The Curious Engineer

The Splintered Mind

2006–2007

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2007 168

December 2007

  1. How Do You Know You're Not Dreaming?
  2. Ho Ho Ho!
  3. Introspective Infallibility, Causation, and Containment
  4. Links to Advice on Philosophy Grad School Applications
  5. Artists Don't Know Better Than the Rest of Us How Things Look
  6. What Do You Think About When Watching The Nutcracker?
  7. Consciousness and Rationality Without Language?
  8. Perceptual Experience and Attention
  9. Political Scientists' Voting: Predictions and Methods
  10. Should Philosophy Be Read Slowly?
  11. Echoes of Inner Speech
  12. Synchronized Movement and the Self-Other Boundary

November 2007

  1. Do Political Scientists Vote More Often?
  2. Mill on Moral Reflection and Moral Behavior
  3. Dennis Becomes a Dentist and Moves to Denver
  4. The Latest Philosophers' Carnival...
  5. Materialism Is Not (or Shouldn't Be) a Metaphysical Thesis
  6. The Caterpillar Effect in Ethical Reflection
  7. The Metaphysics of Ghosts
  8. Kant on Rationalization
  9. What Is "Experimental Philosophy"?
  10. My First Book Is Out!
  11. The Latest Philosophers' Carnival Is...
  12. The Moral Character of Kantians
  13. New Draft Essay: The Moral Behavior of Ethicists: Peer Opinion (with Joshua Rust)

October 2007

  1. A Philosopher's Epitaph
  2. Do You Mostly See Double? (Yet Again)
  3. Do You Mostly See Double? (revisited)
  4. MindPapers
  5. The Game of Jerk and Sucker (Freeway Version)
  6. Philosophers' Carnival #55...
  7. The Full Text of Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Philosophy Is Available...
  8. Applying to Philosophy Ph.D. Programs, Part VII: After You Hear Back
  9. Dennett on the "Cartesian Theater"
  10. Applying to Philosophy Ph.D. Programs, Part VI: GRE Scores and Other Things
  11. Brief Hiatus
  12. Why I'm Not a Moral Relativist
  13. Latest Philosophy Carnival...
  14. Applying to Philosophy Ph.D. Programs, Part V: Statement of Purpose
  15. Are Doctors Less Likely to Smoke? Do Economists Invest Better? Are Political Scientists More Likely to Vote?
  16. Applying to Philosophy Ph.D. Programs, Part IV: Writing Samples
  17. In Defense of Phacts

September 2007

  1. Applying to Philosophy Ph.D. Programs, Part III: Letters of Recommendation
  2. Forbidding "Fuck" and "Shit" to Save Them
  3. Applying to Philosophy Ph.D. Progams, Part II: Grades and Classes
  4. Why Are We Conscious?
  5. Applying to Philosophy Ph.D. Programs, Part I: Should You Apply, and Where?
  6. Philosophers Carnival #53 Is...
  7. Situationism, Virtues, and Control
  8. Three Reasons to Mistrust Reports about Ongoing Conscious Experience
  9. Eyes Closed Visual Experience -- Subjects 3 and 4
  10. The Mysterious Disappearance of the Wandelnde Nebelstreifen
  11. What Does a Non-Effect Look Like, Meta-Analytically?

August 2007

  1. Describing Inner Experience? -- book cover
  2. Eyes Closed in the Sun
  3. Eyes Closed Visual Experience -- Subject 2
  4. From Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics
  5. Self-Reported Vividness of Imagery and the Cortex
  6. Can You Directly Will Sensory Experiences?
  7. The Chinese Government Blocks This Blog
  8. How Not to Pack a Suitcase
  9. Eyes Closed Visual Experience -- Subject 1
  10. Zombies and anti-zombies (by guest blogger Keith Frankish)
  11. On the Winnowing of Greats
  12. 'What am I?' (by guest blogger Keith Frankish)
  13. New Essay: Do Ethicists Steal More Books?
  14. Introspection and consciousness (by guest blogger Keith Frankish)
  15. Do Business Ethics Courses Do Any Good?
  16. Shoast

