2008–2026
1,344 posts
2026 44
October 2026
- An Argument for Vastly Many Observers Smaller than a Proton
- AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview Available Free Until Oct 19
- I Have Cancer
- Giving One's Life
- The Appeal of (Semi-?) Biological Naturalism about Consciousness
September 2026
- Should We Build AI Guardian Angels?
- Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights -- Chapter Zero
- New in Draft: "Walking the Walk"
- Types and Conditions of Moral Order
August 2026
- Summary of The Weirdness of the World
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2026
- AI and Consciousness
- Obfuscatory Philosophy as Intellectual Authoritarianism and Cowardice (repost)
- The Summer Illusion (repost)
July 2026
- The Cognitive Advantages of Being of Two Minds, or Twelve, or Twelve Hundred
- AI Slop and Evidence about Evidence: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose
- New Book in Draft! Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights
- Bare Functionalism Versus Digital Computational Functionalism
June 2026
- New in Draft: Strange Intelligence: Moral Puzzles of Unhumanlike AI
- Do Computers Have the Wrong "Substrate" for Consciousness? Two Flavors of Biological Naturalism
- Online Conferences Should be Better than In-Person Conferences, Not Worse
- Herbie: A Near-Future Debatably Conscious AI Person
May 2026
- New Paper in Draft: Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness (with Jeremy Pober)
- AI and the Degradation of the Human Capacity for Friendship (guest post by Grace Helton)
- ChatGPT Is Not Your Friend (guest post by Grace Helton)
- Superhuman Moral Standing
April 2026
- Twenty Years of The Splintered Mind
- Do Your Thing
- Kim Stanley Robinson on the Value of Science Fiction
- AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview, forthcoming with Cambridge
- So You're on the "Waiting List" for a Philosophy PhD Program
March 2026
- A Model of Disunified Human Experience
- Backup and Death for Humanlike AI
- Age and Fame in Philosophy
- Philosophy Should Be Among the Most Diverse Disciplines, Not the Least
February 2026
- Discussion Arcs for Topics and Philosophers
- Disunity and Indeterminacy in Artificial Consciousness (and Maybe in Human Consciousness Too)
- The Intrinsic Value of Diversity
- Artificial Intelligence as Strange Intelligence: Against Linear Models of Intelligence (New Paper in Draft)
January 2026
2025 60
December 2025
- "Severance", "The Substance", and Our Increasingly Splintered Selves
- How Much Should We Give a Joymachine?
- Debatable AI Persons: No Rights, Full Rights, Animal-Like Rights, Credence-Weighted Rights, or Patchy Rights?
- Can We Introspectively Test the Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness?
- Language Models Don't Accurately Describe How They Would Answer If Questions Were Posed in a Different Order (Favorite Animal Edition)
November 2025
- Four Aspects of Harmony
- Representational Realism and the Problem of Tacit Belief
- We Are God's Equals in Intrinsic Moral Value
- Debatable Persons in a Voluntary Polis
October 2025
- Letting Pass
- Two Dimensionalism about Other Minds, and Its Implications for Brain Organoids and Robots
- Eek! The Plummeting Philosophy Major in the U.S.
- Is AI Conscious? A Primer on the Myths and Confusions Driving the Debate
- New Book in Draft: AI and Consciousness
- Why Philosophy?
- Early Career Hugo Nominations -- Yes, They Definitely Happen
September 2025
- The Searle Chair
- DigiDan's "Mistake": Fidelity vs Novelty in Digital Replicas
- The Social Semi-Solution to the Question of AI Consciousness
- Women Earned 37% of U.S. Philosophy Doctorates in 2024, Up from 28% Ten Years Ago
- Are Weird Aliens Conscious? Three Arguments (Two of Which Fail)
August 2025
- Sacrificing Humans for Insects and AI: A Critical Review
- Defining "Artificial Intelligence"
- Minimal Autopoiesis in an AI System
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2025
July 2025
- Evolutionary Considerations Against a Plastic Utopia
- The Argument from Existential Debt
- Yayflies and Rebugnant Conclusions
- The Emotional Alignment Design Policy
- Three Epistemic Problems for Any Universal Theory of Consciousness
June 2025
- The Conceptual and Methodological Challenges of Developing a Moralometer
- Does the Arc of History Bend Toward Justice? Outline of an Empirical Test
- Types and Degrees of Turing Indistinguishability; Thinking and Consciousness
May 2025
- New Paper in Draft: Against Designing "Safe" and "Aligned" AI Persons (Even If They're Happy)
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philosophy: Good Practices Guide
- Ten Purportedly Essential Features of Consciousness
- The Awesomeness of Bad Art
- Everything Is Sandcastles
- When Is a Theory Superficial?
