The Splintered Mind

guest post by Amy Kind In “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” the first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series , Captain Kirk pulls out h...

Mainstream experimental philosophy aims to discover ordinary people's opinions about questions of philosophical interest. Typically, th...

guest post by Amy Kind In The Matrix , Morpheus presents Neo with a difficult choice .  Take the red pill, and get access to gen...

guest post by Amy Kind Philosophical thinking about personal identity often focuses on identity across time. What makes the baby ...

boundaries of responsible behavior are less clear than they once were We all know the type. First appearing in the spring of 2020, the ...

guest post by Amy Kind Is there something that it’s like to be plant? I suspect that most people hearing this question would unhesita...

Last weekend, two interviews of me came out. One is a long interview (about 6000 words) at with Nigel Warburton at Five Books on science f...

guest post by Amy Kind Thanks to Eric for inviting me for to take a stint as guest blogger here at The Splintered Mind . I’ve been having...

I've been writing a post on whether and why people should behave morally better after studying ethics. So far, I remain dissatisfied wi...

Last night, I finished Toby Ord's fascinating and important book, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity . This h...

Every New Year's Day, I post a retrospect of the past year's writings. Here are the retrospects of 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 201...

It's good that our children rebel. We wouldn't want each generation to overcontrol the values of the next. For similar reasons, ...