The Splintered Mind

I've just finished a new version of my book in draft, The Weirdness of the World . This one includes a new chapter co-written with Jaco...

I'm just back from a workshop on the nature of belief in Princeton. As usual, I defended my dispositional approach to belief (see here ...

A major sociological divide in recent Anglophone philosophy is the divide between philosophers who see themselves as working in the traditio...

About a year ago, I argued in a blog post that " Everything You Do Causes Almost Everything ". If the universe is temporally in...

I used to blog quite a bit about weird aspects of sensory experience, back when my central research interest concerned the vagaries of intro...

The Doomsday Argument purports to show, probabilistically, that humanity will not endure for much longer: Likely, at least 5% of the humans...

The Demographics in Philosophy project is seeking feedback on a proposed "Good Practice" guide. Help us make this document bette...

A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to a talk by Henry Shevlin titled " Which Animals Matter? " The apparent assumption behind...

I'm a couple days late to this party . Evidently, prominent Yale philosopher Jason Stanley precipitated a firestorm of criticism on ...

reposting from the Los Angeles Times , where it appears under a different title[1] ------------------------------------------ Th...

My latest science fiction story, in Psyche . Thank you, everyone, for coming to my 60th birthday celebration! I trust that you all feel...

by Eric Schwitzgebel and Amelia Green[1] Since the essay is short, we post the entirely of it below. This is a draft. Comments, correcti...