The Splintered Mind

Why do you endorse Platonism about numbers, or idealism, or skepticism, or consequentialism, or any other a priori justified (you think) phi...

... keynote speaker John Doris . Submissions are invited for the 3rd annual Mind and Ethics [Graduate Student] Workshop at the University of...

... is Edmond Wright . The aim of the contest was to find a published discussion of the possibility of sound-color qualia inversion , that i...

On Friday, I presented data suggesting -- contrary to common opinion -- that deontologists behave no worse than virtue ethicists and conseq...

As I noted in a previous post , Kantian ethicists seem to have a reputation among philosophers for behaving worse than other sorts of ethici...

In 2009, Josh Rust and I ran a survey asking hundreds of ethicists, non-ethicist philosophers, and comparison professors, first, a variety o...

Jonathan Phillips writes: The Experiment Month initiative is a program designed to help philosophers conduct experimental studies. If you ar...

If you're the kind of person who reads philosophy blogs, you've probably heard of inverted qualia thought experiments. The most fa...

I continue to be struck by my finding, last week , that great philosophers produce their most influential work at a very broad distribution ...

Yesterday, Paul Hoffman died of a heart attack. He was a great scholar and colleague. I will miss him terribly. At a talk on Monday, John ...

A philosophical discussion arc , as I defined the term a couple weeks ago , is a curve showing changes over time the use of a name or a word...

In an earlier post, based on an unsystematic sample, I estimated age 38 . Today, with a broader and more systematically collected sample, I...

I am going to give you a seriously flawed list. There's your warning, front and center! I think Brian Leiter's list of top general...

Yesterday, I posted a list of the forty most-cited contemporary authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . A number of people ha...

As part of my background work on discussion arcs , I compiled all the bibliographic entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , exc...

As background for my work on discussion arcs , I've analyzed the distribution of research interests among research-oriented philosophers...

A philosophical discussion arc (as discussed in Tuesday's post) is the trend, over time, in the use of a term or name as a keyword in p...

A philosophical discussion arc, as I'll use the term, is a curve displaying how often a topic or author is used as a "keyword...

David Chalmers defends what he calls a principle of organizational invariance according to which if a system has conscious experiences the...

David Chalmers gave a talk today (at the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson) arguing that it is fairly likely that som...

As you may know, Russ Hurlburt and I recently published a book centering on a woman's reports about her experience as she went about h...

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 ...