Kevin Tobia

ORCID: 0000-0003-3447-9825
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  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Free Will and Agency
  • Legal Language and Interpretation
  • Comparative and International Law Studies
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence in Law
  • Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction
  • Law in Society and Culture
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • War, Ethics, and Justification
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Legal Education and Practice Innovations
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Theology and Philosophy of Evil
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Jury Decision Making Processes
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques

Georgetown University
2014-2024

University of California, Santa Barbara
2023

University of Pennsylvania
2022

Georgetown College
2022

Yale University
2015-2021

Universidad de Granada
2021

ETH Zurich
2020

University of Oxford
2014

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2012

Joshua Greene introduces his recent Moral Tribes as an "ambitious book" (2013, 5). 1 It covers a vast range of empirical and philosophical ground, including overview Greene's research in the neuroscience morality, survey current state much experimental moral philosophy related areas social sciences, ethical argument for "deep pragmatism" interpretation utilitarianism.Greene is not only ambitious coverage, but also targets.He challenges foundations many historical contemporary approaches...

10.1080/09515089.2013.871618 article EN Philosophical Psychology 2014-01-31

The advent of large language models (LLMs) and their adoption by the legal community has given rise to question: what types reasoning can LLMs perform? To enable greater study this question, we present LegalBench: a collaboratively constructed benchmark consisting 162 tasks covering six different reasoning. LegalBench was built through an interdisciplinary process, in which collected designed hand-crafted professionals. Because these subject matter experts took leading role construction,...

10.2139/ssrn.4583531 article EN SSRN Electronic Journal 2023-01-01

Abstract Psychologists and experimental philosophers have reported findings showing that in some cases ordinary people's moral intuitions are affected by factors of dubious relevance to the truth intuition. Some defend use intuition as evidence ethics arguing experts this area, philosophers’ both different from those people more reliable. We conducted two experiments indicating non-philosophers do indeed sometimes intuitions, but challenging notion better or reliable intuitions. Keywords:...

10.1080/09515089.2012.696327 article EN Philosophical Psychology 2012-06-14

10.1007/s11229-024-04512-3 article EN Synthese 2024-03-26

Journal Article Personal identity and the Phineas Gage effect Get access Kevin P. Tobia Yale University New Haven, Connecticutkevin.tobia@yale.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 75, Issue 3, July 2015, Pages 396–405, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anv041 Published: 15 June 2015

10.1093/analys/anv041 article EN Analysis 2015-06-16

A growing body of research has examined how people judge the persistence identity over time-that is, they decide that a particular individual is same entity from one time to next. While great deal progress been made in understanding types features typically consider when making such judgments, date, existing work not explored these judgments may be shaped by normative considerations. The present studies demonstrate beliefs do appear play an important role people's about persistence....

10.1111/cogs.12364 article EN Cognitive Science 2016-03-14

An increasing number of automated and artificial intelligence (AI) systems make medical treatment recommendations, including personalized which can deviate from standard care. Legal scholars argue that following such nonstandard recommendations will increase liability in malpractice, undermining the use potentially beneficial AI. However, depends part on lay judgments by jurors: when physicians AI systems, circumstances would jurors hold liable? <b>Methods:</b> To determine potential jurors’...

10.2967/jnumed.120.256032 article EN cc-by Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2020-09-25

A cross-cultural survey experiment revealed a dominant tendency to rely on rule’s letter over its spirit when deciding which behaviors violate the rule. This varied markedly across ( k = 15) countries, owing variation in impact of moral appraisals judgments rule violation. Compared with laypeople, legal experts were more inclined disregard their evaluations acts altogether and consequently exhibited stronger textualist tendencies. Finally, we evaluated plausible mechanism for emergence...

10.1073/pnas.2206531119 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022-10-25

There is a rich tradition in bioethics of gathering empirical data to inform, supplement, or test the implications normative ethical analysis. To this end, bioethicists have drawn on diverse methods, including qualitative interviews, focus groups, ethnographic studies, and opinion surveys advance understanding key issues bioethics. In so doing, they developed strong ties with neighboring disciplines such as anthropology, history, law, sociology. Collectively, these lines research flourished...

10.1080/23294515.2020.1714792 article EN AJOB Empirical Bioethics 2020-01-02

For scientific theories grounded in empirical data, replicability is a core principle, for at least two reasons. First, unless we accept to have rest on the authority of small number researchers, studies should be replicable, sense that its methods and procedure detailed enough someone else conduct same study. Second, results provide solid foundation theorizing, they also most attempts replicating original study produced them would yield similar results. The XPhi Replicability Project...

10.31234/osf.io/sxdah preprint EN 2018-04-09

Abstract Despite pervasive variation in the content of laws, legal theorists and anthropologists have argued that laws share certain abstract features even speculated law may be a human universal. In present report, we evaluate this thesis through an experiment administered 11 different countries. Are there cross‐cultural principles law? between‐subjects design, participants ( N = 3,054) were asked whether could violate procedural (e.g., applied retrospectively or unintelligible laws), also...

10.1111/cogs.13024 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Cognitive Science 2021-08-01

The Twin Earth thought experiment invites us to consider a liquid that has all of the superficial properties associated with water (clear, potable, etc.) but entirely different deeper causal (composed “XYZ” rather than H 2 O). Debates about natural kind concepts have sought accommodate an apparent fact ordinary people's judgments: Intuitively, is not water. We present results showing people do this intuition. Instead, tend judge there sense in which also it

10.1111/mila.12234 article EN Mind & Language 2019-04-29
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