The Splintered Mind

Kant concludes the first section of his Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals with a plea for the value of philosophical ethics as a bul...

Then click here . The project hosts 17 different experimental philosophy studies designed by 29 philosophers, and it part of the "expe...

I have accepted ANU's offer of a Professor position in Philosophy. I will be leaving UC Riverside in July. I have spent 14 years at UC...

For eight days in 1897, psychologist George Stratton saw the world through a pair of glasses that rotated everything 180 degrees so that up ...

Until now, I have kept the comments section on this blog wide open, but you may force me to change that. I know you are not a machine, beca...

I'm off to Australia with my family for a week (to consider t he ANU job offer ), then to a conference in St. Louis , so it might be a c...

When I gaze into a mirror, does it look like there's someone a few feet away gazing back at me? (Someone who looks a lot like me, thoug...

My father was a graduate student in psychology and education at Harvard in the 1960s. Along with B.F. Skinner and one other graduate stud...

Non-philosophers' judgments about hypothetical philosophical scenarios are often labile and variable. They are subject, for example, to...

... has voted me a job offer. It's not fully official yet, but it's official enough that I will be flying my whole family to Austra...

New essay in draft here , co-authored with Joshua Rust . Abstract: We examine the self-reported moral attitudes and moral behavior of 198...

In his 2010 book, Oliver Sacks writes: The only way to actually perceive depth -- to see it rather than judge it -- is with binocular stere...

Late last year, Jean-Baptiste Michel and co-authors made public the Google Books Ngram Viewer , which graphically displays the rates at whi...

... at Journal of Consciousness Studies , available now through Ingenta .  (Presumably also available soon at the Journal of Consciousness ...

I will be delivering the keynote address at a graduate conference in St. Louis next month. The title of my talk is "The Problem of Kno...

That's what Randy Cohen seems to be saying in his farewell column on ethics for the New York Times Magazine: Writing the column has not...

The famous Wason Selection Task runs like this: You are to imagine four cards, each with a number on one side and a letter on the other sid...

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I was struck by the following passage, reading Decline of the German Mandarins (Fritz Ringer, 1969): Early in August of 1914, the war final...

I posted briefly on this in 2006 , but I continue to be struck by the following fact: When I interview people about their imagery they often...

In 2008 and 2009, my collaborators and I stalked philosophy conferences noting instances of courteous and discourteous behavior. Our aim wa...

I've been trying to post at least once a week recently, but I didn't manage to pull it off this week. I'm in Germany until the ...

by Joshua Rust and Eric Schwitzgebel Available here . Abstract: Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do other profe...

According to transparency views of self-knowledge, we learn about our own mental states not by turning our attention inward to detect the pr...

Recently, I've done a fair bit of work on the moral behavior of ethics professors (mostly with Josh Rust ). We consistently find that ...

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Talk about real-world applied ethics ! (HT Jill Kronstadt)

This, from a recent article in Science , examining word usage frequencies using Google's huge corpus of books: We probed the impact of ...

I will be in Germany from January 18-28. Here's the schedule of talks, plus one graduate student conference. There are also a few less...

... here . Self-knowledge of conscious experience is the topic until 57:12, and then there's about twenty minutes on ethics professors.

... so it says, at least, on my passenger side mirror. (image from  http://amchurchadultdiscipleship.net ) I've been worrying thoug...

Normally, I would just let Jobs for Philosophers carry the U.C. Riverside Philosophy Department ads, but for whatever reason, this ad still...

here . Unfortunately, the immaterial soul continues to elude photographic capture. (HT: Theresa Cook.)

... or so say Josh Rust and I in an article were are busily writing up.  (We reported some of the data in an earlier blog post here .) Bel...

... a Philosophy TV dialogue that came out a couple of weeks ago, but which I forgot to link to at the time. Peter and I both deny that w...

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...

I just gave a talk at Gonzaga University called “ Not by Argument Alone ” in which I tried to show how explanatory reasoning figures into th...

The Stone is the new section of the New York Times devoted to philosophy and this week it contains an interesting piece called “ Stories v...