The Splintered Mind

(with Sophie R. Nelson) One philosophical inclination I shared with the late Dan Dennett is a love of weird perspectives on consciousn...

What are dreams like, experientially? One common view is that dreams are like hallucinations . They involve sensory or sensory-like exp...

(with Jeremy Pober) Over the past several years, I've posted a few times on what I call the "Copernican Argument" for thin...

Reading the ancient Chinese philosophers Xunzi and Zhuangzi, I am inspired to articulate an ethics of harmonizing with the dao (the "wa...

[Note: This is a long and dense post. Buckle up.] In one chapter of his influential 1996 book , David Chalmers defends the view that conscio...

This coming winter quarter (Jan 10 - Mar 20), I'll be teaching a graduate seminar on "Robot, Alien, and AI Consciousness".  As...

What is it to desire or value something? Is it to feel a certain way? Is it instead to have a certain sort of representational architect...

The Silent Generation (born 1928-1945) is disproportionately represented among the most-cited authors in the  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philo...

Old age can be a silent tribute to beauty. I imagine my own case. Maybe I live the tail end of my life alone in elder care. My wife, s...

Let's call an artificially intelligent system a person (in the ethical, not the legal sense) if it deserves moral consideration similar...