Wednesday, February 28, 2018

It's Not Just One Thing, to Believe There's a Gas Station on the Corner

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A couple of weekends ago, at the fabulous conference on the nature of belief at UC Santa Barbara, Elisabeth Camp said something that kin...
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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Why Moral and Philosophical Disagreements Are Especially Fertile Grounds for Rationalization (with Jon Ellis)

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(with Jonathan E. Ellis ; originally appeared at the Imperfect Cognitions blog ) Last week we argued that your intelligence, vigilance,...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Rationalization: Why Your Intelligence, Vigilance and Expertise Probably Don't Protect You (with Jon Ellis)

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(with Jonathan E. Ellis ; originally appeared at the Imperfect Cognitions blog ) We’ve all been there. You’re arguing with someone – abo...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Philosophy Relies on Those Double Majors

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Happy Valentine's Day! Because I love you, here are some statistics. Following a suggestion by Eric Winsberg , I decided to look at t...
Thursday, February 08, 2018

Is Consciousness Sparse or Abundant? Five Dimensions of Analysis

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Consciousness -- that is, "phenomenal" consciousness, the stream of experience, subjective experience, "what-it's-like...
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Friday, February 02, 2018

Designing AI with Rights, Consciousness, Self-Respect, and Freedom (with Mara Garza)

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New paper in draft! Abstract: We propose four policies of ethical design of human-grade Artificial Intelligence. Two of our policies...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The Philosophical Overton Window?

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It seems like I've been hearing a lot recently about the " Overton Window " in politics. The idea is that there's a ...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018

On Not Blogging While Jetlagged

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Okay, I was all set to put up a blog post today about whether we can aesthetically appreciate evil artworks like Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Flying Free of the Deathbed, with Technological Help

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Today marks the third year since the death of my father, Kirkland Gable. (Some memories of him here .) I now better understand than I once...
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Friday, January 12, 2018

Grounds for a Sliver of Skepticism

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Yesterday, Philosophy Bites released a brief podcast interview of me on skepticism. Listening to the interview now, I feel that I didn...
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Friday, January 05, 2018

Imagining Yourself in Another's Shoes Vs. Extending Your Love

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A favorite passage of mine from Mengzi (Mencius) is this one: That which people are capable of without learning is their genuine capabi...
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Monday, January 01, 2018

Writings of 2017

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It's a tradition for me now, posting a retrospect of the past year's writings on New Year's Day. (Here are the retrospects of ...
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Saturday, December 30, 2017

Some Universities Have About 20% Women Philosophy Majors and others About 40%, in Patterns Unlikely to Be Chance

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According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, about 32% of Philosophy Bachelor's degree recipients in the U.S. ...
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Philosophy Undergraduate Majors Aren't Very Black, but Neither Are They As White As You Might Have Thought

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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 ...
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Thursday, December 14, 2017

Sharp Declines in Philosophy, History, and Language Majors Since 2010

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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...
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