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15Experiments in moral and political philosophy (edited book)Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. 2024.This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains, problems, and topics. Philosophers are exploring the ways in which empirical approaches can transform our idea of the good, our understanding of the social nature of norms and morality, as well as our methods of fulfilling ethical goals. The chapters…Read more
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20Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains, problems, and topics. Philosophers are exploring the ways in which empirical approaches can transform our idea of the good, our understanding of the social nature of norms and morality, as well as our methods of fulfilling ethical goals. The chapters…Read more
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22Animal culture: But of which kind?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 90 (C): 208-218. 2021.
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22Merit Is Not Meritorious Everywhere: Fairness in First and Third Party Tasks among Kogi ChildrenJournal of Cognition and Culture 22 (3-4): 246-263. 2022.Experimental research has studied the emergence of fairness criteria such as merit and equality at increasingly younger ages. How much does the recognition and practice of these principles depend on the influence of central aspects of Western educated and industrialized societies? In an attempt to answer these questions, this article provides evidence regarding the choices of children in the Kogi indigenous community of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a traditional society living in the mounta…Read more
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The dual nature of partisan prejudice: Morality and Identity in a multiparty sistemPLoS ONE 14 (e0219509). 2019.
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1861Normas socialesEnciclopedia Online de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica. forthcoming.
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25Introducción a la ética experimentalEditorial Cátedra. 2020.En el terreno de la moral, el contraste entre lo ¿que el filósofo Wilfrid Sellars denominó «la ¿imagen manifiesta» y la «imagen científica» es enorme y tiene unas consecuencias prácticas ineludibles. Este libro reduce la distancia entre esa imagen manifiesta y la imagen científica, dotando al lector de referencias fundamentales, enfoques diversos y un amplio abanico de temáticas a partir de investigaciones experimentales sobre nuestra conducta moral.
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69Absolutely Right and Relatively Good: Consequentialists See Bioethical Disagreement in a Relativist LightAJOB Empirical Bioethics 12 (3): 190-205. 2021.Background Contemporary societies are rife with moral disagreement, resulting in recalcitrant disputes on matters of public policy. In the context of ongoing bioethical controversies, are uncompromising attitudes rooted in beliefs about the nature of moral truth?Methods To answer this question, we conducted both exploratory and confirmatory studies, with both a convenience and a nationally representative sample (total N = 1501), investigating the link between people’s beliefs about moral truth (…Read more
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27To kill a bee: The aptness and moralistic heuristics of reactive attitudesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 41. 2018.
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43Is God an Adaptation?: Robert Wright’s, The Evolution of God, Little Brown, 2009Philosophia 39 (2): 397-408. 2011.In this critical notice to Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God, we focus on the question of whether Wright’s God is one which can be said to be an adaptation in a well defined sense. Thus we evaluate the likelihood of different models of adaptive evolution of cultural ideas in their different levels of selection. Our result is an emphasis on the plurality of mechanisms that may lead to adaptation. By way of conclusion we assess epistemologically some of Wright’s more controversial claims concer…Read more
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23Summer School in Cognitive Science: Minds and Societies. Communication par affiche dans un congrès, Montréal, 26 juin - 06 juillet 2008.
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5Supernatural beliefs and the evolution of cooperationIn James Liddle & Todd K. Shackelford (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion, Oxford University Press. 2016.
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42Cultural transmission and biological marketsBiology and Philosophy 33 (5-6): 40. 2018.Active cultural transmission of fitness-enhancing behavior can be seen as a costly strategy: one for which its evolutionary stability poses a Darwinian puzzle. In this article, we offer a biological market model of cultural transmission that substitutes or complements existing kin selection-based proposals for the evolution of cultural capacities. We demonstrate how a biological market can account for the evolution of teaching when individual learners are the exclusive focus of social learning. …Read more
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55Relativism of Distance - a Step in the Naturalization of Meta-EthicsEthical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (2): 311-327. 2018.Bernard Williams proposed his relativism of distance based on the recognition “that others are at varying distances from us”. Recent work in moral psychology and experimental philosophy highlights the prevalence of folk relativism in relation to spatial and temporal distance. However, Williams’ relativism of distance as well as recent empirical findings which seem to support some of Williams’ main ideas on this issue have received scant attention. In this article, we would like to focus on the p…Read more
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333Estimating the Reproducibility of Experimental PhilosophyReview of Philosophy and Psychology (1): 1-36. 2018.Responding to recent concerns about the reliability of the published literature in psychology and other disciplines, we formed the X-Phi Replicability Project to estimate the reproducibility of experimental philosophy. Drawing on a representative sample of 40 x-phi studies published between 2003 and 2015, we enlisted 20 research teams across 8 countries to conduct a high-quality replication of each study in order to compare the results to the original published findings. We found that x-phi stud…Read more
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230Correction to: Estimating the Reproducibility of Experimental PhilosophyReview of Philosophy and Psychology 12 (1): 45-48. 2018.Appendix 1 was incomplete in the initial online publication. The original article has been corrected.
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Los desafíos del altruismo. A propósito de los precursores evolutivos de la moralThémata: Revista de Filosofía 41 591-608. 2009.
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33Modules for all seasons? Domain-specificity, ecological plasticity and cultureAnálisis Filosófico 28 (1): 49-75. 2008.A theoretical divide exists on the study of the adapted psychological mechanisms underlying human culture. It has been said for instance that we evolved a brain for all seasons and that this is opposed to the framework of the modularity of mind. We approach the nature of these explanatory differences based on what we judge to be a misunderstanding with respect to the evolution of domain-specific modules. We underline the fact that the input-domain of a module and its ecological function should n…Read more
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9Communication par affiche dans un congrès, Saint Andrews, Ecosse, 6-8 avril 2009 : Cultaptation Conference.
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47The animal variations: When mechanisms matter in accounting for functionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (4): 424-425. 2007.We contend that Ramsey et al.'s definition of animal innovation sensu process may be partially misleading when investigating mechanisms underlying animal innovation. By excluding social learning from the of innovation, they may be reproducing a dichotomous schema that does not accurately correspond to our knowledge of the acquisition of novel behavioral variants. This gives us some reason to doubt the functional specification of the defined process of innovation