{"pk":26154,"title":"Stereotype-Based Intuitions: A Psycholinguistic Approach to ExperimentalPhilosophy’s ‘Sources Project’","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Experimental philosophy’s ‘sources project’ seeks to developpsychological explanations of philosophically relevantintuitions which help us assess their evidentiary value. Thispaper develops a psycholinguistic explanation of intuitionsprompted by brief philosophical case-descriptions. For proofof concept, we target intuitions underlying a classic paradoxabout perception (‘argument from hallucination’). We tracethem to stereotype-driven inferences automatically executedin verb comprehension. We employ a forced-choiceplausibility-ranking task to show that contextuallyinappropriate stereotypical inferences are made from lesssalient uses of the verb “to see”. This yields a debunkingexplanation which resolves the philosophical paradox.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Experimental philosophy; Sources Project;stereotype-driven inference; graded salience."}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nr3b4hr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Eugen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fischer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of East Anglia","department":""},{"first_name":"Paul","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Engelhardt","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of East Anglia","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26154/galley/15790/download/"}]}