The Splintered Mind

reflections in philosophy of psychology, broadly construed

Friday, May 16, 2025

The Awesomeness of Bad Art

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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...
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Thursday, May 08, 2025

Everything Is Sandcastles

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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...
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Friday, May 02, 2025

When Is a Theory Superficial?

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by Jeremy Pober and Eric Schwitzgebel Twelve years ago, one of us (ES) distinguished two kinds of theories: superficial and deep. Nearly ...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

People with Unusual, Minority, Culturally Atypical, or Historically Underrepresented Experiences and Worldviews Should be Overrepresented in Philosophy, Rather than Underrepresented

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Saturday's post finding that only 16% of Authors in Elite Philosophy Journals Are Women brought out the misogynist bros on Twitter, but...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

16% of Authors in Elite Philosophy Journals Are Women

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In some ways, the gender situation has been improving in philosophy. Women now constitute about 40% of graduating majors in philosophy in ...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Harmonizing with the Dao: Sketch of an Evaluative Framework

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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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Wednesday, April 09, 2025

New Paper in Draft: Superficialism about Belief, and How We Will Decide That Robots Believe

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Comments welcome, as always, by email, as comments on this blog post, or through social media. This is intended as a submission to a specia...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Further Reflections on the Most-Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Underranked Works and Concentration Percentage

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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...
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Monday, March 31, 2025

The Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Authors of the Most-Cited Works of Mainstream Anglophone Philosophy

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As is well-known, mainstream Anglophone philosophy has tended to be overwhelmingly non-Hispanic White -- though there's some evidence o...
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Friday, March 28, 2025

The 253 Most Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Last summer, Jordan Jackson and I scraped the bibliographies of all the main-page entries of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , the l...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Writing Short Fiction: Suggestions for Academics

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I've published fifteen short, philosophically-themed science fiction stories in pro and semi-pro magazines, including in some of the mos...
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Friday, March 14, 2025

A Dilemma for Nonlocal Theories of Consciousness

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