The Splintered Mind

Part One of a two-part series by  Grace Helton  (guest blogger) [Paul Klee, Angel Applicant, 1939; source ] Some people have come to interac...

Human beings matter morally. We have moral standing. Our interests deserve consideration -- for our own sakes, and not just as means to ends...

Way back in April 2006, I launched The Splintered Mind. Happy 20th birthday, blog of mine! In 2006, academic blogs were cool. After t...

I offer for your consideration the following ethical motto: Do your thing. I admit: This motto doesn't sound very ethical. What if...

I've just started reading Kim Stanley Robinson 's acclaimed climate-science utopia, The Ministry for the Future . How might society...

Last week I submitted my latest book manuscript to Cambridge University Press (for their "Element" series of books about 100 pages...

It's confusing. You applied to a PhD program in philosophy in the U.S. You haven't been admitted. You haven't been rejected. ...

It's a philosophical truism that human conscious experience is unified: If you're at a bar, hearing music, tasting beer, and feeling...

Most AI systems can be precisely copied. Suppose this is also true of future conscious AI persons, if any exist. Backup and fissioning sho...

A philosophical discussion arc is a curve displaying how frequently a term appears in philosophical journal abstracts, titles, and keywords...