Kevin P. Tobia

Yale University

Department of Philosophy

New Haven, CT 06511

United States

ETH Zurich

Center for Law & Economics

Rämistrasse 101

ZUE F7

Zürich, 8092

Switzerland

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Moral Intuitions: Are Philosophers Experts?

Philosophical Psychology, 26(5): 629-638
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 06 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2013
Kevin P. Tobia, Wesley Buckwalter and Stephen Stich
Yale University, University of Waterloo - Department of Philosophy and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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intuition, expertise defense, actor-observer bias

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Personal Identity

Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2019
David Shoemaker and Kevin P. Tobia
Independent and Yale University
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personal identity, moral psychology, true self

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Experimental Philosophy and the Philosophical Tradition

Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy, edited by Wesley Buckwalter & Justin Sytsma, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Dec 2014
Stephen Stich and Kevin P. Tobia
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Yale University
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experimental philosophy

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Testing Ordinary Meaning: An Experimental Assessment of What Dictionary Definitions and Linguistic Usage Data Tell Legal Interpreters

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 133, 2020
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2019
Kevin P. Tobia
Yale University
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legal interpretation, law and language, contracts, statutory interpretation, legal theory, legal philosophy, experimental jurisprudence, empirical legal studies, formalism, textualism, dictionaries, corpus linguistics

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How People Judge What Is Reasonable

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 70, 293-359 (2018)
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 03 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2018
Kevin P. Tobia
Yale University
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reasonable, reasonableness, reasonable person, legal theory, negligence, tort

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Review of 'Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap between Us and Them' by Joshua Greene

Philosophical Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 29 Nov 2013
Kevin P. Tobia
Yale University
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Cleanliness is Next to Morality, Even for Philosophers

Journal of Consciousness Studies 20 (11-12), 2013
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 29 Nov 2013
Kevin P. Tobia, Gretchen B. Chapman and Stephen Stich
Yale University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Personal Identity and the Phineas Gage Effect

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 May 2015 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2015
Kevin P. Tobia
Yale University
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personal identity, Phineas Gage

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Water Is and Is Not H2O

Mind & Language, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2018
Kevin P. Tobia, George Newman and Joshua Knobe
Yale University, Yale School of Management and Yale University
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Concepts, essence, essentialism, natural kinds, experimental philosophy, Twin Earth

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Experimental Philosophy's Challenge to the 'Great Tradition'

Analytica: Revista de Filosofia, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 31 Dec 2014
Stephen Stich and Kevin P. Tobia
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Yale University
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experimental philosophy

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Disparate Statistics

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 126, No. 8, 2017
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 May 2017 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2017
Kevin P. Tobia
Yale University
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Disparate Impact, Statistics, Evidence, Significance, Statistical Significance, Practical Significance

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The Effects of Cleanliness and Disgust on Moral Judgment

Philosophical Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Dec 2013
Kevin P. Tobia
Yale University
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cleanliness, disgust, moral judgment

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Does Religious Belief Infect Philosophical Analysis?

Religion, Brain & Behavior, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 19 Dec 2014
Kevin P. Tobia
Yale University
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intuition, religion, religious belief, ontological argument, modal ontological argument

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Rule Consequentialism and the Problem of Partial Acceptance

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 16(3): 643-652, 2013
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Nov 2013
Kevin P. Tobia
Yale University
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