Alex Wiegmann

Alex Wiegmann

@alexwiegmann.bsky.social

Philosopher/Cognitive Scientist at University of Heidelberg (previously Gottingen/Bochum/Granada). Interested in deceptive communication, morality, AI, open science and stuff.

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🚨Publication Alert🚨 “Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?” 5 years in the making ~ 5000 participants 10 countries 6 languages Forthcoming in American Psychologist With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr. Short thread and preprint below

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Tomorrow! Thursday 30th, at 10:00 PDT / 18:00 CET "Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving" by Kristan Brodie and @eschwitz.bsky.social. First talk of the @xphijournal.bsky.social series, organized by @alexwiegmann.bsky.social and Celso Vieira. philevents.org/event/show/1...

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In one condition, we asked whether the speaker lied, in another whether what s/he said was true or false. Although DIs can be considered borderline cases (true on the explicit level, false on the implicit level), we found a high degree of similarity between the ten countries.

In our main experiment, we presented participants from ten countries (Chile, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, UK, US) with ten cases of deceptive implicatures (DIs). DIs are literally true but can nevertheless trick the hearer into a false belief.

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atest papers: Somogy Varga, Andrew J. Latham & Edouard Machery investigate the influence of evaluative judgments, specifically regarding an individual’s moral character, on judgments of health and disease in this #openaccess paper

doi.orgThe Wicked and the IllThis study investigates the influence of evaluative judgments, specifically regarding an individual’s moral character, on judgments of health and disease. Though it might seem that judgments of hea...

Got a shameless review invitation today: "As the reviewer, you should hold a PhD degree and publish 3-5 papers in the field of the manuscript. If you meet the requirements and would like to review this manuscript within 1 week, please send a short CV [1/2]

Two points of our motivation: 1. Reclaiming the means of production 😉 (scientists doing the work, whereas publishers making the money by charging the people whose taxes are used to pay the scientists does not seem right)

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🔥Exciting news in experimental philosophy🔥 Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”. It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles. Editors and Editorial Board below. More information coming soon...

2. Experimental philosophers often have to compromise: Publishing in empirical journal often means to cut the philosophical aspects, while publishing in philosophy often comes with cuts regarding the empirical aspects

We are very grateful to the “Fachinformationsdienst Philosophie” who provides the hosting environment and helps to get the whole thing starting. We hope this and similar initiatives will become popular soon.

🔥Exciting news in experimental philosophy🔥 Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”. It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles. Editors and Editorial Board below. More information coming soon...

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🚨paper alert🚨 with Emanuel Viebahn Can you lie with pictures? Some (says-based) theories deny this possibility but lay people clearly think you can lie with pictures – and in at least three different ways. Forthcoming in AJP. Short thread with link to paper below.

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Three candidates for lying with pictures: 1. Content lie: Manipulation of the picture (removing the scratch via Photoshop) 2. Target lie: Picture is not manipulated, but taken when there was no scratch yet 3. Misleading: The picture shows the side of the bike without the scratch

🚨paper alert🚨 with Emanuel Viebahn Can you lie with pictures? Some (says-based) theories deny this possibility but lay people clearly think you can lie with pictures – and in at least three different ways. Forthcoming in AJP. Short thread with link to paper below.