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XPhil replication project

Philosophre Florian Cova, a participant in the project, writes:

Here is an information that might be of interest to the readers of Leiter Reports. In 2016, several experimental philosophers (including me) have teamed for a wide-scale replication project involving the replication of 40 experimental philosophy studies. In the wake of the replication crisis in psychology, it indeed seemed necessary to assess the reliability of results in experimental philosophy. The results of the projects are now out and can be found:

*Here for a detail presentation: https://psyarxiv.com/sxdah

*Here for a summary: https://sites.google.com/site/thexphireplicabilityproject/outputs

Overall, the rate of successful replication was quite high.

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