The Splintered Mind

I become paranoid and quit philosophy. But I need to make money somehow, so I become a jeweler. The problem with being a paranoid jeweler ...

Sometimes when I present my work on the mediocre moral behavior of ethics professors , someone tells me that it's been shown that profes...

I'll be presenting a new essay at the Philosophy of Science Association meeting in San Diego on Friday in the morning sessions. I'...

The nature and management of assholes -- or as I generally prefer to say, jerks -- deserves far more attention than it has received thus fa...

In my undergraduate classes, I normally distribute tips for writing philosophy papers along with my essay assignments. Perhaps others will f...

Nietzsche writes: What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This lif...

In the year 3000, let's suppose, humanity completes its greatest construction project ever: Ringworld , a habitable surface as wide as a...

If you're like me, you believe that the solar system contains eight planets. (Stubborn Plutophiles may adjust accordingly.) You probab...

I've been traveling in Spain and France, and it has been hard to find the time to pull together a full-length post. But this thought st...

Tomorrow I'm headed to Spain and France for a couple of weeks, and I'm not sure whether I'll have time to post. My schedule: ...

What is "experimental philosophy"? There is, I think, some tension in how philosophers use the term -- tension between a narrow a...

I have long advocated a dispositional approach to belief (e.g., here ). But I have been cagey about trying to extend that account to other ...

My oral presentation to the Neuphi group at Tufts, here .

Most recent Anglophone philosophers appear to favor what I will call architectural accounts of the attitudes. On such accounts, what is es...

If you're in the Boston area, you're welcome to come to my talk at Harvard tomorrow (Thursday) and/or at Tufts on Friday. Thursday...

I woke this morning to find my Facebook feed full of reminders to "never forget" the September 11 terrorist attacks. I am reminde...

From a certain perspective, current liberal Western civilization seems to be a moral pinnacle. We have rejected slavery. We have substantial...

Philosophers typically think of belief as one thing and desire as quite another. Beliefs, for example, represent the world as it is; desires...

A major sociological divide in recent Anglophone philosophy is the divide between philosophers who see themselves as working in the traditio...

Charity sounds like a good thing. And it sounds like a good thing when reading the history of philosophy. If a philosopher seems to be incoh...

(collaborative with Alan Moore ) It occurs to me to doubt whether the external world exists -- that is, whether anything exists other than...