{"id":12641,"date":"2020-11-05T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=12641"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:36:57","slug":"cog-sci-the-essence-of-psychological-essentialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2020\/cog-sci-the-essence-of-psychological-essentialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Cog. Sci. Colloquium \u201cThe Essence of Psychological Essentialism.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cog. Sci. Colloquium \u201cThe Essence of Psychological Essentialism.\u201d\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> November 11, 2020 03:00pm -4:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> online<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> The Essence of Psychological Essentialism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Joshua Knobe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People appear to understand the social world in terms&nbsp;of&nbsp;essences. This notion plays a key role in the way that people ordinarily think about social categories (gender categories, religious categories, etc.) and also in the way that people think about individuals (the person you truly are deep down inside). But how exactly do people ascribe these essences? I present a series&nbsp;of&nbsp;new studies suggesting that people&#8217;s judgments&nbsp;of&nbsp;essence&nbsp;can be affected in surprising ways with&nbsp;value judgments.&nbsp;These results provide support for the hypothesis that people&#8217;s ordinary notion&nbsp;of&nbsp;essence&nbsp;is not a purely value-free scientific notion but a notion that is infused through and through with values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joshua Knobe is a professor at Yale University, appointed both in the program in cognitive science and in the department of philosophy. Most of his research is in the field of experimental philosophy. He has published extensively&nbsp;both in psychology journals and in philosophy journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: November 11, 2020 03:00pm -4:30pm Location: online Title: The Essence of Psychological Essentialism Speaker: Joshua Knobe Abstract: People appear to understand the social world in terms&nbsp;of&nbsp;essences. This notion plays a key role in the way that people ordinarily think about social categories (gender categories, religious categories, etc.) and also in the way that people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12644,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions\/12644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}