The Splintered Mind

Saturday's post finding that only 16% of Authors in Elite Philosophy Journals Are Women brought out the misogynist bros on Twitter, but...

In some ways, the gender situation has been improving in philosophy. Women now constitute about 40% of graduating majors in philosophy in ...

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to an ethics of harmonizing with the Dao . Invoking "the Dao" might sound mystical, non-Wester...

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A couple of weeks ago, I published a list of the 253 most-cited works since 1900 in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . (The SEP had...

As is well-known, mainstream Anglophone philosophy has tended to be overwhelmingly non-Hispanic White -- though there's some evidence o...

Last summer, Jordan Jackson and I scraped the bibliographies of all the main-page entries of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , the l...

I've published fifteen short, philosophically-themed science fiction stories in pro and semi-pro magazines, including in some of the mos...

Call a theory of consciousness nonlocal if two entities that are molecule-for-molecule perfectly similar in their physical structure could ...

The Difference Between Kings and Wizards In 16th century Europe, many believed that kings ruled by divine mandate and wizards wielded magi...

here: https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-24/ [Fusion Fragment cover, issue #24] I wanted to write a "robot rights" story w...

Let's grant for the sake of argument that philosophical zombies are possible: beings that are molecule-for-molecule physically and beha...