The Splintered Mind

You know (I hope!) that you are conscious. How do you know that other people are conscious too? This is the classic " problem of ot...

Three years ago, I posted some optimistic reflections about how the philosophy major seemed to be recovering from its recent decline in the...

Susan Schneider, David Sahner, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Mark Bailey, and I have just posted a circulating white paper " Is AI Conscious? A...

This book is a skeptical overview of the literature on AI consciousness. We will soon create AI systems that are conscious according to ...

Why Philosophy? has published a brief interview of me on the nature and practice of philosophy. I figured I'd cross-post here. [...

Every summer, I post a prestige ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines , based on major awards nominations and "best of"...

John Searle died a couple weeks ago. Since people are sharing stories, I'll share one of my own. In the 1990s, as a philosopher of sc...

DigiDan's "Mistake" In the early 2020s, Anna Strasser, Matthew Crosby, David Schwitzgebel, and I built and tested a Large La...

Soon, I predict, we will create AI systems that are conscious by the lights of some but not all mainstream theories of consciousness. Beca...

... but what explains the change? For about 25 years, from the 1990s to the mid 2010s, the percentage of women earning PhDs in philosophy ...

Most scientists and philosophers of mind accept some version of what I'll call "substrate flexibility" (alternatively "su...

I have a new paper in draft, this time with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong . We critique three recent books that address the moral standing of no...

I propose that we define "Artificial Intelligence" in the obvious way. An entity is an AI if it is both artificial (in the relev...

Doubters of AI consciousness -- such as neuroscientist Anil Seth in a forthcoming target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences -- someti...

Since 2014, I've compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent awards nominations and "be...