ByrdNick, Are #philosophy students’ intuitions about thought experiments different because of expertise?
Longitudinal studies of philosophy and #CogSci students (N = 226) didn't seem to reveal as much: there were some group differences in intuitions, but a selection/indoctrination effect seemed more likely than “a general expertise” or “expertise specific to particular subfields”.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04316-x
#xPhi #expertise #teaching #edu #decisionMaking #ethics #epistemology #language #PhilMind
Pages 11 and 14 showing more sample information and a self-replicated result: philosophy students preferred philosophers' orthodox response to thought experiments about accidentally true belief (a.k.a., Gettier cases).
Pages 17 and 18 showing small or unreliable difference in intuitions about other cases between philosophy and cog. sci. cases.
Pages 38 and 39 showing small differences in confidence between philosophy and cog. sci. students (with lower confidence from the former). Page 39 shows no differences in judgments among students who continued in the study compared to those who dropped out.