The Splintered Mind

... or at least they tend that direction on personality tests . There are, I think, some gaps in the Bartels and Pizarro argument -- espec...

Bizarre views are a hazard endemic to metaphysics. The metaphysician starts, seemingly, with some highly plausible initial commitments or c...

(collaborative with Alan Moore ) I’m engaged in a certain exercise. You might doubt the value of this exercise, but it’s a traditional ph...

is now online here at Philosophical Psychology . If you want to see it and you're stuck behind a pay wall, feel free either to email m...

Mahalo , which will be featuring me in their Meet Authors series. In that series, authors spend about an hour on video addressing selected...

Eighteenth century Scottish "common sense" philosopher Thomas Reid never tires of flogging his opponents with their violations of...

A few days ago I posted a discussion of Nick Bostrom 's Simulation Argument , which aims to show that there is a substantial chance -- ...

Nick Bostrom argues, in a 2003 article , that there's a substantial probability that we're living in a computer simulation. One wa...

Amazon is quoting me $22.43 here . Barnes & Noble is quoting $23 here , but saying it's not yet available.

I was recently reminded of a short paper I abandoned work on in 2001, but for which I still have a certain amount of affection. Here it is ...

... by which he means something like: Philosophical reflection has no bearing on the real, practical decisions of life. See here and here ...

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...