April 2025
- People with Unusual, Minority, Culturally Atypical, or Historically Underrepresented Experiences and Worldviews Should be Overrepresented in Philosophy, Rather than Underrepresented
- 16% of Authors in Elite Philosophy Journals Are Women
- Harmonizing with the Dao: Sketch of an Evaluative Framework
- New Paper in Draft: Superficialism about Belief, and How We Will Decide That Robots Believe
- Further Reflections on the Most-Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Underranked Works and Concentration Percentage
March 2025
- The Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Authors of the Most-Cited Works of Mainstream Anglophone Philosophy
- The 253 Most Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Writing Short Fiction: Suggestions for Academics
- A Dilemma for Nonlocal Theories of Consciousness
- Kings, Wizards, and Illusionism about Consciousness
February 2025
- New Story in Print: Guiding Star of Mall Patroller 4u-012
- Zombie is to Human as Human is to XXX?
- New in Print: The Necessity of Construct and External Validity for Deductive Causal Inference
- Introducing e-Schwitz: A Language Model Tuned on my Philosophical Work
- Imagining Yourself in Another's Shoes vs Extending Your Concern
- A Taxonomy of Validity: Eeek!
January 2025
2024 53
December 2024
- How to Create a Vengefull Kurtain Rods Song
- Reply to Chalmers: If I'm Living in a Simulation, It Might be Brief or Small
- Age and Philosophical Fame in the Early Twentieth Century
- Morally Confusing AI Systems Should Have Doubt-Producing Interfaces
November 2024
- Unified vs. Partly Disunified Reasoners
- Philosophical Fame, 1890-1960
- New in Draft: When Counting Conscious Subjects, the Result Needn't Always Be a Determinate Whole Number
- Three Models of the Experience of Dreaming: Phenomenal Hallucination, Imagination, and Doxastic Hallucination
- New in Draft: The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; The Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness
October 2024
- The Ethics of Harmonizing with the Dao
- An Objection to Chalmers's Fading Qualia Argument
- Join My Graduate Seminar on Robot, Alien, and AI Consciousness
- A Dispositionalist Approach to Desire and Valuing
- The Not-So-Silent Generation in Philosophy
September 2024
- How to Improve the Universe by Watching TV Alone in Your Room
- Against Designing AI Persons to be Safe and Aligned
- How Illuminating Is the Light?
- The Disunity of Consciousness in Everyday Experience
- Themes and Aims of My Science Fiction
August 2024
- Is Being Conscious Like "Having the Lights Turned On"?
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2024
- An Argument for Physical Laws Too Small-Scale and Too Large-Scale for Us to Detect
- Women Constitute 12% and People of Color 3% of the Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The 376 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Problem with Calling Trump and Vance Weird
July 2024
- A Metaethics of Alien Convergence
- How the Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness Works
- Color the World
June 2024
- Is the World Morally Well Ordered? Secular Versions of the "Problem of Evil"
- Conscious Subjects Needn't Be Determinately Countable: Generalizing Dennett's Fame in the Brain
- The Meta-Epistemic Objection to Longtermism
- Two-Layer Metaphysics: Reconciling Dispositionalism about Belief with Underlying Representational Architecture
May 2024
- Could We Eventually Have Moral Obligations to Non-Conscious Artificial Microbes?
