Mario Attie-Picker, PhD - on leave Fall 2025
Assistant Professor
Mario Attie-Picker is an assistant professor of philosophy. His research interests lie in moral psychology, experimental philosophy, and philosophy of art. Prior to joining 黑料网, he completed a doctorate in philosophy at Yale University.
Education
Ph.D in Philosophy, Yale University
Masters in Philosophy, Yale University
B.A in Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
B.A in Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Research Interests
Moral psychology, moral philosophy, experimental philosophy, philosophy of art
Publications/Research Listings
Attie-Picker, M. (Forthcoming). 'A poet with a straight left and a right hook': Words and violence in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. In Hagberg G. (Ed.), Literature Through a Philosophical Lens: The Readerly Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan.
Khan, M.A., Mikalonyt臈, E.S., Mann, S.P., Liu, P., Chu, Y., Attie-Picker, M., Buyukbabani, M.B., Savulescu, J., Hannikainen, I.R. and Earp, B.D. (2025). Personalizing AI Art Boosts Credit, Not Beauty. Technology in Society, 103055.
Venkatesan, T., Attie-Picker, M., Newman, G.E., & Knobe, J. (2025). Sad Art Gives Voice to Our Own Sadness. Cognitive Science, 49(1), e70034.
Attie-Picker, M., Venkatesan, T., Newman, G. E., & Knobe, J. (2024). On the Value of Sad Music. Journal of Aesthetic Education, 58(1), 46-65.
Attie-Picker, M. (2023). Against the Entitlement Model of Obligation. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 53(2), 138-155.
Attie-Picker, M. (2023). Obligatory Gifts: An Essay on Forgiveness.鈥�Ergo,鈥�9.
Attie鈥怭icker, M. (2022). Obligations of feeling.鈥�European Journal of Philosophy,鈥�30(4), 1282-1297.
Attie-Picker, M. (2021). Is the folk concept of luck normative?.鈥�Synthese,鈥�198(2), 1481-1515.
Cova, F., Strickland, B., Abatista, A., Allard, A., Andow, J., Attie, M., ... & Zhou, X. (2021). Estimating the reproducibility of experimental philosophy. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 9-44.
Attie-Picker, M. (2020) Does skepticism lead to tranquility? Exploring a Pyrrhonian theme.” Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, volume 3, 97-125.