Experimental argument analysis: Reasoning with stereotypes
I am currently a Senior Research Associate at UEA working on project “Experimental argument analysis: Reasoning with stereotypes” (PI: Eugen Fischer, Co-I: Paul Engelhardt). The project is funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
This interdisciplinary project develops the new research program of experimental argument analysis (EAA). We use psycholinguistic methods (eye-tracking, visual world paradigm and behavioural studies) to study automatic comprehension inferences and deploy findings to assess reconstructions of philosophical arguments. For proof of concept, we have analyses influential arguments from the philosophy of perception: the argument from illusion and the argument from hallucination. Experimental findings support novel reconstructions that expose previously overlooked fallacies. The project focuses on inferences from polysemous words examining appearance (e.g. “look”, “appear”, “seem”) and perception verbs (e.g. “see”, “be aware of”, “imagine”). See more info here.