The Splintered Mind

Earlier this year, Anna Strasser, Matthew Crosby, and I fined-tuned the large language model GPT-3 on the philosophical writings of Daniel ...

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...