The Splintered Mind

guest post by Nick Riggle A recent trend has teens and twenty somethings wearing band t-shirts of bands they don’t know. You can know that...

I've been writing a lot recently about what Mara Garza and I, since 2015 , have been calling the Design Policy of the Excluded Middle...

I have some travel and talks coming up. If you're interested and in the area, and if the hosting institution permits, please come by! ...

[ originally published at Daily Nous , Mar. 14, as part of a symposium on large language models , ed. Annette Zimmerman] Engineers will lik...

I'll be presenting an abbreviated version of this at the Pacific APA in April, as a commentary on David Chalmers' book Reality+ . Ac...

Check out my op-ed today , with Henry Shevlin , in the Los Angeles Times.

Princeton University Press generously hired an illustrator to create some images for my forthcoming book, The Weirdness of the World (forthc...

Though I'm not a vegetarian, one of my research interests is the moral psychology of vegetarianism . Last weekend, when I was in Prince...

Nine years ago, I compared the racial and ethnic composition of U.S. academic philosophy , as measured by PhDs awarded, with that of the oth...

Everything you do causes almost everything -- or so I have argued (blog post version here , more detailed and careful version collaborative ...

Yesterday, my favorite SF magazine,  Clarkesworld , published another story of mine: " Larva Pupa Imago ". "Larva Pupa Imago...

Suppose that we someday create artificially intelligent systems (AIs) who are capable of genuine consciousness, real joy and real suffering....

I have a new paper in draft: "Dispositionalism, Yay! Representationalism, Boo!" Check it out here . As always, objections, comment...

[This post draws on ideas developed in collaboration with psychologist Jessie Sun .] If we want to study morality scientifically, we should ...