Using Cognitive Insights to Explore Action and Morality
Purdue Normativity and Cognitions (PuNCs) Lab
The PuNCs (Purdue Normativity and Cognitions) Lab is our dedicated experimental philosophy lab at Purdue University, run by PI Javier Gomez-Lavin. Here we use methods from social and cognitive psychology to test philosophical intuitions about core issues in the philosophy of action, social ontology and moral psychology. We’re especially interested in understanding people’s perceptions of joint action, or working together, and the norms that generate and shape these social moments. The PuNCs Lab shares space and significant resources with the VRAI Lab without being a proper part of the VRAI Lab. Rather, the space, and many of people and resources do “double duty” as proper parts of both labs. The experimental philosophy work done by the PuNCs Lab is recognized as a central research priority of the VRAI Lab.