The Splintered Mind

Philosophers normally treat personhood as all-or-nothing. An entity either is a person or is not a person. There are no half-persons, and ...

by Eric Schwitzgebel, Morgan Thompson, and Eric Winsberg Earlier this year, with the help of a grant from the APA, we obtained data from t...

I'm putting together a new anthology for MIT Press, with the working title Philosophy and Sci-Fi , with co-editors Rich Horton and Helen...

I've been binge-watching Doctor Who , and two days ago I finished Susanna Clarke's new novel Piranesi . I love them both! Doctor W...

Back in 2017, I noticed that the number of students completing the Philosophy major in the U.S. had plummeted from a high of 9431 in 2013 (...

by Carolyn Dicey Jennings and Eric Schwitzgebel [cross-posted at The Blog of the APA and Daily Nous ] We were recently provided with a ...

According to the Copernican Principle in cosmology, we should assume that we do not occupy a special or privileged place in the cosmos, s...

The number of true sentences is infinite. This is why writing philosophy is hard. As if to prove my point to myself, I'm having some ...

The Nazis called Jews rats and lice.  White plantation owners called their Black slaves soulless animals.  Pundits in Myanmar call Rohingya ...

Suppose I'm running a randomized study: Treatment group A gets the medicine; control group B gets a placebo; later, I test both groups f...

If you want to annoy your psychology and social science friends, I have just the trick!  Gather four of them together and ask them to explai...