The Splintered Mind

Recently, several psychologists, perhaps most notably Jonathan Haidt and his collaborators, have emphasized the connection between disgust ...

Suppose that a baby is born at the Institute for Evil Neuroscience. Well, maybe not a baby exactly -- a human baby brain, suspended in nutr...

Let's call a philosophical position crazy if it's strongly contrary to common sense and the overall state of scientific and other e...

I sing aloud, or silently to myself: "I'm going to Graceland, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee". I do not judge this thing to...

available here . For more than ten years I have been writing about (various aspects of) belief and about (various aspects of) self-knowledg...

(collaborative with Alan Moore ) Radical solipsism is the view that nothing exists beyond my own stream of conscious experience. I’ve be...

On my bedstand right now: a textbook on cosmology and Boethius's Consolations of Philosophy (which I'd never properly read through ...

launched today , and featuring "peer-to-peer discussions with philosophers about their new ideas as expressed in their newly published ...

... rather than going to Australian National University in July, as previously announced .

In a new article at Mind & Language (free penultimate draft here ), Jakob Hohwy argues that I'm wrong in my claim (e.g., here an...

I'm inclined to think that we don't know very well what the fundamental structure of the world is. (I am, I sometimes think, like a...

I've seen now two reviews of my 2011 book Perplexities of Consciousness . Uriah Kriegel offers one here at NDPR . And Peter Hankins o...

I didn't notice at the time, but last March the Splintered Mind crossed 500,000 visitors since its launch in April 2006. I suppose ther...

I believe that you, dear human reader, have a stream of conscious experience. There is something it is like to be you; you have (as we call...

Embodiment is hot these days in philosophy of psychology. Andy Clark , Alva Noe , Rob Wilson , and others have argued that cognition and pe...

What Google autofills when I type in "Schwitzgebel". Does this mean that people are more interested in my various ill-tempered d...

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...