The Splintered Mind

All philosophical views are to some degree skeletal . By this, I mean that the details of their application remain to some extent open. This...

I'm loving reading the 1643 correspondence between Elisabeth of Bohemia and Descartes! I'm embarrassed to confess that I hadn'...

Back in 2017, I noticed that the percentage of women philosophy majors in the U.S. had been 30%-34% for "approximately forever". ...

My last two posts have concerned the extent to which ethicists should "walk the walk" -- that is, live according to, or at least...

Last week, I discussed some reasons we might not expect or want professional ethicists to "walk the walk" in the sense of living b...

The Question: What's Wrong with Scheler? There's a story about Max Scheler , the famous early 20th century Catholic German ethic...

I favor a " dispositional " approach to belief , according to which to believe something is nothing more or less than to have a c...

[a 2900-word opinion piece that  appeared last week in Patterns ] AI systems should not be morally confusing .  The ethically correct wa...

Since 2014, I've compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent awards nominations and "be...