We are delighted to announce the next in our series of Brains Blog Roundtables. The topic of this discussion is values in cognitive science!

Please join us and our great panelists, Sam Liao (University of Puget Sound), Uwe Peters (University of Bonn and Cambridge University), and Morgan Thompson (Bielefeld University), for a great discussion! We talk about the difficulties in studying value-laden concepts, how values shape cognitive science inquiry, controversies surrounding implicit bias, and even some aesthetics!

Please see below for links to material cited in the video. Previous roundtables can be viewed at philosophyofbrains.com/category/roundtables.

Sam Liao

Website: liao.shen-yi.org

Shen-yi Liao and Bryce Huebner. Oppressive things. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12701

Shen-yi Liao and Vanessa Carbonell. Materialized Oppression in Medical Tools and Technologies. American Journal of Bioethics. doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2022.2044543

Shen-yi Liao and Nat Henson. ‘Extremely Racist’ and ‘Incredibly Sexist’: An Empirical Response to the Charge of Conceptual Inflation. Journal of the American Philosophical Association. philpapers.org/rec/LIAERA

Shen-yi Liao, Aaron Meskin, and Joshua Knobe. Dual Character Art Concepts. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. doi.org/10.1111/papq.12301

Uwe Peters

Website: uwepeters.weebly.com

Uwe Peters. Algorithmic political bias in artificial intelligence systems. Philosophy and Technology. philpapers.org/rec/PETAPB

Morgan Thompson

Website: morgankthompson.com

Morgan Thompson. Psychological Research on Racial Microaggressions: Community Science and Concept Explication. In Microaggressions and Philosophy. Eds. Lauren Freeman and Jeanine Weekes Schroer. Routledge. morgankthompson.com/research.html

Liam Kofi Bright, Daniel Malinsky, and Morgan Thompson. Causally interpreting intersectionality theory. Philosophy of Science. doi.org/10.1086/684173

Other Works Cited:

Robyn Bluhm. Self‐fulfilling prophecies: The influence of gender stereotypes on functional neuroimaging research on emotion. Hypatia. doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2012.01311.x

Katherine Phillips. What is the real value of diversity in organizations? Questioning our assumptions. In S. Page (Ed.), The diversity bonus (pp. 223–245). Princeton: Princeton University Press. doi.org/10.1515/9781400888269

Patricia Hill Collins. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge. amzn.to/3I8joEc

Michael Stuart, David Colaço, and Edouard Machery. P-curving x-phi: Does experimental philosophy have evidential value? Analysis. doi.org/10.1093/analys/anz007

Other Scholars Cited:

Peter Carruthers:  faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/

Elizabeth Anderson:  www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/

Meena Krishnamurthy:  meenakrishnamurthy.net/

Sally Haslanger:  sallyhaslanger.weebly.com/research.html

Bryce Huebner:  brycehuebner.weebly.com/papers.html

Peter Railton: lsa.umich.edu/philosophy/people/faculty/prailton.html

Edouard Machery:  edouardmachery.com/

Jennifer Saul: uwaterloo.ca/scholar/j3saul

Valerie Soon:  valeriesoon.com/

Keith Payne:  bkpayne.web.unc.edu/publications/