- Formal Decision Theory Is an Optional Tool That Breaks When Values are Huge
- AI and Democracy: The Radical Future
April 2024
- Neurons Aren't Special: A Copernican Argument
- Flexible Pluralism about Others' Interpretation of Your Philosophical Work
- Philosophy and the Ring of Darkness
- Every Scholar Should Feel Relatively Underappreciated
March 2024
- Replika AI Recommends Jail Time for People Who Mistreat Her
- Mind-Bending Science and AI Rights
- Religious Believers Normally Do and Should Want Their Religious Credences to Align with Their Factual Beliefs
- The Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness
- The Leapfrog Hypothesis for AI Consciousness
February 2024
- Could Someone Still Be Collecting a Civil War Widow's Pension? A Possibility Proof
- What Types of Argument Convince People to Donate to Charity? Empirical Evidence
- Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressures for Easier Grading
- Swallows and Moles in Philosophy
January 2024
- Imagining Yourself in Another's Shoes vs. Extending Your Concern: Empirical and Ethical Differences
- The Weirdness of the World: Release Day and Introduction
- Demographic Trends in the U.S. Philosophy Major, 2001-2022 -- Including Total Majors, Second Majors, Gender, and Race
- Credence-Weighted Robot Rights?
- Writings of 2023
2023 57
December 2023
- Normativism about Swimming Holes, Anger, and Beliefs
- The Washout Argument Against Longtermism
- Could the Universe Be Infinite?
- Falling in Love with Machines
November 2023
- How We Will Decide that Large Language Models Have Beliefs
- Large Language Models are Interestingly Bad with the Periodic Table
- Quasi-Sociality: Toward Asymmetric Joint Actions with Artificial Systems
- Against the Finger
- The Prospects and Challenges of Measuring Morality, or: On the Possibility or Impossibility of a "Moralometer"
- Percent of U.S. Philosophy PhD Recipients Who Are Women: A 50-Year Perspective
October 2023
- Utilitarianism and Risk Amplification
- Gunkel's Criticism of the No-Relevant-Difference Argument for Robot Rights
- Strange Intelligence, Strange Philosophy
- Skeletal vs Fleshed-Out Philosophy
September 2023
- Elisabeth of Bohemia 1, Descartes 0
- Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 -- Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle
- Walking the Walk: Frankness and Social Proof
- One Reason to Walk the Walk: To Give Specific Content to Your Assertions
- Does It Matter If Ethicists Walk the Walk?
August 2023
- Beliefs Don't Need to Be Causes (if Dispositions Aren't)
- AI Systems Must Not Confuse Users about Their Sentience or Moral Status
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2023
- Philosophical Progress by Opening Up New Epistemic Possibilities
July 2023
- The Envy Argument Against the View That Teletransportation Is Death
- University of California Has Endorsed the "Principles for Online Majors and Programs" That I Co-Authored
- The Summer Illusion
June 2023
- Mostly Overlapping Minds: A Challenge for the View that Minds Are Necessarily Discrete
- Dishonesty among Honesty Researchers
- Flipping Pascal's Wager on Its Head
- New Paper in Draft: Introspection in Group Minds, Disunities of Consciousness, and Indiscrete Persons
- The Fundamental Argument for Dispositionalism about Belief
May 2023
- A Reason to Be More Skeptical of Robot Consciousness Than Alien Consciousness
- We Shouldn't "Box" Superintelligent AIs
- Pierre Menard, Author of My ChatGPT Plagiarized Essay
- Philosophy and Beauty and Beautiful Philosophy
- Optimism, Repetition, and Hopes for the Size of the Cosmos
April 2023
- New Voices in Philosophy
- "There Are No Chairs" Says the Illusionist, Sitting in One
- Power Clashing and the Structure of Practices
- The Black Hole Objection to Longtermism and Consequentialism
- Sexiness and Love Island
March 2023
- Wearing Band T-Shirts of Bands You Don’t Know
- The Emotional Alignment Design Policy
- Presentations, May 29 - April 6
- Don't Create AI Systems of Disputable Moral Status (Redux)
- New Paper in Draft: Let's Hope We're Not Living in a Simulation
- Don't Create AI Systems of Disputable Moral Status (op-ed version)
- God Stumbles Over the Power Cord
February 2023
- Moral Mediocrity, