The Splintered Mind

Fiery Cushman and I have a new paper in draft, exploring the question of whether professional philosophers' judgments about moral dile...

Four more lists of recommended philosophical science fiction / speculative fiction, contributed by professional philosophers. A general de...

Readers interested in connections between philosophy and science fiction might want to check out the new Sci Phi Journal which publishes bo...

Four more lists of recommended philosophical science fiction / speculative fiction, contributed by professional philosophers. A general de...

Enclose the sun inside a layered nest of thin spherical computers. Have the inmost sphere harvest the sun's radiation to drive computat...

Four more lists of recommended philosophical science fiction / speculative fiction, contributed by professional philosophers. For a general...

Former UCR student (and co-author with me on a paper about ethicists' behavior at philosophy conferences ) Justin Coates is blog hostin...

On Tuesday, I posted four lists of philosophical science fiction / speculative fiction recommended by professional philosophers. Here are ...

People seem to calibrate toward moral mediocrity. If we see, or are told, that many people violate a norm, that seems to increase the rate ...

I'm increasingly convinced that science fiction, or more broadly, " speculative fiction " is a powerful philosophical tool. Th...

Transparency is a fun concept, as applied in the recent philosophical literature on self-knowledge (e.g., here ; see also these past posts ...