The Splintered Mind

A recent article by Paul Piff and collaborators, purporting to show that rich people are jerks (more formally: "higher social class p...

The is the fourth and probably last in a series of posts on why several major theorists of consciousness should attribute literal "phen...

Submissions for a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology on consciousness attribution in moral cognition are due at the en...

As some of you will know, I have an abiding interest in the moral behavior of ethics professors . I've collected a variety of evidence ...

I've been looking into data on whether ethicists are more or less likely than non-ethicists to pay their registration fees at meetings o...

Readers might be interested to see Cohen and Dennett's reply to my February 28 post on their work on reportability and consciousness (w...

In February, I argued that Daniel Dennett and Fred Dretske should, given their other views, hold that the United States is a spatially dis...

People's responses to hypothetical moral scenarios can vary substantially depending on the order in which those scenarios are presented ...

I was struck by the following imaginary dialogue in a recent article by Michael Cohen and Daniel Dennett . In the dialogue, P is a patien...

Faculty who want NEH to pay for them to spend this July in Tucson studying experimental philosophy with some of the top experimental philoso...

... here . Over the last few years, I've found my thoughts about the epistemology of metaphysics leading me more toward the philosophy ...

... humorous philosophy blog, off to a hilarious start .

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Last week, I argued that Daniel Dennett should think that the United States is conscious . That is, I argued that Dennett should think that...

by the good folks at Sheffield, here .

Well, surprising and disappointing to me at least! You might be neither surprised or disappointed. Here's the background: I'm on ...

If you're reading this, you probably know who Dan Dennett is. His book Consciousness Explained is probably the best-known contemporar...

A new blog targeted at philosophy students, by Jesse Steinberg at Pitt-Bradford.

It is only natural that, when confronted with timeless and confounding questions, your friends should turn to you, the philosopher. Sooner ...

People sometimes say that increasing specialization within philosophy means that there could never be another figure like Locke or Hume or K...