Date of Award
Spring 4-13-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Eddy Nahmias
Second Advisor
George Graham
Third Advisor
Chris Henrich
Abstract
Sripada and Konrath (forthcoming) use Structural Equation Modeling techniques to provide empirical evidence for the claim that implicit and automatic inferences about people’s dispositions, and not normative judgments, are the driving cause behind the pattern of folk judgments of intentional action in Knobe’s (2003a) chairman case. However, I will argue that their evidence is not as strong as they claim due to the potential of methodological and statistical problems with the way they tested their model. After correcting for these problems, I show that even after accounting for the role of dispositional inferences, normative judgments are still playing a significant role in folk judgments of intentional action.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1952658
Recommended Citation
Shepard, Jason S., "Normative Judgments, 'Deep Self' Judgments, and Intentional Action." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2011.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1952658