About Adam

Adam received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Florida State University in August 2008. His dissertation director was Al Mele. In addition to directing the Behavioral Philosophy Lab, he teaches a variety of courses in both Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies at Schreiner University. He also enjoys attending athletic events at Schreiner University.

Research Interests

Adam's research is conducted in "experimental philosophy." His primary research interests are individual differences in philosophical views and discovering the corresponding proximal judgment processes associated with those differences.

Publications

  1. Feltz, A., & Cokely, E.T. (in press). Individual Differences in Theory-of-Mind Judgments: Order Effects and Side Effects. Philosophical Psychology.

  2. Cokely, E.T., & Feltz, A. (in press). Adaptive diversity and misbelief. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

  3. Feltz, A., & Zarpentine, C. (in press). Do you know more when it matters less. Philosophical Psychology.

  4. Feltz, A., & Bishop, M. (in press). The role of intuition in naturalized epistemology. In M. Milkowski & K. Talmont-Kaminski (Eds.), Beyond Description: Normativity in Naturalised Philosophy. London: College Publications.

  5. Feltz, A. (in press). Experimental Philosophy. Analyse & Kritik.

  6. Livengood, J., Sytsma, J., Feltz, A., Scheines, R., & Machery, E. (in press). Philosophical temperament. Philosophical Psychology.

  7. Feltz, A., & Cokely, E.T. (2009). Do Judgments about Freedom and Responsibility Depend on Who You Are?: Personality Differences in Intuitions about Compatibilism and Incompatibilism. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 342-350.

  8. Cokely, E.T., & Feltz, A. (2009). Adaptive variation in judgment and philosophical intuition. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 355-357.

  9. Cokely, E.T., & Feltz, A. (2009). Individual differences, judgment biases, and Theory-of-Mind: Deconstructing the intentional action side effect asymmetry. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 18-24.

  10. Feltz, A., Cokely, E.T., & Nadelhoffer, T. (2009). Natural compatibilism v. natural incompatibilism. Mind & Language, 24, 1-23.

  11. Feltz, A. (2008). Problems with the appeal to intuition in epistemology. Philosophical Explorations, 11, 131-141.

  12. Feltz, A., & Cokely, E. T. (2008). The fragmented folk: More evidence of stable individual differences in moral judgments and folk intuitions. In B. C. Love, K. McRae & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1771-1776). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

  13. Nadelhoffer, T., & Feltz, A. (2008). The actor-observer bias and moral intuitions: Adding fuel to Sinnott-Armstrong's fire. Neuroethics, 1, 133-144.

  14. Feltz, A. (2007). Knowledge, moral praise, and moral side effects. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 27, 123-126.

  15. Feltz, A. (2007). The Knobe effect: A brief overview. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 28, 265-277.

  16. Feltz, A., & Cokely, E.T. (2007). An anomaly in intentional action ascriptions: More evidence of folk diversity. In D.S. McNamara & J.G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (p. 1748). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

  17. Nadelhoffer, T., & Feltz, A. (2007). Folk intuitions, slippery slopes, and necessary fictions: An essay on Saul Smilansky's free will illusionism. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 31, 202-213.

Responses to Adam's Work

  1. Nadelhoffer, T., Kvaran, T., & Nahmias, E. (in press). Temperament and intuition: A commentary on Feltz and Cokely. Consciousness and Cognition.

  2. Nadelhoffer, T. (2007). Fringe benefits, side effects, and intentional actions: A reply to Feltz. The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 27, 801-809.

Projects in Progress

  1. "How Philosophy Should Be Done: A Methodological Debate" co-edited with Max Deutsch and Michael McEachrane

  2. “Individual Differences and the Truth about Right and Wrong: Predicting Variation in Moral Intuitions” with Edward Cokely, in progress .

  3. "Economy and Intentional Action: The Knobe Effect" with BPL Students, in progress.

  4. “The Psychology of Applied Ethics” with Edward Cokely, in progress.

  5. "The Folk and Frankfurt Cases" with Jason Miller, in progress.

  6. "The Terrror of 'Terrorism': An Empirical Investigation" in progress.

  7. “Fragmented Philosophical Intuitions and Fundamental Debates in Philosophy” with Edward Cokely.

  8. "The Philosophical Heritability Argument" with Edward Cokely, in progress.