Writings of 2019

Every New Year's Day, I post a retrospect of the past year's writings. Here are the retrospects of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

2019 was another good writing year. May such years keep coming!

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The biggest news is that my third book came out:

A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures, MIT Press.

If you like this blog, I think you'll like this book, since it is composed of 58 of my favorite blog posts and op-eds (among over a thousand I've published since 2006), revised and updated.

Full-length non-fiction essays appearing in print in 2019:

"A new measure of life satisfaction: The Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale" (with Seth Margolis, Daniel J. Ozer, and Sonja Lyubomirsky). Journal of Personality Assessment, 101, 621-630.

"Aiming for moral mediocrity", Res Philosophica, 96, 347-368.

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.

"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.

"The pragmatic metaphysics of belief", in Cristina Borgoni and Dirk Kindermann, eds., The Fragmented Mind.

Non-fiction essays in draft and circulating:

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

Shorter non-fiction:

"How Mengzi came up with something better than the Golden Rule" (reprint from A Theory of Jerks), Aeon Ideas (Nov. 1).

You're almost definitely more of a jerk than you think you are" (reprint from A Theory of Jerks), Literary Hub (Nov. 14).

"This test for machine consciousness has an audience problem" (with David Billy Udell), Nautilus (Dec. 20).

"Dreidel: A seemingly foolish game that contains the moral world in miniature" (reprint from A Theory of Jerks), Salon (Dec. 22).

Editing work:

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

Science fiction stories:

Gaze of Robot, Gaze of Bird, Clarkesworld (issue 151, April)

Some favorite blog posts:

Zhuangzi might prefer the passive knife to the skillful cook (Jan. 11)

Seven principles of humane PhD advising (Feb. 21)

Against the mind-package view of minds (Mar. 28)

Philosophy contest: Write a philosophical argument that convinces research participants to donate to charity (Oct. 24)

Who cares about happiness? (Nov. 14)

Self-knowledge by looking at others (Dec. 5)