The Splintered Mind

Now that my Jerk Quiz has been picked up by The Sun and The Daily Mail , I've finally hit the big time! I'm definitely listing th...

Take this simple quiz to figure out if you're a jerk! (George Musser and the folks at Nautilus thought it would be fun to have a qui...

Tonight in Palm Desert , I'm presenting my "Theory of Jerks (and Sweethearts)" to a general audience. (Come!) In my past w...

Our own moral character is largely unknown to us. Lots of jerks think they're just swell. Lots of saints and sweethearts suffer from...

The past few days, I've been appreciating the Grinch 's perspective on Christmas -- particularly his desire to drop all the presents...

As you might know, I'm working on a theory of jerks . Here's the central idea a nutshell: The jerk is someone who culpably fails to...

Bernard Williams begins his classic Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy with a quote from Plato: It is not a trivial question, Socrates sa...

A central question of moral epistemology is, or should be: Am I a jerk? Until you figure that one out, you probably ought to be cautious in...

I'm working on theory of jerks and I need data. In the comments section, I'm hoping some of you (ideally, lots of you) will describ...

The nature and management of assholes -- or as I generally prefer to say, jerks -- deserves far more attention than it has received thus fa...

A recent article by Paul Piff and collaborators, purporting to show that rich people are jerks (more formally: "higher social class p...

Most jerks, I assume, don't know that they're jerks. This raises, of course, the question of how you can find out if you're a j...

Almost no one who is a jerk thinks he's a jerk. So how do you know if you are one? The ordinary devices of introspection won't do ...