Friday, July 28, 2023

The Envy Argument Against the View That Teletransportation Is Death

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Oh how mistaken other philosophers are! I was especially struck by this poll result in the just-dropped Bourget and Chalmers study of prof...
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Thursday, July 20, 2023

University of California Has Endorsed the "Principles for Online Majors and Programs" That I Co-Authored

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I have now been serving for a year on the University of California Systemwide Committee on Educational Policy.  One of the committee's f...
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Monday, July 10, 2023

The Summer Illusion

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Hi from the vicinity of Sogndal, Norway! My brain is foggy and exhausted from traveling (today we kayaked for three hours and hiked a glacie...
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Friday, June 30, 2023

Mostly Overlapping Minds: A Challenge for the View that Minds Are Necessarily Discrete

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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...
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Friday, June 23, 2023

Dishonesty among Honesty Researchers

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Until recently, one of the most influential articles on the empirical psychology of honesty was Shu, Mazar, Gino, Ariely, and Bazerman 2012 ...
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Saturday, June 17, 2023

Flipping Pascal's Wager on Its Head

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In his famous Wager , Pascal contemplates whether one should choose to believe in God. (Maybe we can't directly choose to believe in G...
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Thursday, June 08, 2023

New Paper in Draft: Introspection in Group Minds, Disunities of Consciousness, and Indiscrete Persons

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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...
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Wednesday, June 07, 2023

The Fundamental Argument for Dispositionalism about Belief

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