Writings of 2018

Every year on New Year's Day, I post a retrospect of the past year's writings. Here are the retrospects of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

This past year, I worked quite a bit on consciousness and Chinese philosophy, also some on AI ethics, moral psychology, belief, and the sociology of philosophy. May 2019 be similarly fruitful!

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Book forthcoming:

Jerks, Zombie Robots, and Other Philosophical Misadventures (provisional title), MIT Press.

Full-length non-fiction essays appearing in print in 2018:

"The experience of reading" (with Alan T. Moore), Consciousness & Cognition, 62, 57-68.

"Death, self, and oneness in the incomprehensible Zhuangzi", in P.J. Ivanhoe, O. Flanagan, R. Harrison, H. Sarkissian, and E. Schwitzgebel, eds., The Oneness Hypothesis, Columbia University Press.

"The insularity of Anglophone philosophy: Quantitative analyses" (with Linus Ta-Lun Huang, Andrew Higgins, and Ivan Cabrera Gonzalez), Philosophical Papers, 47, 21-48.

Full-length non-fiction essays finished and forthcoming:

"Kant meets cyberpunk", Disputatio.

"The unskilled Zhuangzi: Big and useless and not so good at catching rats", in Karyn Lai and Wai Wai Chiu, eds., Skill and Mastery. London: Roman and Littlefield.

"A new measure of life satisfaction: The Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale" (with Seth Margolis, Daniel J. Ozer, and Sonja Lyubomirsky). Journal of Personality Assessment.

"Designing AI with rights, consciousness, self-respect, and freedom" (with Mara Garza), in S.M. Liao, ed., The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. New York: Oxford.

Shorter non-fiction:

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

"Reply to Hurlburt" (with Alan T. Moore), Consciousness & Cognition, 63, 143-145.

Editing work:

In print in 2018: The Oneness Hypothesis (with P.J. Ivanhoe, O. Flanagan, R. Harrison, and H. Sarkissian), Columbia University Press.

Under contract: Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories, (with Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt). Bloomsbury Press.

Non-fiction essays in draft and circulating:

"Aiming for moral mediocrity"

"The pragmatic metaphysics of belief".

"Is there something it’s like to be a garden snail?"

Science fiction stories:

I didn't publish any new stories this year, though I have a few in draft that I plan to submit in 2019.

Some favorite blog posts:

Imagining yourself in another's shoes vs. extending your love (Jan 5).

Is consciousness sparse or abundant? Five dimensions of analysis (Feb 8).

Engaging with evil art: Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (Mar 8).

Birthday cake and a chapel (Apr 21).

Is C3P0 alive? (with Will Swanson, May 11).

Are garden snails conscious? Yes, no, or *gong* (Sep 11).

Narrative, but not philosophical argument, motivates giving to charity (with Chris McVey, Nov 21).

Selected interviews:

What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? Eric Schwitzgebel (May 8, 2018).