The Splintered Mind

A few days ago, Skye Cleary interviewed me for the Blog of the APA . I love her direct and sometimes whimsical questions. -------------...

In a series of fascinating recent articles , philosopher Susan Schneider argues that (1.) Most of the intelligent beings in the univer...

A couple of weeks ago I posted some thoughts that I intended to give after a cosmology talk here at UCR. As it happens, I gave an entirely...

In the current issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies , Keith Frankish argues that consciousness is an illusion -- or at least th...

I've been invited to be one of four humanities panelists after a public lecture on the early history of the universe. ( Come by if y...

Infinitude is a strange and wonderful thing. It transforms the ridiculously improbable into the inevitable. Now hang on to your hat and g...

What better way to spend the Sunday after Thanksgiving than playing card games with your family and then arguing about the odds? As pictur...

Here are two very different approaches to moral education: The outward-in approach. Inform the child what the rules are. Do not expect ...

Suppose that you can say, with a feeling of sincerity, "All races and colors of people deserve equal respect". Suppose also that ...

What you believe is not what you say you believe. It is how you act. What you desire is not what you say you desire. It is what you choo...

Interesting tool here , where you can search for terms in professors' teaching reviews, by discipline and gender. The gender associati...

In some of my published work, I have argued that: (1.) Attitudes, such as belief and desire, are best understood as clusters of disposit...

The Monday before last, Ned Block and Eric Mandelbaum brought me into their philosophy grad seminar at New York University to talk about ...

One of my regular TAs, Chris McVey , uses a lot of storytelling in his teaching. About once a week, he'll spend ten minutes sharing a...

(inspired by a conversation with Cory Doctorow about how a kid's high-tech rented eyes might be turned toward favored products in the c...

[ cross-posted at the Blog of the APA ] When I was graduate student in Berkeley in the 1990s, philosophy PhD students were required to ...

Available here . As always, comments and criticisms welcome, either by email to my address or in the comments section on this post. Abst...

Come one, come all! (Well, for certain smallish values of "all".) Cory Doctorow "1998 Called, and It Wants Its Stupid In...

Now that my Jerk Quiz has been picked up by The Sun and The Daily Mail , I've finally hit the big time! I'm definitely listing th...