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Redefine statistical significance

TLDR
The default P-value threshold for statistical significance is proposed to be changed from 0.05 to 0.005 for claims of new discoveries in order to reduce uncertainty in the number of discoveries.
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Evolution of morality

© Oxford University Press, 2013. This chapter examines whether morality really evolved, as many philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and biologists claim. It distinguishes three possible…
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Doing without Concepts

List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Permissions CHAPTER 1 CONCEPTS IN PSYCHOLOGY 1. "Concept" in Psychology 2. Evidence for the Existence of Concepts 3. What is a Psychological…
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Semantics, cross-cultural style

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Concept empiricism: A methodological critique

  • E. Machery
  • Psychology, Philosophy
    Cognition
  • 1 July 2007
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The Folk Concept of Intentional Action: Philosophical and Experimental Issues

Recent experimental findings by Knobe and others (Knobe, 2003; Nadelhoffer, 2006b; Nichols and Ulatowski, 2007) have been at the center of a controversy about the nature of the folk concept of…
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What Is a Replication?

  • E. Machery
  • Psychology, Philosophy
    Philosophy of Science
  • 10 October 2019
TLDR
It is argued that a replication is an experiment that resamples the experimental components of an original experiment that are treated as random factors and that the function of replications is, narrowly, to assess the reliability of the replicated experiments.
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Concepts Are Not a Natural Kind*

  • E. Machery
  • Psychology, Philosophy
    Philosophy of Science
  • 1 July 2005
TLDR
It is argued that a growing body of evidence suggests that concepts do not constitute a natural kind, and the notion of concept is inappropriate, if one aims at formulating scientifically relevant inductive generalizations about the human mind.
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Why I stopped worrying about the definition of life... and why you should as well

TLDR
It is concluded that scientists, philosophers, and ethicists should discard the project of defining life, because empirical evidence shows that life cannot be defined.
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Against Arguments from Reference

It is common in various quarters of philosophy to derive philosophically significant conclusions from theories of reference. In this paper, we argue that philosophers should give up on such…
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