stich & Edouard Machery, Episteme, 11, 2, June 2014. Pp. 199-212. doi:10.1017/epi.2014.7

Cleanliness is Next to Morality, Even for Philosophers

Kevin Tobia, Gretchen Chapman and Stephen Stich, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 20 (11 & 12), 2013.

Do Different Groups Have Different Epistemic Intuitions? A Reply to Jennifer Nagel

Stephen Stich, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 87, 1, July 2013. Pp. 151–178.

Moral Intuitions: Are Philosophers Experts?

Kevin Tobia, Wesley Buckwalter and Stephen Stich, Philosophical Psychology, 26(5), 2013. Pp. 629-638.

Gender and Philosophical Intuition

Wesley Buckwalter & Stephen Stich, in Joshua Knobe & Shaun Nichols, eds., Experimental Philosophy, vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2013. Pp. 307-346.

Should the Study of Homo Sapiens Be Part of Cognitive Science?

H. Clark Barrett, Stephen Stich & Stephen Laurence, TopiCS: Topics in Cognitive Science, 4, 3, 379–386. July 2012.

The Role of Experiment

Edouard Machery & Stephen Stich, in Gillian Russell & Delia Graff Fara, eds., The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language (New York: Routledge), 2012. Pp. 495-512.

We’re All Connected: Science, Ethics and the Law

Stephen Stich, in Creating Consilience: Integration of the Sciences and the Humanities, ed. by Edward Slingerland & Mark Collard (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2012. Pp. 285-298.

If Folk Intuitions Vary, Then What?

Edouard Machery, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols & Stephen Stich, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, on-line: January 5, 2012. DOI: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2011.00555.x; print: Volume 86, Issue 3, May 2013, Pp. 618–635

Gender and the Philosophers Club

Stephen Stich & Wesley Buckwalter, TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine, 52, 1, 2011. Pp. 60-65.

Reply to Lam Edouard Machery, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols, Stephen Stich, Max Deutsch, & Justin Sytsma, Cognition, 117, 3, December, 2010, pp. 361-366.

Altruism

Stephen Stich, John Doris & Erica Roedder, The Moral Psychology Handbook ed. by John Doris and the Moral Psychology Research Group (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2010. Pp. 147-205.

The Philosophy of Psychology

Kelby Mason, Chandra Sripada & Stephen Stich, in Dermot Moran, ed., Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophy (London: Routledge), 2010. Pp. 583-617.

Philosophy and WEIRD Intuitions

A commentary on J. Henrich, S. Heine & A. Norenzayan, “The Weirdest People in the World?” Stephen Stich, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 33, Issue 2-3, June 2010, pp 110-111.