The Splintered Mind

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: ...

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

... here .

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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:...

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

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

... 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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

... call for papers here .

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...

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