The Splintered Mind

As is well-known, mainstream Anglophone philosophy has tended to be overwhelmingly non-Hispanic White -- though there's some evidence o...

Last summer, Jordan Jackson and I scraped the bibliographies of all the main-page entries of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , the l...

I've published fifteen short, philosophically-themed science fiction stories in pro and semi-pro magazines, including in some of the mos...

Call a theory of consciousness nonlocal if two entities that are molecule-for-molecule perfectly similar in their physical structure could ...

The Difference Between Kings and Wizards In 16th century Europe, many believed that kings ruled by divine mandate and wizards wielded magi...

here: https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-24/ [Fusion Fragment cover, issue #24] I wanted to write a "robot rights" story w...

Let's grant for the sake of argument that philosophical zombies are possible: beings that are molecule-for-molecule physically and beha...

with Kevin Esterling and David Brady In deductive causal generalization, internal validity, external validity, and construct validity are ...

Earlier this week, to my surprise and delight, my PhD student Bhavya Sharma revealed that he had customized a ChatGPT on my publications and...

I have a new article out today, " Imagining Yourself in Another's Shoes vs. Extending Your Concern: Empirical and Ethical Differenc...

There comes a time in everyone's life when their 18-year-old daughter, taking their first psychology class, asks, "Parental-figure-...