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Although philosophers have often held that causation is a purely descriptive notion, a growing body of experimental work on ordinary causal attributions using questionnaire methods indicates that it is heavily influenced by normative information. These results have been the subject of sceptical challenges. Additionally, those who find the results compelling have disagreed about how best to explain them. In this chapter, we help resolve these debates by using a new set of tools to investigate ordinary causal attributions—the methods of corpus linguistics. We apply both more qualitative corpus analysis techniques and the more purely quantitative methods of distributional semantics to four target questions: (a) Can corpus analysis provide independent support for the thesis that ordinary causal attributions are sensitive to normative information? (b) Does the evidence coming from corpus analysis support the contention that outcome valence matters for ordinary causal attributions? (c) Are ordinary causal attributions similar to responsibility attributions? (d) Are causal attributions of philosophers different from causal attributions we find in corpora of more ordinary language? We argue that the results of our analyses support a positive answer to each of these questions.
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... Sin embargo, recientemente se ha empezado a usar otra metodología, los métodos de corpus. Varios autores defienden las ventajas de aplicar esta metodología a la hora de investigar cuestiones de filosofía del lenguaje (ver, por ejemplo, Sytsma et al. 2019;Caton 2020;Ulatowski et al. 2020; Bordonaba-Plou y Torices 2021; Hansen et al. 2021;Liao y Hansen 2022). ...
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January 2019
... We therefore decided to conduct a corpus study in which we investigated people's use of the terms 'rational' and 'irrational' by analyzing large amounts of texts. Such an approach avoids the shortcomings of questionnaire-based experimental methods, mainly because corpus studies observe people's use of terms in everyday contexts (for recent corpus-linguistic approaches to philosophical problems, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of this approach, see Sytsma et al. 2019, Reuter and Baumgartner 2024, and Chartrand 2022. ...
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January 2019
... Second, they presuppose the Responsibility View (RV). The RV maintains that the default concept of causation of ordinary causal attributions is a thick concept that also has an evaluative content akin to the concepts responsibility and accountability (Sytsma et al. 2019;Livengood, Sytsma, and Rose 2017;Sytsma, Livengood, and Rose 2012). This is why ordinary people's judgements of statements like "a causes b" do not only depend on the question of whether a is a cause of b in a strict sense but also on the question of whether a is responsible for b (Livengood, Sytsma, and Rose 2017;Knobe and Fraser 2008). ...
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