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Redefine statistical significance
- Daniel J. Benjamin, James O. Berger, +69 authors V. Johnson
- Psychology, Medicine
- Nature Human Behaviour
- 2017
We propose to change the default P-value threshold for statistical significance from 0.05 to 0.005 for claims of new discoveries.
Evolution of morality
- E. Machery, R. Mallon
- 1 September 2010
© Oxford University Press, 2013. This chapter examines whether morality really evolved, as many philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and biologists claim. It distinguishes three possible… Expand
Doing without Concepts
- E. Machery
- Mathematics
- 27 February 2009
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… Expand
Semantics, cross-cultural style
- E. Machery, R. Mallon, S. Nichols, S. Stich
- Sociology, Medicine
- Cognition
- 1 July 2004
Theories of reference have been central to analytic philosophy, and two views, the descriptivist view of reference and the causal-historical view of reference, have dominated the field. In this… Expand
Concept empiricism: A methodological critique
- E. Machery
- Psychology, Medicine
- Cognition
- 1 July 2007
Thanks to Barsalou's, Damasio's, Glenberg's, Prinz' and others' work, neo-empiricism is gaining a deserved recognition in the psychology and philosophy of concepts. I argue, however, that… Expand
Concepts Are Not a Natural Kind*
- E. Machery
- Computer Science
- Philosophy of Science
- 1 July 2005
TLDR
The Folk Concept of Intentional Action: Philosophical and Experimental Issues
- E. Machery
- Sociology
- 1 April 2008
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… Expand
Against Arguments from Reference
- R. Mallon, E. Machery, S. Nichols, S. Stich
- Philosophy
- 1 September 2009
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… Expand
Why I stopped worrying about the definition of life... and why you should as well
- E. Machery
- Philosophy, Computer Science
- Synthese
- 1 March 2012
TLDR
The amodal brain and the offloading hypothesis
- E. Machery
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychonomic bulletin & review
- 9 June 2016
In this article, I argue that a growing body of evidence shows that concepts are amodal and I provide a novel interpretation of the body of evidence that was taken to support neo-empiricist theories… Expand