The Splintered Mind

In late August, about two days after I finished drafting my new paper " Borderline Consciousness, When It's Neither Determinately...

Imagine a planet on the far side of the galaxy, one we will never interact with, blocked by the galactic core so we will never see it. What...

I'm thinking about evil and human nature again. I'd like to think that everyone has some part of them that is revolted by the gross...

Since the science of consciousness is hard, it's possible that we will create conscious robots (or AI systems generally) before we know ...

In philosophy, as in the sciences , English is the globally dominant language for scholarly communication.  For those of us whose native lan...

Editors: Eric Schwitzgebel (Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside); Jonathan Jong (Centre for Trust, Peace and Socia...

The National Center for Education Statistics has released its 2020 data on Bachelor's degree recipients in the U.S. The news is fairly...

I have finally received the final published PDF of my article "The Pragmatic Metaphysics of Belief". What a pleasure and relief. ...

I aim to defend the existence of "borderline cases" of consciousness, cases in which it's neither determinately true nor deter...

[updated 10:35 a.m.] Since 2014, I've compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent awards...

Let's call a state or process a borderline case of consciousness if it is in the indeterminate gray zone between being a conscious stat...