The Splintered Mind

Here's where I'm sitting this minute: next to a creek on a steep flowery hill, overlooking the town of Neskaupstathur, Iceland, and ...

My alternative-history story about love and low-tech body switching through hypnosis has just been released in audio at PodCastle. Terrific ...

I'm working through Daniel Batson's latest book, What's Wrong with Morality ? Batson distinguishes between four different t...

Greetings from Cambridge! Traveling around Europe and the UK, I am struck by the extent to which different countries have relatively pyrami...

Daniel Estrada's Made of Robots has launched a Hangout on Air series in philosophy of technology. The first episode is terrific! ...

At The Deviant Philosopher Wayne Riggs, Amy Olberding, Kelly Epley, and Seth Robertson are collecting suggestions for teaching units, exerc...

I'm heading off to Europe tomorrow for a series of talks and workshops. Nijmegen, Vienna, Graz, Lille, Leuven, Antwerp, Oxford, Cambrid...

You can't say anything only once -- not when you're writing, not if you want the reader to remember . People won't read the ...

Here are some things that "suck": bad sports teams; bad popular music groups; getting a flat tire, which you try to change in ...

Yesterday afternoon, I worked up the nerve to say the following to a room full of (mostly) white retirees in my politically middle-of-the-ro...

In 2014, I published a paper titled " The Crazyist Metaphysics of Mind ". Since the beginning, I have been somewhat ambivalent ab...

I've signed a contract with MIT Press for my next book. Working title: How to Be a Crazy Philosopher . The book will collect, revise, ...

Here are four things I care intensely about: being a good father, being a good philosopher, being a good teacher, and being a morally good...

Philosophers have three broad methods for settling disputes: appeal to "common sense" or culturally common presuppositions, appeal...

Here's The 20% Statistician, Daniel Lakens, on why blogs have better science than Science . Lakens observes that blogs (usually) hav...

My opinion piece in today's LA Times. You probably already know the Passover story: How Moses asked Pharoah to let his enslaved peo...

If you're an academic aiming to reach a broad international audience, it is increasingly the case that you must publish in English. P...

Like many (most?) 21st-century North Americans, I hate to be told I’ve done something ableist (or racist, or sexist). Why does it sting so ...

University administrators sometimes think it's a good idea to eliminate their philosophy departments . Some of these efforts have...

I've been reading books that advise us to try to eliminate whole classes of moral emotions. In Against Empathy , Paul Bloom describe...