The Splintered Mind

reflections in philosophy of psychology, broadly construed

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Your Summer Reading, Sorted!

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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...
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Friday, June 17, 2022

Dispositionalism vs. Representationalism -- What's the Core Disagreement?

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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 ...
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Friday, June 10, 2022

The Continental/Analytic Divide Is Alive and Well in Philosophy: A Quantitative Analysis

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A major sociological divide in recent Anglophone philosophy is the divide between philosophers who see themselves as working in the traditio...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Infinite Puppetry

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About a year ago, I argued in a blog post that " Everything You Do Causes Almost Everything ". If the universe is temporally in...
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Thursday, May 26, 2022

After a Taste-Bud Hiatus, Experiencing Candy Like a Six-Year-Old

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I used to blog quite a bit about weird aspects of sensory experience, back when my central research interest concerned the vagaries of intro...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Our Infinite Predecessors: Flipping the Doomsday Argument on Its Head

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The Doomsday Argument purports to show, probabilistically, that humanity will not endure for much longer: Likely, at least 5% of the humans...
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Thursday, May 12, 2022

Draft Good Practice Guide: Sexual Harassment, Caregivers, and Student-Staff Relationships

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The Demographics in Philosophy project is seeking feedback on a proposed "Good Practice" guide. Help us make this document bette...
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Friday, May 06, 2022

Everything Is Valuable

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A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to a talk by Henry Shevlin titled " Which Animals Matter? " The apparent assumption behind...
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Thursday, April 28, 2022

Will Today's Philosophical Work Still Be Discussed in 200 Years?

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I'm a couple days late to this party . Evidently, prominent Yale philosopher Jason Stanley precipitated a firestorm of criticism on ...
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Friday, April 22, 2022

Let's Hope We Don't Live in a Simulation

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reposting from the Los Angeles Times , where it appears under a different title[1] ------------------------------------------ Th...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Let Everyone Sparkle: Psychotechnology in the Year 2067

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My latest science fiction story, in Psyche . Thank you, everyone, for coming to my 60th birthday celebration! I trust that you all feel...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2022

New Essay in Draft: Dehumanizing the Cognitively Disabled: Commentary on Smith's Making Monsters

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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...
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