The Splintered Mind

I favor a "superficialist" approach to belief (see here and here ). "Belief" is best conceptualized not in terms of dee...

In working on a post for tomorrow on whether Large Language Models like GPT-4 and Bard-2 have beliefs, I asked GPT-4 what I thought would be...

Anna Strasser and I have a new paper in draft , arising from a conference she organized in Riverside last spring on Humans and Smart Machin...

There's a discussion-queue tradition in philosophy that some people love, but which I've come to oppose. It's too ripe for misus...

Could we ever build a "moralometer" -- that is, an instrument that would accurately measure people's overall morality?  If so,...

In the 1970s, women received about 17% of PhDs in philosophy in the U.S.  The percentage rose to about 27% in the 1990s, where it stayed bas...

A thousand utilitarian consequentialists stand before a thousand identical buttons.  If any one of them presses their button, ten people wil...

In a 2015 article , Mara Garza and I offer the following argument for the rights of some possible AI systems: Premise 1: If Entity A deserve...

AI intelligence is strange -- strange in something like the etymological sense of external, foreign, unfamiliar, alien.  My PhD student Ke...

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...