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Thomas Nadelhoffer
Researcher at College of Charleston
Publications - 48
Citations - 2049
Thomas Nadelhoffer is an academic researcher from College of Charleston. The author has contributed to research in topics: Free will & Experimental philosophy. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 48 publications receiving 1815 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Nadelhoffer include Dickinson College & Georgia State University.
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Surveying Freedom: Folk Intuitions about free will and moral responsibility
TL;DR: The authors found that a majority of participants judged that such agents act of their own free will and are morally responsible for their actions, and discussed the philosophical implications of their results as well as various difficulties inherent in such research.
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Is Incompatibilism Intuitive
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that incompatibilism is not intuitive to most laypersons and present empirical studies that show that it is more metaphysically demanding than compatibilist alternatives.
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Bad acts, blameworthy agents, and intentional actions: Some problems for juror impartiality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review some of the recent empirical work on the biasing effect that moral considerations have on folk ascriptions of intentional action and use Mark Alicke's affective model of blame attribution to explain this effect.
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The past and future of experimental philosophy
Thomas Nadelhoffer,Eddy Nahmias +1 more
TL;DR: Experimental philosophy is the name for a recent movement whose participants use the methods of experimental psychology to probe the way people think about philosophical issues and then examine how the results of such studies bear on traditional philosophical debates as discussed by the authors.
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The free will inventory: measuring beliefs about agency and responsibility.
TL;DR: Several ways that it could be used in future research are discussed, some as yet unanswered questions that are ripe for interdisciplinary investigation are highlighted, and researchers are encouraged to join the efforts to answer these questions.