The Splintered Mind

reflections in philosophy of psychology, broadly construed

Monday, March 29, 2010

Introspection, What?

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Never have I worked so long and hard on a paper and been as little satisfied with the result. I have various theories why. Brief abstract: ...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

On Being Good at Seeming Smart

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Once upon a time, there was a graduate student at UC Riverside whom I will call Student X. (If you are associated with UCR and think you can...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

The Boxology of Self-Knowledge

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It’s often helpful for cognitive scientists modeling psychological processes to describe the mind’s functional architecture using boxes and ...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Knowing What You Don’t Believe

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(by Blake Myers-Schulz and Eric Schwitzgebel) Virtually every introduction to epistemology (online examples include the Stanford Encyclopedi...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Conference: Experimental Philosophy and the Ethics of Autonomy

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... in Miami, this Friday and Saturday, organized by past guest blogger Brad Cokelet . Schedule of speakers: Friday, March 12 (U of Miami, ...
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Monday, March 08, 2010

Kant on Killing Bastards, on Masturbation, on Wives and Servants, on Organ Donation, Homosexuality, and Tyrants

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I'm going to be dissin' on Kant. If you loathe that sort of thing, maybe you'll enjoy reviewing the results of last year's ...
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Get Beeped and Argue about it with Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel

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at the biennial Toward a Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson. We're running a four-hour pre-conference workshop from 9 am to ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Fooling Oneself: Comments on Moeller's The Moral Fool

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Hans-Georg Moeller's recent book, The Moral Fool , just earned a harsh review from Michael Slater at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Review of Philosophy and Psychology

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There's a new journal on the block. The first issue of The Review of Philosophy and Psychology is now out, and for a limited time all a...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

How Far Away Is the Television Screen of Visual Experience?

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... not that I think there really is one, even in a loose, metaphorical sense. (See here .) But: David Boonin (a visiting speaker from Co...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Second Annual Consciousness Online Conference

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... here .
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Another Simple Argument Against Any General Theory of Consciousness

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... related to my first Simple Argument , but spun out a bit differently. (1.) The history of philosophy shows that no theory of consciousne...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Cognitive Shielding

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Here's a concept I'm playing with and may soon have occasion to deploy in my work on introspection: cognitive shielding . Normally w...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

My entry on "Introspection" is now up in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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... here . From the intro: Introspection, as the term is used in contemporary philosophy of mind, is a means of learning about one's own...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Podcast of "An Empirical Perspective on the Mencius-Xunzi Debate about Human Nature"

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given to the Confucius Institute of Scotland on Jan. 19, here . The podcast is audio-only, so you won't see the overheads. I don't...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Knowledge Is a Capacity, Belief a Tendency

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In epistemology articles and textbooks (e.g., in the Stanford Encyclopedia ), you'll often see claims like the following. S (some perso...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Supersizing Introspection

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I've always enjoyed Andy Clark 's work (hence my desire to emulate his drink preferences ), but I hadn't ('til now) got arou...
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Friday, January 08, 2010

British Tour

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I'll be speaking around Britain the next couple of weeks. Here's my schedule, if anyone wants to come to a talk or meet for coffee:...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010

Might Ethicists Behave More Permissibly but Also No Better?

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I've been thinking a fair bit about the relationship between moral reflection and moral behavior -- especially in light of my findings s...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

John Stuart Mill's Mother

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... you wouldn't know he had one, from his Autobiography (which I just finished reading), other than that he mentions the presence of yo...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Worried about the University of California?

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... this graph says it all. The blue line is below the yellow line because the blue line indicates the national average for all public high...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Professorial Product Placement

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Viewing the latest Lady Gaga video , with its ten product placements, I'm inspired by the thought: Why don't professors do product p...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Map of the Analytic Philosopher's Brain

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Back in the 1990s, Joe Cruz and I joked around about drawing up a "map of the analytic philosopher's brain" -- a kind of phre...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Do Ethicists Steal More Books?

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... is now in print at Philosophical Psychology . Abstract: If explicit cognition about morality promotes moral behavior then one might exp...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Does the Majority of Philosophers Think that the External World Exists?

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... and other poll results here . (These are, of course, the results from David Chalmers' and David Bourget's PhilPapers survey of...
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Thursday, December 03, 2009

Lebensraum / Elbow Room

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The Schoolhouse Rock video "Elbow Room", celebrating the westward expansion of the U.S., got considerable TV airplay back in the ...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Experience of Reading

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What kinds of imagistic or sensory experiences do you normally have when reading prose? Here are three possibilities, not exclusive: (a.) I...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

On Measuring People Twice

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Lots of psychological studies involve measuring people twice. For example, in the imagery literature, there's a minor industry that see...
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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Perplexities of Consciousness, submitted draft

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I have just submitted my new book manuscript, Perplexities of Consciousness, to MIT Press. The whole thing is now viewable from my homepag...
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Monday, November 02, 2009

Winner's Way

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... a novel written by my father, Kirk Gable (born Ralph Schwitzgebel), is now available at Amazon . I hear his voice on every page, glimp...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

A Very Simple Argument Against Any General Theory of Consciousness

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Suspiciously simple, you might think. Here it goes: (1.) No general theory of consciousness can be justified except on the grounds that it ...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Curveball Illusion

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I hadn't seen this curveball illusion before. Very striking and surprising. I haven't had a chance to look into the theory behind...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Epistemic and Phenomenal Consciousness

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The term "conscious" is ambiguous between an epistemic and a phenomenal sense (as I'll explain shortly). So is the term ...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Review of Structure of Scientific Revolutions in the British Journal for Philosophy of Science

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Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most important works of 20th century philosophy, tranformative in the d...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Applying to Graduate School in Philosophy

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Yes, it's about that time. Here's a link to a series of posts in 2007 I wrote about applying to Ph.D. programs. All the same advi...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

The Transparency of Warped Windows

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Gilbert Harman famously wrote: When Eloise sees a tree before her, the colors she experiences are all experienced as features of the tree a...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

The Second Consciousness Online Conference

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... call for papers here .
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Visual Imagery of Sensory Impossibilities

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There was a time when I could visualize the obverse, and then the reverse. Now I see them simultaneously. This is not as though the Zahir w...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

One Reason I'm Worried About My Concept of Consciousness

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Consciousness must, it seems, be a vague phenomenon. The newly formed zygote has no conscious experience; the two-year-old child has conscio...
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