The Splintered Mind

Way back in April 2006, I launched The Splintered Mind. Happy 20th birthday, blog of mine! In 2006, academic blogs were cool. After t...

I offer for your consideration the following ethical motto: Do your thing. I admit: This motto doesn't sound very ethical. What if...

I've just started reading Kim Stanley Robinson 's acclaimed climate-science utopia, The Ministry for the Future . How might society...

Last week I submitted my latest book manuscript to Cambridge University Press (for their "Element" series of books about 100 pages...

It's confusing. You applied to a PhD program in philosophy in the U.S. You haven't been admitted. You haven't been rejected. ...

It's a philosophical truism that human conscious experience is unified: If you're at a bar, hearing music, tasting beer, and feeling...

Most AI systems can be precisely copied. Suppose this is also true of future conscious AI persons, if any exist. Backup and fissioning sho...

A philosophical discussion arc is a curve displaying how frequently a term appears in philosophical journal abstracts, titles, and keywords...

Philosophy should be among the most diverse of the academic disciplines. Instead, it is among the least diverse. Philosophical reflecti...

Let's define a discussion arc in philosophy as a curve displaying how frequently a term appears in philosophical journal abstracts, tit...

Our understanding of the nature of consciousness derives mainly from our understanding of the nature of consciousness in our favorite animal...

Moral diversity, Olivia Bailey and Thi Nguyen say (in a draft paper shared with Myisha Cherry's Emotion and Society Lab ), is valuable...