The Splintered Mind

guest post by Amy Kind Thanks to Eric for inviting me for to take a stint as guest blogger here at The Splintered Mind . I’ve been having...

I've been writing a post on whether and why people should behave morally better after studying ethics. So far, I remain dissatisfied wi...

Last night, I finished Toby Ord's fascinating and important book, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity . This h...

Every New Year's Day, I post a retrospect of the past year's writings. Here are the retrospects of 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 201...

It's good that our children rebel. We wouldn't want each generation to overcontrol the values of the next. For similar reasons, ...

If hedonic theories of value are true, we have compelling moral and prudential reason to invest large amounts of resources to improving th...

My son David and I have been working on an essay about the wisdom of Uncle Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender . (David is a graduate studen...

Published rankings of philosophers' impact or importance might contribute to reinforcing toxic hierarchies, amplifying academia's ...

You're a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender . Of course you are! How could you not be? (Okay, if you don't know what I'm talkin...

December 1 deadline coming up in one week! Reposting from Sep 6 : What Is Belief? Call for Abstract Submissions  Editors: Eric Schwitzgebel ...

GPT-3 is a computer program trained on a huge database of internet text and designed to produce language outputs that look human. Given ...