The Splintered Mind

According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, about 32% of Philosophy Bachelor's degree recipients in the U.S. ...

Okay, I have some more data from the NCES database on Bachelor's degrees awarded in the U.S. A couple of weeks ago I noted that women ...

As I was gathering data for last week's post on the remarkably flat gender ratios in philosophy over time , I was struck by a pattern in...

[Also appearing in today's LA Times . Happy first night of Hannukah!] Superficially, dreidel appears to be a simple game of luck, a...

* for values of "forever" ≤ 30 years. The National Center for Education Statistics has data on the gender of virtually all Bache...

I've been working on this essay off and on for years, "Aiming for Moral Mediocrity". I think I've finally pounded it into...

Happy (almost) Thanksgiving (in the U.S.)! I want to share a recent family tradition which might help you through some of those awkward con...

In a famous series of experiments Justin Kruger and David Dunning found that people who scored in the lowest quartile of skill in grammar, ...

By perfectly fine I mean: not at all morally blameworthy. By aiming I mean: being ready to calibrate ourselves up or down to hit the...

Belief attribution, both in philosophy and in ordinary language, normally serves two different types of role. One role is predicting, tr...

What a pleasure and an honor to have been invited back to Julia Galef's awesome podcast, Rationally Speaking ! If you don't know R...

[Edit Oct. 28: After discussion with friends and commenters in social media, I now think that the thesis should be moderated in two ways. F...

Hugh D. Reynolds has written up a fun, vivid summary of my talk at Oxford Brookes last spring, on fiction writing for philosophers! ------...

Uh-oh, it happened again. That paper I refereed for Journal X a few months ago -- it's back in my inbox. Journal X rejected it, and ...

Abstract: I defend a how-possibly argument for Kantian (or Kant*-ian) transcendental idealism, drawing on concepts from David Chalmers, Ni...

According to Nomy Arpaly and Zach Barnett, some philosophers prefer Truth and others prefer Dare . I love the distinction. It helps us see...

To judge from the examples we use in our essays, we philosophers are a pretty classy bunch. Evidently, philosophers tend to frequent the th...