The Splintered Mind

I don't want to read your AI-generated email. Lots of reasons why, but here's the core of it: I want the text to reflect your thou...

You know (I hope!) that you are conscious. How do you know that other people are conscious too? This is the classic " problem of ot...

Philosophers usually treat skepticism as a thesis about knowledge. The skeptic about X holds that people who claim to know X don't in ...

guest post by Neil Van Leeuwen Many people feel some rational pressure to get their religious beliefs to cohere with their more mundane fact...

Usually, self-defeating arguments are bad. If say "Trust me, you shouldn't trust anyone", my claim (you shouldn't trust a...

If you want to annoy your psychology and social science friends, I have just the trick!  Gather four of them together and ask them to explai...

Wesley Buckwalter has a new podcast Journal Entries , in which philosophers spend 30-50 minutes walking listeners through the main ideas of ...

Philosophical skepticism is usually regarded as primarily a thesis about knowledge -- the thesis that we don't know some of the thin...

(with Jonathan E. Ellis ; originally appeared at the Imperfect Cognitions blog ) Last week we argued that your intelligence, vigilance,...

(with Jonathan E. Ellis ; originally appeared at the Imperfect Cognitions blog ) We’ve all been there. You’re arguing with someone – abo...

Many philosophers have argued that you should only assert what you know to be the case (e.g. Williamson 1996 ). If you don't know that ...

The U.C. Santa Cruz philosopher Jon Ellis and I are collaborating on a paper on rationalization in the pejorative sense of the term. I...