Jonathan M Weinberg

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• Weinberg, J. M. (2018). Are Aestheticians’ Intuitions Sitting Pretty?. In Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics(pp 267-288). Bloomsbury.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2018). Knowledge, Noise, and Curve-fitting: A methodological argument for JTB?. In Explaining knowledge: new essays on the Gettier problem(pp 253-272). Oxford University Press.
• Barnard, R., Barnard, R., Ulatowski, J., Ulatowski, J., Weinberg, J. M., & Weinberg, J. M. (2017). Thinking About The Liar, Fast and Slow. In Reflections on the Liar(pp 39-70). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  In the past, experimental philosophers have explored the psychological underpinning of a number of notions in philosophy, including free will, moral responsibility, and more. But prior to this chapter, although a number of philosophers have speculated on how ordinary folks might, or should, think about the liar paradox, no one had systematically explored the psychological underpinnings of the Liar itself. The authors take on this task. In particular, the chapter investigates the status of a liar sentence, L = ‘Sentence L is false’. The thesis, arrived at by interpreting the data the authors have accrued, is that reflective thinkers (some of whom possess a modicum of philosophical expertise) judge L to be neither true nor false (as opposed to false or true), and the authors see this as some evidence for the claim that L is neither true nor false.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2016). Intuitions. In Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology(pp 287-308). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  : This article examines the philosophical methodology of intuitions beginning with an argument developed by Max Deutsch and Herman Cappelen over the descriptive adequacy of what Cappelen calls “methodological rationalism”, and their own preferred view, “intuition nihilism”. Based on inadequacies in both accounts, it offers a descriptive take on intuition-deploying philosophical practice today via what it calls “Protean Crypto-Rationalism”. It then describes the epistemic profile of the appeal to intuition, listing four key aspects of the basic shape of intuition-deploying philosophical practice: primacy of cases, flexibility of report format, freedom of stipulation, and interpretation-hungry. It also considers several sources of error for intuitions featured in at least the informal methodological lore of philosophy, namely: misconstruals, modal confusions, pragmatics/semantics confusion, and “tin ear”. Finally, it explores the problem of methodological ignorance and inferential demand, particularly the typical practices of philosophical inference that operate on the premises delivered by appeal to intuitions.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2017). What is negative experimental philosophy good for. In The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology(pp 161-183). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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  My objective here is to make a case for the positive philosophicalcontribution of the ‘negative programme’ in experimental philosophy,and head off a few common misconceptions about it along the way.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2016). Experimental Philosophy, Noisy Intuitions, and Messy Inferences. In Advances in Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Methodology(pp 11-33). London: Bloomsbury.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2016). Going Positive by Going Negative: On Keeping X-Phi Relevant and Dangerous. In The Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy(pp 71-86). Oxford UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2015). Humans As Instruments, or The Inevitabilty of Experimental Philosophy. In Experimental Philosophy, Rationalism, and Naturalism: Rethinking Philosophical Method. Routledge.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2015). Regress-Stopping for Neopragmatists. In Epistemic Evaluation: Purposeful Epistemology. Oxford University Press.
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  David Henderson and John Greco, eds.
• Alexander, J., & Weinberg, J. M. (2014). The "Unreliability" of Epistemic Intuitions. In Current Controversies in Experimental Philosophy. Routledge.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014). All Your Desires in One Box. In Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind. OUP.
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  To appear in _Aesthetics and the Sciences ofthe Mind_, G. Currie, A. Meskin, M. Kieran, and J. Robson, eds., Oxford University Press.;Your Role: Author;
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014). The Challenge of Sticking With Intuitions Through Thick and Thin. In Intuitions. OUP.
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  to appear in A. Booth and D. Rowbottom, eds., _Intuitions_, Oxford University Press;Your Role: Co-author;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Co-author is a former student at IU, now an assistant professor at Siena College;
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014). The Promise of Experimental Philosophy and the Inference to Signal. In Advances in Experimental Epistemology. J. Beebe, ed., _Advances in Experimental Philosophy_: Continuum.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2013). The Prospects for an Experimentalist Rationalism or Why It's OK if the A Priori Is Only 99.44 Percent Empirically Pure. In The A Priori In Philosophy.
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  to appear in _The A Priori In Philosophy_, A. Casullo and J. Thurow (eds), Oxford: OUP.;Your Role: Author;
• Weinberg, J. M., , C. A., & , P. T. (2012). Reasoning and Rationality. OUP.
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  ;Full Citation: Allen, C., Todd, P., and Weinberg, J. (2012) “Reasoning and Rationality” Oxford Handbook ofPhilosophy & Cognitive Science, E. Margolis, S. Stich, and R. Samuels, eds. Oxford UniversityPress.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Co-authors are both cognitive science faculty at Indiana University.;