July 2007

  1. Another puzzle about belief (by guest blogger Keith Frankish)
  2. Religion and Crime
  3. Qualia: The real thing (by guest blogger Keith Frankish)
  4. Subjective Life Span
  5. If you want my opinion … (by guest blogger Keith Frankish)
  6. Making Sense of Dennett's Views on Introspection
  7. The Generosity of Philosophy Students
  8. Feeling bias in the measurement of happiness (by guest blogger Dan Haybron)
  9. Checkerboards and Honeycombs in the Sun
  10. The Social Biophilia Hypothesis (by guest blogger Dan Haybron)
  11. Big Things and Small Things in Morality
  12. Indiscernible misery? (by guest blogger Dan Haybron)
  13. Seeing Through Your Eyelids -- Spreading Motion
  14. Germs, dirt, and relationships: why people may not want what they need (by guest blogger Dan Haybron)

June 2007

  1. "Humbling" Experiences?
  2. Why life satisfaction is (and isn’t) worth measuring (by guest blogger Dan Haybron)
  3. Are Babies More Conscious than Adults?
  4. How Happy Is Happy? (by guest blogger Dan Haybron)
  5. Condoms and Alcohol Containers, the MLA and the APA
  6. The Moral Behavior of Ethicists
  7. Taking ‘Happiness’ out of the Science of Happiness, Part One
  8. Gilbert Ryle's Secret Grotto
  9. Introspection and Expression
  10. Should Ethicists Behave Better? Should Epistemologists Think More Rationally?
  11. Why Are People So Confident About Their Stream of Experience?
  12. Remembering from the Third-Person Perspective?
  13. Can we Have Moral Standards without Moral Beliefs? (by guest blogger Justin Tiwald)
  14. The Clarity, or Not, of Visual Experience

May 2007

  1. Appearances, Beliefs, and the Moral Emotions (by guest blogger Justin Tiwald)
  2. Happy Memorial Day...
  3. On Old Friends Looking Young
  4. Finding the Blame in Survivor Guilt (by guest blogger Justin Tiwald)
  5. Should Philosophers Belong to the APA?
  6. Sympathy and Self-Love (by guest blogger Justin Tiwald)
  7. The Two Envelope Paradox
  8. The Second On-Line Philosophy Conference...
  9. How Selfless Can We Be (and Still Care about Others)? (by guest blogger Justin Tiwald)
  10. The Psychology of Philosophy
  11. What Does It Mean to Have a Desire? (by guest blogger Justin Tiwald)
  12. Attention, Objects, and Aims
  13. With Your Eyes Closed, Can You See Your Hand in Front of Your Face?
  14. Virginia Tech: A Thought about the Media Coverage

April 2007

  1. The Trembling Stoic
  2. A Flurry of Essays
  3. Happy First Birthday, The Splintered Mind
  4. The New Philosophers' Carnival is...
  5. Peer Opinion of the Behavior of Ethicists: Results by Academic Rank
  6. The Moral Behavior of Ethicists: Opinions Revealed in Conversation and on Questionnaires
  7. Judgment, Attunement, and Introspection
  8. Are 38-Year-Olds the Best Philosophers?
  9. Obedience and Evil in McDonald's
  10. The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors: Peer Opinion
  11. At the APA
  12. Happy Lynchers (repost)
  13. Against "Appearances"

March 2007

  1. The Dark Laozi
  2. Doing Good Philosophy on a Blog?
  3. Distinguishing Theories vs. Background Conditions (by guest blogger Joshua Rust)
  4. "Reliability" in Epistemology
  5. Is Perception Always Experiential? (by guest blogger Joshua Rust)
  6. On Not Seeking Pleasure Much
  7. Difficulties with Davidson's account of action (II): What is the force of the "because" that links action and desire? (by guest blogger Joshua Rust)
  8. Knowing Your Own Thoughts
  9. Philosophers' Carnival #44...
  10. Difficulties with Davidson's account of action (I): On explaining something in terms of the very causes by which it is defined
  11. The Pinch Test for Dreaming
  12. On the connection between moral reasoning and emotion (by guest blogger Joshua Rust)
  13. The Motivation of Ethicists: A Seven-Year-Old's Thought
  14. Flow and the Not-So-Skillful Zhuangzi?

