Writings of 2017

It's a tradition for me now, posting a retrospect of the past year's writings on New Year's Day. (Here are the retrospects of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.)

I'm proud of what I've managed to write in the past year. May 2018 be similarly fruitful!

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Full-length non-fiction essays appearing in print in 2017:

"Rationalization in moral and philosophical thought" (with Jonathan Ellis), in Moral Inferences, ed. J.-F. Bonnefon and B. Tremoliere (Psychology Press).

"1% skepticism", Noûs, 51, 271-290.

"Women in philosophy: Quantitative analyses of prevalence, visibility, and generational change" (with Carolyn Jennings), Public Affairs Quarterly, 31, 83-105.

Full-length non-fiction finished and forthcoming:

"The insularity of Anglophone philosophy: Quantitative analyses" (with Linus Ta-Lun Huang, Andrew Higgins, and Ivan Cabrera Gonzalez, Philosophical Papers.

"Death, self, and oneness in the incomprehensible Zhuangzi", in P.J. Ivanhoe, O. Flanagan, R. Harrison, H. Sarkissian, and E. Schwitzgebel, eds., Oneness in Philosophy, Religion, and Psychology (Columbia University Press).

Shorter non-fiction:

"What happens to democracy when the experts can’t be both factual and balanced?", Los Angeles Times (Jan 27).

"Does it matter if the Passover story is literally true?", Los Angeles Times (Apr 9).

"Two-week lesson plan on lynching, the Milgram experiments, and the question of whether 'human nature is good'", Deviant Philosopher (May 19).

"Dreidel: A seemingly foolish game that contains the moral world in miniature", Los Angeles Times (Dec 12).

"Consciousness, idealism, and skepticism: Reflections on Jay Garfield’s Engaging Buddhism", Sophia (forthcoming).

Editing work:

Oneness in philosophy, religion, and psychology (with P.J. Ivanhoe, O. Flanagan, R. Harrison, and H. Sarkissian), Columbia University Press (forthcoming).

Non-fiction in draft and circulating:

"The unskilled Zhuangzi: Big and useless, and not so good at catching rats"

"Kant meets cyberpunk"

"Aiming for moral mediocrity"

"The pragmatic metaphysics of belief".

Science fiction stories:

"THE TURING MACHINES OF BABEL", Apex Magazine, issue 98(2).

"Little /^^^\&-", Clarkesworld, issue 132(2).

- translated into Vietnamese for TẠP CHÍ KHOA HỌC VIỄN TƯỞNG VIỆT NAM, issue 13, 37-60.

- collected in Web's Best Science Fiction #1, Featured Futures.

Some favorite blog posts:

Against charity in the history of philosophy (Jan 8).

The Happy-Coincidence Defense and the Most-I-Can-Do Sweet Spot (Apr 27).

How to build an immaterial computer (Sep 25).

Truth, dare, and wonder (Oct 12).

Philosophy undergraduate majors aren't very Black, but neither are they as White as you might have thought (Dec 21).

Selected interviews:

Interview with author Eric Schwitzgebel, Apex Magazine, Jul 12 (concerning my story THE TURING MACHINES OF BABEL).

Eric Schwitzgebel on introspection, AI, and consciousness, Singularity Bros, Nov 13.

Eric Schwitzgebel on weird ideas and opaque minds, Rationally Speaking podcast, Oct 29.