Journals/Publications

• Gjesdal, A., & Weinberg, J. M. (2020). Aesthetic Debunking and the Transcendental Argument of the Novel. Aesthetic Investigations.
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  For a special issue on "Empirical Aesthetics"
• Weinberg, J. M. (2022). Supplementing Herder’s naturalism: Expanding the senses and transcending cultures. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, tbd.
• Barnard, R., Ulatowski, J., & Weinberg, J. M. (2022). The Fourfold Route to Empirical Enlightenment: Experimental Philosophy’s Adolescence and the Changing Body of Work. Filozofia Nauki (The Polish Journal of the Philosophy of Science), 29(2), 77-113.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2022). Review of William Seeley, Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80(1), 121-124.
• Alexander, J., & Weinberg, J. M. (2020). You just can't count on (un)reliability. Analysis, 80(4), 737-751.
• Weinberg, S. E., & Weinberg, J. M. (2020). Hard domains, biased rationalizations, and unanswered empirical questions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, 42-43. doi:10.1017/S0140525X1900222X
• Weinberg, J. M. (2016). What is the A Priori, That Thou Art Mindful of It?. Philosophical Studies, 173(6), 1695-1703. doi:10.1007/s11098-015-0592-0
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  Phil Studies published this book symposium on Casullo's book from a prior Pacific APA.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2015). The Methodological Necessity of Experimental Philosophy. Discipline filosofiche, 25, 23-42.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2015). What is the a priori, that thou art mindful of it? A comment on Albert Casullo, Essays on a priori justification and knowledge. Philosophical Studies, 1-9. doi:10.1007/s11098-015-0592-0
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014). Cappelen Between Rock and a Hard Place. Philosophical Studies.
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  In a book symposium on Herman Cappelen's _Philosophy Without Intuitions_
• Weinberg, J. M., , S. C., Gonnerman, C., , J. M., , S. S., & Vandewalker, I. (2012). Intuition & Calibration.
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  ;Your Role: Lead author;Full Citation: Weinberg, J., Crowley, S., Gonnerman, C., McCrary, J., Swain, S., Vandewalker, I., “Intuition &Calibration” (2012), Essays in Philosophy, 13, 256-283.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Weinberg, J. M., Alexander, J., Gonnerman, C., & Reuter, S. (2012). Restriction & Reflection: Challenge Deflected, or Simply Redirected?.
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  Special issue on experimental philosophy;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Weinberg, J. M., Alexander, J., Gonnerman, C., & Reuter, S. (2012). Restrictionism and Reflection. The Monist, 95(2), 200-222;Collaborative with undergraduate student: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Co-authored with former students at IU; also, Joshua Alexander is now assistant professor at Siena College.;
• Weinberg, J. M., Alexander, J., Gonnermna, C., & Reuter, S. (2012). Restriction & Reflection: Challenge Deflected, or Simply Redirected?. Monist.
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  Special issue on experimental philosophy;Your Role: Co-author;Collaborative with undergraduate student: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Co-authored with former students at IU; also, Joshua Alexander is now assistant professor at Siena College;
• Weinberg, J. M., Crowley, S., Gonnerman, C., Vandewalker, I., & Swain, S. (2011). Intuitions and Calibration. Essays in Philosophy.
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  Weinberg, Jonathan M.; Crowley, Stephen; Gonnerman, Chad; Vandewalker, Ian; and Swain, Stacey (2012) "Intuition & Calibration," Essays in Philosophy: Vol. 13: Iss. 1, Article 15. Available at: http://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/vol13/iss1/15;Your Role: Lead co-author;Electronic: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Co-authors are all former graduate students of mine from IU; Crowley is currently an associate professor at Boise State;

