The Splintered Mind

I love bad art. Gather some friends and create some bad music . Cruise in a car covered with graffiti doodles . Hand a five-year-old cra...

Yesterday, Rivka Weinberg spoke at UCR from her forthcoming book, The Meaning of It All, on how time erodes meaning. As is often noted, i...

by Jeremy Pober and Eric Schwitzgebel Twelve years ago, one of us (ES) distinguished two kinds of theories: superficial and deep. Nearly ...

Saturday's post finding that only 16% of Authors in Elite Philosophy Journals Are Women brought out the misogynist bros on Twitter, but...

In some ways, the gender situation has been improving in philosophy. Women now constitute about 40% of graduating majors in philosophy in ...

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to an ethics of harmonizing with the Dao . Invoking "the Dao" might sound mystical, non-Wester...

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A couple of weeks ago, I published a list of the 253 most-cited works since 1900 in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . (The SEP had...

As is well-known, mainstream Anglophone philosophy has tended to be overwhelmingly non-Hispanic White -- though there's some evidence o...

Last summer, Jordan Jackson and I scraped the bibliographies of all the main-page entries of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , the l...

I've published fifteen short, philosophically-themed science fiction stories in pro and semi-pro magazines, including in some of the mos...

Call a theory of consciousness nonlocal if two entities that are molecule-for-molecule perfectly similar in their physical structure could ...