Philip Robbins

Philip Robbins
Associate Professor, Department Chair
235 Middlebush Hall
(573) 882-2764
Faculty
Education

PhD, University of Chicago

AB, Harvard University 

Research

Experimental Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Psychology

Teaching

Aesthetics, Applied Epistemology, Ethics, Experimental Philosophy, Logic, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Psychology

Select Publications

"Of machines and men: Attributions of moral responsibility in AI-assisted warfare," Ethics and Information Technology (2025)

"Moral categorization and mind perception," in The Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology, Cambridge University Press (2025)

"Modern moral psychology: An introduction to the terrain" (with B. F. Malle), in The Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology, Cambridge University Press (2025)

The Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology (edited, with B. F. Malle), Cambridge University Press (2025)

"Deformative experience: Explaining the effects of adversity on moral evaluation" (with F. Alvear), Social Cognition (2023)

"Good deeds and hard knocks: The effect of past suffering on praise for moral behavior" (with F. Alvear and P. Litton), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2021)

"Crime, punishment, and causation: The effect of etiological information on the perception of moral agency" (with P. Litton), Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (2018)

"Modularity of mind," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2017)

"Philosophizing the social brain," Cognitive Systems Research (2015)

"More than a feeling: Counterintuitive effects of compassion on moral judgment" (with A. I. Jack et al.), in J. Sytsma (ed.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind, Bloomsbury Academic (2014)

"Modularity and mental architecture," WIREs Cognitive Science (2013)

"The phenomenal stance revisited" (with A. I. Jack), Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2012)

"Experimental philosophy" (with J. Knobe et al.), Annual Review of Psychology (2012)

Office Hours

By appointment (Summer 2025)

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