Social Functional Analysis of Folk Psychological Concepts by the Synthesis of Empirical and Non-Empirical Methods

• Project/Area Number: 26770006
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Kasaki Masashi 京都大学, 文学研究科, 研究員 (60713576)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
• Keywords: 民間心理学 / 意図的行為 / 知識 / 信頼 / Knobe効果 / 副作用効果 / 概念の社会機能分析 / 意図性 / ノーブ効果 / 機械倫理 / 実験哲学 / 国際情報交換 イギリス、アメリカ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims at analyzing the functions of folk psychology by synthesizing the non-empirical method of philosophy and the empirical method of psychology. Using the synthesized method, the research attempts to examine, in particular, the hypothesis that folk psychology includes normative functions, and to falsify the hypothesis that it only includes predictive and explanatory functions. As a result, empirical evidence has been acquired that "intentionally acting," "knowing," "trusting" have normative functions. In addition, it has been shown that they behave differently between English and Japanese.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Trust and Artifacts (2014)
  • Author(s): Fabio Dalla Libera, Masashi Kasaki, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Tora Koyama
  • Journal Title: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations, Proceedings of Robo-Philosophy 2014 Volume: 273 Pages: 231-240
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Definite Descriptions and the Alleged East-West Variation in Intuitions about Reference (2016)
  • Author(s): Yu Izumi, Masashi Kasaki, Yan Zhou, Sobei H. Oda
  • Organizer: American Philosophical Asociation Central Division Meeting 2016
  • Place of Presentation: Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois（アメリカ）
  • Year and Date: 2016-03-04
• [Presentation] ロボット倫理と安心社会 (2015)
  • Author(s): 笠木雅史
  • Organizer: 安心安全社会システムシンポジウム2015
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪大学（大阪府、豊中市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-12-18
• [Presentation] ロボット倫理と信頼研究 (2015)
  • Author(s): 笠木雅史
  • Organizer: 第7回安心・信頼・技術・研究会例会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪大学（大阪府、豊中市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-12-10
• [Presentation] Definite Descriptions and the Alleged East-West Variation in Intuitions about Reference (2015)
  • Author(s): Yu Izumi, Masashi Kasaki, Yan Zhou, Sobei H. Oda
  • Organizer: Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference 2015
  • Place of Presentation: State University of New York, Buffalo（アメリカ）
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-12
• [Presentation] Philosophical Reflections on Trustworthy Machines: What is It to Trust Machines? (2015)
  • Author(s): Masashi Kasaki
  • Organizer: IEEE RO-MAN 2015
  • Place of Presentation: Kobe International Conference Center（兵庫県、神戸市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-30
• [Presentation] 実験哲学と言語哲学：確定記述と作られた文化的差異 (2015)
  • Author(s): 和泉悠, 笠木雅史, 周艶, 小田宗兵衛
  • Organizer: 2015年度哲学若手研究者フォーラム
  • Place of Presentation: 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター（東京都、渋谷区）
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-15
• [Presentation] The Knobe Effect in Japanese: How Intentionality Judgements are (not) Affected by Cultural Differences (2015)
  • Author(s): Masashi Kasaki, Yan Zhou, Sobei H. Oda
  • Organizer: 6th Conference of Experimental Philosophy Group UK
  • Place of Presentation: University of Nottingham（イギリス）
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-30
• [Presentation] The Knobe Effect Reconsidered: Uncertainty, Expectation and Relativity in the Judgment of Intentionality (2015)
  • Author(s): Yan Zhou, Masashi Kasaki, Sobei H. Oda
  • Organizer: 6th Conference of Experimental Philosophy Group UK
  • Place of Presentation: University of Nottingham（イギリス）
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-29
• [Presentation] An Experimental Economics Approach to the Knobe Effect (2015)
  • Author(s): Yan Zhou, Masashi Kasaki, Sobei H. Oda
  • Organizer: Society for Computational Economics - Computing in Economics and Finance
  • Place of Presentation: Taipei（台湾）
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-21
• [Presentation] 信頼性、安全、機械 (2014)
  • Author(s): 笠木雅史
  • Organizer: 第11回日本日本ロボット学会安心ロボティクス研究専門員会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪大学（大阪府、豊中市）
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-01
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Creating New Waves in Philosophy of Trust (2014)
  • Author(s): Tora Koyama, Masashi Kasaki
  • Organizer: Second Conference on Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学（京都府、左京区）
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-28
• [Presentation] Trust and Artifacts (2014)
  • Author(s): Fabio Dalla Libera, Masashi Kasaki, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Tora Koyama
  • Organizer: Robo-Philosophy 2014: Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations
  • Place of Presentation: Aarhus University（デンマーク）
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-22
• [Presentation] 信頼と責任：信頼の認識論的、倫理的次元 (2014)
  • Author(s): 笠木雅史
  • Organizer: 第3回安心、信頼、技術研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪大学（大阪府、吹田市）
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-31
• [Presentation] 信頼の哲学、心理学的分析から考える人工物の信頼性 (2014)
  • Author(s): 笠木雅史
  • Organizer: 平成26年度第1回社会知能研究会「人とモノとの間に生起するコト: 工学と哲学の視点から見える問題」
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪大学中之島センター（大阪府、大阪市）
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-02
  • Invited
• [Remarks] 京都産業大学経済実験室 研究の概要
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