In a 2013 paper with Sandeep Prasada and George Newman, this philosopher argued that concepts like “scientist” have a “dual-character.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this experimental philosopher at Yale who discovered that people are more likely to call a CEO’s actions “intentional” if they harm the environment as a side effect than if it benefits the environment.
ANSWER: Joshua Knobe [or Joshua Michael Knobe]
[10e] Weinberg, Nichols, and Stich’s 2001 study about these scenarios showed East Asians had differing intuitions about them. These cases from a 1963 paper show that knowledge is not justified true belief.
ANSWER: Gettier cases
[10m] Machery et al. found that East Asians were also less likely to agree with this book’s intuitions about a story in which Godel stole his theorems from Schmidt. This book attacks a “cluster theory” of one of its title concepts.
ANSWER: Naming and Necessity (by Saul Kripke)
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