The experimental philosopher Joshua Knobe is an assistant professor at Yale University. Q: What’s the first thing you read in the morning? A. As the father of a newborn, I don’t usually get to read ...

Joshua Knobe is a professor at Yale University in both the Program in Cognitive Science and the Department of Philosophy. His research focuses on systematic experimental studies designed to figure out ...

One of the most famous experiments in experimental philosophy introduced us to the Knobe Effect. It makes us think hard about what we’re saying when we say someone did something “intentionally.” In ...

Later this week, hundreds of philosophers will converge near San Francisco's Union Square for the 87th annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. Reporters from ...

Joshua Knobe is an assistant professor of cognitive science and philosophy at Yale University. He studies the role of morality in human cognition. Updated August 19, 2010, 7:00 PM If you had presented ...

Chatting with people in a public park about a hypothetical profit-hungry executive is not the way philosophers usually gain their insights. But it is how Joshua Knobe, a newly minted Ph.D. from ...

People sometimes feel that their ordinary way of making sense of the world is objective and impartial, but a growing body of research suggests that there might be more to the story. This research ...

JOSHUA KNOBE, a pioneer in the field of "experimental philosophy" at Yale, has contributed a fascinating piece to the New York Times' online philosophy forum on the intuitions of ordinary folk about ...

When thinking about philosophical questions, people often find themselves having conflicting intuitions. They feel drawn toward one answer, but also feel drawn to the exact opposite answer. Over the ...

Some philosophers today are doing more than thinking deeply. They are also conducting scientific experiments relating to the nature of free will and of good and evil ...