February 2007

  1. A Priori Metaphysical Possibility (by guest blogger Jonathan Ichikawa)
  2. Is Philosophy Ever Profound?
  3. Dreaming, Belief, and Emotion (by guest blogger Jonathan Ichikawa)
  4. Leaving for Yue Today and Arriving Yesterday
  5. The New Philosophers Carnival Is...
  6. Do We Believe What We Dream? (by guest blogger Jonathan Ichikawa)
  7. Do Atheists Commit Less Vicious Sexual Crimes?
  8. Dreaming in Color (by guest blogger Jonathan Ichikawa)
  9. What is "Rationalization"?
  10. Why Do People Worry about Whether Intuitions Are Evidence? (by guest blogger Jonathan Ichikawa)
  11. "Experimental Philosophy" -- Wide and Narrow
  12. What Do Analytic Philosophers Analyze? (by guest blogger Jonathan Ichikawa)
  13. The Parable of the Farmer of Song (Mengzi 2A2)

January 2007

  1. Humeschwitzstein
  2. Philosophers Carnival #42 is...
  3. Is It Fair to Expect Ethicists to Behave Better?
  4. Echolocation and Knowledge
  5. Human Echolocation
  6. Philosophy Grad School Applications -- Reflections from the Other Side
  7. New Blog for Florida Philosophy Students...
  8. Evil and Failure to Reflect
  9. Liberating On Liberty (from the Library)
  10. Philosophy Graduate Students Say the Most Peculiar Things
  11. Do Ethicists Behave Better Than the Rest of Us? Peer Opinion
  12. Doubts about (One Kind of) "Purkinje Afterimage"
  13. Philosophers Carnival #41 is...
  14. Still More Data on the Theft of Ethics Books
  15. Online Journal Psyche Seeks New Editors
  16. Directional Olfaction?
  17. Harvard's Collection in Klingon

2006 114

December 2006

  1. Brief Hiatus
  2. A Sampled Experience: Beep 1.1
  3. A Curious Effect of Vibrating Phones
  4. When Do You Know You're Speaking to Yourself?
  5. Do Ethicists Steal More Books? More Data
  6. Ethics Books More Popular in Britain
  7. Chalmers on "Modal Rationalism"
  8. New Book: Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic -- Now Online

November 2006

  1. Two Kinds of Habit?
  2. Most-Cited Ethics and Mind/Language books in the Stanford Encyclopedia
  3. Most-Cited Philosophers of Mind and Language in the Stanford Encyclopedia
  4. Most-Cited Ethicists in the Stanford Encyclopedia
  5. "Habituation" and Moral Development
  6. Can You Introspect Your Judgments?
  7. Those Annoying Security Warnings
  8. The Best-Guess Phenomenon and Degree of Belief
  9. Moral Philosophy as Pathology?
  10. Philosophers' Carnival #38
  11. PMS-WIPS: The Unreliability of Naive Introspection
  12. Weirdism

October 2006

  1. Can You See the Insides of Your Eyelids?
  2. The Pursuit (or Not) of Happiness
  3. Attensity
  4. Brief Hiatus
  5. A Plea for Stories about Virtue and Wickedness in Ethicists
  6. Philosophers' Carnival #37...
  7. Metaphysics, What?
  8. Intuitions in the Sandbox
  9. The Nisbett-Wilson Myth
  10. Ephemeral Belief?
  11. Unqualified Judgment Without Belief?
  12. Do Ethicists Steal More Books?
  13. Paranormal Phenomena and Substance Dualism

