The Splintered Mind

Not everyone knows it yet, but starting next fall, Barry Lam , host of the awesome philosophy podcast Hi-Phi Nation , will be joining the Ph...

Time to be a doomsayer!  If technology continues on its current trajectory, we will soon be facing a moral catastrophe.  We will create AI s...

You hear terrible things.  You hear, for instance, that over 50% of philosophy articles are entirely uncited .  You hear that the average ph...

guest post by Neil Van Leeuwen Many people feel some rational pressure to get their religious beliefs to cohere with their more mundane fact...

This year, I'm serving on the systemwide University of California Committee on Educational Policy, and specifically I'm on a subcomm...

Check out the guest post by Deborah Nelson at The Philosophers' Cocoon. Last month, Debbie completed her dissertation under my directio...

The ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (4th c. BCE) often contradicted himself, or at least made statements whose superficial readings st...

Below is a short piece I just published  at The Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture , on the ancient debate between Mengzi and Xunzi...

Last spring at a workshop in Princeton, Neil Van Leeuwen presented some of his work on the differences between "beliefs" and ...

Most vegetarians are familiar with " do-gooder derogation ".  People often react to ethical vegetarianism with hostility.  But why...