The Splintered Mind

I've received good news on a grant, with Morgan Thompson and Eric Winsberg, for some data-crunching about Philosophy majors in the U.S....

by Eric Schwitzgebel and Christopher McVey ... or at least this is so for one narrative we've tried and one type of philosophical argu...

Applicants for faculty positions in the University of California must now include "Diversity Statements" alongside more traditio...

In learning and in forgetting, the amount of connectivity between your neurons changes. Throughout your life, neurons die and grow. Thr...

[Revised on Oct 31, from "Loving Attention" to "Kindness", plus several other changes concerning consent and non-sexu...

Abstract: The question "are garden snails phenomenally conscious?" or equivalently "is there something it’s like to be a ga...

I haven't checked my email since Friday afternoon, and there are now 165 unread messages in my inbox. (Only a few are likely to be sp...

Teaching Hitler About once a year, I teach a giant lower division class called "Evil", focused on the moral psychology of evil...

In an earlier post , I argued that the question “is there something it’s like to be a garden snail?” or equivalently “are garden snails co...

Nicole Hassoun, Sherri Conklin, and I have been working on a list of "best practices" or (less ambitiously) "practices to c...

Philosophical skepticism is usually regarded as primarily a thesis about knowledge -- the thesis that we don't know some of the thin...

If you grew up in a temperate climate, you probably spent some time bothering brown garden snails ( Cornu aspersum , formerly known as He...

[ cross-posted at Kittywumpus ] When The Good Place episode “The Trolley Problem” won one of science fiction’s most prestigious award...