Presentations

• Weinberg, J. M. (2023). Calling Fouls in Philosophy. Graduate Seminar in Aesthetics, Guest Lecturer. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2023, Fall). Comment on Stephanie Patridge, "Playing Together: Against the Achievement Model of Games". Southern Aesthetics Workshop IV. Greenville, SC: American Society for Aesthetics.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2023, Summer). Imagination, Affect, and Hanging Up on the [In the fiction] Operator. Society for Philosophy and Psychology. University of Pittsburgh: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2023, Summer). Sincere Fictional Desires. American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division. Santa Fe, New Mexico: American Society for Aesthetics.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2019, Fall). Emersonian Epistemology, Naturalized?. Invited departmental colloquium. UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2019, Fall). Emersonian Epistemology, Naturalized?. Invited departmental colloquium. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2019, Spring). Emersonian Epistemology, Naturalized?. Midsouth Philosophy Conference. Memphis, Tennessee.
• Weinberg, J. M., & Alexander, J. (2019, Fall). How to Burn an Armchair. Invited departmental colloquium. Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
• Weinberg, J. M., & Alexander, J. (2019, Fall). How to Burn an Armchair. Werkmeister Experimental Philosophy Conference. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2018, December). Off Base: The Case Against Epistemic Basing Relations. Invited departmental colloquium. University of California - Riverside: University of California - Riverside.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2018, March). Off Base: The Case Against Epistemic Basing Relations. Midsouth Philosophy Conference. Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.
• Nichols, S., & Weinberg, J. M. (2017, June). Experimenting on Essences. Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2017, July). How to Burn an Armchair: On the Proper Construal of the Restrictionist Challenge in Experimental Philosophy. Australasian Experimental Philosophy Conference. Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2017, July). Justification by faith? A (limited) defense of undefended beliefs. Invited colloquium. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2017, July). Justification by faith? A (limited) defense of undefended beliefs. Invited colloquium. Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2017, September). Philosophical _Déformation professionelle_ and the burden of proof. Conference on Intuitions and the Expertise Defense. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University.
• Weinberg, J. M., & Gjesdal, A. (2017, March). Aesthetic Debunking Arguments. Midsouth Philosophy Conference. Memphis, Tennessee.
• Nichols, S. B., & Weinberg, J. M. (2016, February). Experimentation on the Autonomy of Essences. The Midsouth Philosophy Conference. Rhodes College, Memphis, TN: The Midsouth Philosophy Conference.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2016, May). Evolutionary Debunking Arguments in Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics. Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics: At the Intersection. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014, April). What Can Philosophy Learn From Doing Experiments? A Report on The 'X-Phi' Movement. University of Southern Mississippi "Philosophical Fridays" public colloquium. Hattiesburg, MS: University of Southern Mississippi.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014, December). Justification in an Epistemically Fallen World. Colloquium. Riverside, CA: UC Riverside.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014, February). All Your Desires in One Box. Midsouth Philosophy Conference. Memphis, TN.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014, June). All Your Desires in One Box. Society for Philosophy & Psychology. Vancouver, BC: Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014, June). Hope as a (methodological) virtue. Colloquium. Cologne, Germany: Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014, May). How to Go Positive By Going Negative: Putting Experimental Philosophy to Work. "We Need to Talk": Language & Philosophical Methods. Vienna, Austria: Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy.
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  Keynote address
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014, September). Are Aesthetic Intuitions Looking Good?. British Society for Aesthetics Annual meeting. Oxford, UK: British Society for Aesthetics.
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  (I wasn't sure how best to describe the "peer review type": the panel proposal had been refereed by the program committee, but once it was accepted, the specific contributions by the three philosophers was not further evaluated.)
• Weinberg, J. M. (2014, Spring). What is the a priori, that thou art mindful of it? (Author Meets Critics on Albert Casullo). Pacific APA. San Diego, CA: American Philosophical Association.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2013, Fall). Imagination & Belief, Fiction & Non-Fiction. American Society for Aesthetics National meeting. San Diego, CA.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2013, February). The Challenge of Sticking With Intuitions Through Thick and Thin. Midsouth Philosophy Conference. Memphis, Tennessee.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2013, June). What Can Experiments Do For Philosophy?. Philosophies of Philosophy. Dublin, Ireland: University College Dublin & The International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2013, Spring). Intuition Nihilism vs. Protean Crypto-Rationalism. Knowledge & Intuitions Workshop. Institute of Philosophy, London, UK.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2013, Spring). What We Can Learn from What We Can’t Imagine. Invited colloquium speaker. Siena College, New York.
• Weinberg, J. M. (2012, 2012-03-01). Epistemic Norms from the Design Stance. Conference in Honor of John Pollock. Tucson.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Weinberg, J. M. (2012, 2012-04-01). Humans as Instruments: Or, The Inevitability of Experimental Philosophy. colloquium at Williams College. Williamstown, MA.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
• Weinberg, J. M. (2012, 2012-06-01). Humans as Instruments: Or, The Inevitability of Experimental Philosophy. Workshop on Philosophical Insights. London, UK.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Weinberg, J. M. (2012, 2013-04-01). Can Disgust Be Food For Thought?. Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Seattle, WA.
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  Invited speaker for symposium, Aesthetics & Disgust.The interdisciplinary component was a substantial reliance on recent research on the psychology of disgust.;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Weinberg, J. M. (2012, 2013-04-01). Can Pragmatism Restore What Experimental Philosophy Destroys?. Midsouth Philosophy Conference. Memphis, TN.
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  ;Your Role: Keynote address;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Weinberg, J. M. (2012, 2013-04-01). Hope as a (methodological) virtue. Perspectives on Philosophical Methodology Workshop. Arche, St. Andrews, UK.
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  Capstone workshop for multiyear Arche project on philosophical methodology;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;

Others

• Weinberg, J. M., Buckwalter, W., Knobe, J., Nichols, S., Pinillos, A., Robbins, P., Sarkissian, H., & Weigel, C. (2012, October). Experimental Philosophy. Oxford Bibliographies Online.
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  ;Your Role: Sole author of section "Metaphilosophy";Electronic: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Each co-author was responsible for one section of the overall bibliography.;Type of Publication: Annotated bibliography;