The Splintered Mind

Tomorrow I head off to the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Vancouver. (Thursday I'll be presentin...

This is just the kind of dorky thing I think is cool. Check out this graph of the color associations for different letters for people with ...

As Aristotle notes (NE III.1, 1110a), if the wind picks you up and blows you somewhere you don't want to go, your going there is invol...

Tonight in Palm Desert , I'm presenting my "Theory of Jerks (and Sweethearts)" to a general audience. (Come!) In my past w...

I've been working on a new paper on ancient Chinese philosophy, "Death and Self in the Incomprehensible Zhuangzi" (come hear i...

Recently I read two interesting pieces that I'd like to connect with each other. One is Peter Railton's Dewey Lecture to the Ameri...

Cultural moral relativism is the view that what is morally right and wrong varies between cultures. According to normative cultural moral ...

April 2, I'll be a critic at a Pacific APA author-meets-critics session on Quassim Cassam's book Self-Knowledge for Humans . (Come...

Human moral systems are designed, or evolve and grow, with human beings in mind. So maybe it shouldn't be too surprising if they would...

... here , about my story "Out of the Jar", which features a philosophy professor who discovers he's a sim running in the com...

Not quite up to doing a blog post this week, after the death of my father on the 18th. Instead, I post this picture of a highly energy effi...

My father, Kirkland R. Gable (born Ralph Schwitzgebel) died Sunday. Here are some things I want you to know about him. Of teaching, he s...

Wednesday, I argued that artificial intelligences created by us might deserve more moral consideration from us than do arbitrarily-chosen hu...

Suppose that we someday create artificial beings similar to us in their conscious experience, in their intelligence, in their range of emoti...

10. Listicles destroy the narrative imagination and subtract the sublimity from your gaze. 9. The numerosities of nature never equal the n...

Popular summaries of fun psychology articles regularly float to the top of my Facebook feed. I was particularly struck by this fact on Mond...