September 2006

  1. Brief Hiatus
  2. Purkinje on Visual Experience with One's Eyes Closed
  3. The New Philosophers' Carnival is
  4. Can You Touch Your Jaw and Feel It in Your Hand?
  5. Are Images Flat?
  6. Can People Imagine Things from Multiple Angles at Once?
  7. Are Images in Subjective Space?
  8. Philosophy of Mind and Science Works in Progress
  9. What is Low Self-Esteem? (by guest blogger Brad Cokelet)
  10. Black and Black
  11. What’s Wrong With Judging Others? - Part I (by guest blogger Brad Cokelet)
  12. The Troublesome Appeal of Eugenics
  13. Eastern Intuitions about Framing the Innocent (by guest blogger Brad Cokelet)
  14. Philosopher's Carnival #35 is...
  15. Do You Mostly See Double?
  16. Is Pride in a Sports Team Foolish Pride? (By Guest Blogger Brad Cokelet)

August 2006

  1. Sentence-Like vs. Map-Like Representations
  2. Is it Irrational to Wish to be Human? (by Guest Blogger Brad Cokelet)
  3. Implicit Belief and Tokens in the "Belief Box"
  4. Goldhagen's Challenge
  5. Nasal Phosphenes and the Extent of the Visual Field
  6. On (Not) Washing Your Car
  7. Keith Frankish on In-Between Cases of Believing...
  8. The New Philosophers' Carnival is...
  9. When Our Eyes Are Closed, What Do We See?
  10. My Long Encyclopedia Entry on "Belief"...
  11. Brad Cokelet Will Be Guest Blogging Here...
  12. Does Saying "I'm Thinking of a Pink Elephant" Make It True?
  13. Are Salty Experiences Salty? Are Square Experiences Square?
  14. When Your Eyes Are Closed...
  15. Degrees of Conscious Judging? Degrees, but Not of Confidence?
  16. The Splintered Mind Will Be Hosting...
  17. Dennett on Fictions about Consciousness
  18. The Golden Rule vs. Mencius's "Extension"
  19. The Prevalence of Afterimages?

July 2006

  1. The Paradox of the Preface
  2. Depression and Philosophy
  3. Do the Mundane Think in Prose?
  4. Philosophers' Carnival #33
  5. No Contradictory Beliefs?
  6. Do You Have a Heart?
  7. Knowing What You Love
  8. Emotional Engagement Vs. Philosophical Reflection
  9. Attunement to the Unknown
  10. Does Social Approval Excuse Vice More Than It Deflates Virtue?
  11. Thoughts That Linger
  12. The Philosophy of Hair
  13. Philosophers' Carnival #32
  14. Inner Speech and Motor Imagery
  15. What We "Believe"

June 2006

  1. Do We Experience Thought as in Our Heads?
  2. Inner Speech vs. Inner Hearing? Inner Sketching vs. Inner Seeing?
  3. Knowledge Without Belief?
  4. The Pace of Inner Speech
  5. History of Philosophy as a Source of Data for Psychology
  6. Is Inner Speech an Action?
  7. Do Three-Year-Olds Dream?
  8. Do We Think in Inner Speech?
  9. On the Epidemiology of Sexual Norms
  10. More Technical Difficulties
  11. The Morality of Ethics Professors: Survey
  12. Technical Difficulties
  13. The Flight of Colors
  14. Reporting What We Think, Want, and Fear
  15. Turning Back Your Eyes

May 2006

  1. Why Does "Believe" Have No Present Progressive?
  2. Happy Lynchers
  3. Images as "Pictures"
  4. Do Tilted Coins Look Elliptical? (Part Two)
  5. Do Tilted Coins Look Elliptical? (Part One)
  6. Can a State Be "Half-Conscious"?
  7. How Many People *Really* Believe in God and Heaven?
  8. What Does It Mean to Say "Human Nature Is Good"?
  9. Why Do the Good Guys Always Win in Morality Tales?
  10. Can There Be Non-Obvious Illusions?
  11. Development of the Moon Illusion?
  12. Is There an Experience of Thinking?
  13. Is Conscious Experience Rich or Thin? And How Does One Find Out?
  14. The Problem of the Ethics Professors

April 2006

  1. Do Some People Literally See Red When They're Angry?
  2. Do You Know If You're a Racist?

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