The Splintered Mind

Last fall I gave a couple of talks in Ohio. While there, I met an Oberlin undergraduate named Sophie Nelson, with whom I have remained in t...

Until recently, one of the most influential articles on the empirical psychology of honesty was Shu, Mazar, Gino, Ariely, and Bazerman 2012 ...

In his famous Wager , Pascal contemplates whether one should choose to believe in God. (Maybe we can't directly choose to believe in G...

I have a new paper in draft, for a special issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies .  Although the paper makes reference to a target artic...

I'm back from travel to Paris and Antwerp, where I spoke with people influenced by, and critical of, my " dispositionalist " a...

If someday space aliens visit Earth, I will almost certainly think that they are conscious, if they behave anything like us.  If they have s...

In The Truman Show , main character Truman Burbank has been raised from birth, unbeknownst to him, as the star of a widely broadcast reality...

If I use autocomplete to help me write my email, the email is -- we ordinarily think -- still written by me.  If I ask ChatGPT to generate a...

guest post by  Nick Riggle One of the things I love about philosophy is its beauty. Philosophical works contain beautiful ideas, arguments...

I have a new draft paper out! " Repetition and Value in an Infinite Cosmos " -- forthcoming in Stephen Hetherington, Extreme Phil...

guest post by  Nick Riggle Philosophy is a famously rigid and complex discipline full of daunting and difficult prose. As a sign of this...