Essays of 2012

2012 was a good research year for me.

These essays appeared in print in 2012:

• Introspection, what?  In Smithies & Stoljar, eds., Introspection and Consciousness (Oxford).
• Self-ignorance.  In Liu & Perry, eds., Consciousness and the Self (Cambridge).
• Ethicists' courtesy at philosophy conferences (with Rust, Huang, Moore, & Coates), Philosophical Psychology, 25, 331-340.
• Expertise in moral reasoning? Order effects on moral judgment in professional philosophers and non-philosophers (with Cushman), Mind & Language, 27, 135-153.
• Mad belief?  Neuroethics, 5, 13-17.

These essays are finished and forthcoming:

• A dispositional approach to attitudes: Thinking outside the belief box.  In Nottelmann, ed., New essays on belief (Palgrave).
• Knowing that P without believing that P (with Myers-Schulz).  Nous.
• The moral behavior of ethics professors: Relationships among self-reported behavior, expressed normative attitude, and directly observed behavior (with Rust).  Philosophical Psychology.
• Ethicists and non-ethicists' responsiveness to student emails: Relationships among expressed normative attitude, self-described behavior, and experimentally observed behavior (with Rust).  Metaphilosophy.

These essays are currently drafted and circulating:

• The crazyist metaphysics of mind.
• If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious.
• Are ethicists any more likely to pay their registration fees at professional meetings?
• Empirical evidence for the existence of an external world (with Moore).
• The problem of known illusion and the resemblance of experience to reality.

Some favorite blog posts:

• Group minds on Ringworld.
• Do you have infinitely many beliefs about the number of planets?
• Has civilization made moral progress? Sketch of an empirical test.
• The ghettoization of Nietzsche.
• Grounds for dream skepticism.
• Steven Pinker: "Wow, how awesome we liberal intellectuals are!"
• The egg came first.

May 2013 be equally fruitful!