What I Wrote in 2013

I hope it is not too vain to begin 2014 with a retrospect of what I wrote in 2013. I kind of enjoy gathering it here -- it helps convince me that my solitary office labors are not a waste -- and maybe some readers will find it useful.

This work appeared in print in 2013:

• Perplexities of Consciousness, MIT Press paperback release (hardcover release 2011).
• "A dispositional approach to the attitudes: Thinking outside of the belief box", in N. Nottelmann, ed., New Essays on Belief (Palgrave).
• "Knowing that P without believing that P" (with Blake Myers-Schulz), Nous 47, 371-384.
• "Are ethicists any more likely to pay their registration fees at professional meetings?" Economics & Philosophy 29, 371-380.
• "Ethicists' and non-ethicsts' responsiveness to student emails: Relationships among expressed normative attitude, self-described behavior, and experimentally observed behavior" (with Joshua Rust), Metaphilosophy 44, 350-371.
• Book symposium on Perplexities of Consciousness at Philosophical Studies, with my precis, commentaries by Uriah Kriegel, Declan Smithies, and Maja Spener, and my reply.
• A special issue of Economics & Philosophy (co-edited with James Konow) on Experiments in Economics and Philosophy, with an introduction by James Konow, Cristina Bicchieri, Jason Dana, Maria Jimenez-Buedo, and me.
• "Expertise in moral reasoning? Order effects on moral judgment in professional philosophers and non-philosophers" (with Fiery Cushman), in Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols, eds., Experimental Philosophy, vol. 2 (Oxford, reprint of article originally published in Mind & Language in 2012).
• "Reinstalling Eden" (with R. Scott Bakker), Nature 503, 562.

This work is finished and forthcoming:

• "The moral behavior of ethicists and the role of the philosopher", in Hannes Rusch, Christoph Luetge, and Matthias Uhl, eds., Experimental Ethics (Palgrave).
• "The moral behavior of ethicists and the power of reason" (with Joshua Rust), in Jennifer Wright and Hagop Sarkissian, eds., Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology.
• "The moral behavior of ethics professors: Relationships among self-reported behavior, expressed normative attitude, and directly observed behavior" (with Joshua Rust), in Philosophical Psychology.
• "The problem of known illusion and the resemblance of experience to reality", in Philosophy of Science, supplemental issue (PSA 2012).

This work is in draft and circulating:

• "The crazyist metaphysics of mind".
• "If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious".
• "Experimental evidence for the existence of an external world" (with Alan T. Moore).
• "Do ethics classes influence student behavior?".
• "The tyrant's headache".

Some favorite blog posts:

• "On trusting your sense of fun" (Jan. 2).
• "The jerk-sweetie spectrum" (Apr. 17).
• "A somewhat impractical plan for immortality" (Apr. 22).
• "Tree" (May 17).
• "What a non-effect looks like" (Aug. 7).
• "The experience of reading: imagery, inner speech, and seeing the words on the page" (with Alan T. Moore, Aug. 28).
• "Skepticism, Godzilla, and the artificial computerized many-branching you" (Nov. 15).

Also in 2013, I began writing short speculative fiction in earnest.  I am not sure how this will turn out; I think it's too early for me to know if I'm any good at it.  My first effort, a collaboration with professional fiction writer R. Scott Bakker, appeared in Nature ("Reinstalling Eden", listed above).  I wish I could post drafts on my website and solicit feedback, as I do with my philosophy articles, but fiction venues seem to dislike that.

Update January 2:
I fear the ill-chosen title of this post might give some people the misleading impression that I wrote all of this material during 2013.  Most of the work that appeared in print was finalized before 2013, and a fair portion of the other work was at least in circulating draft before 2013.  Here's how things stood at the end of 2012; lots of overlap!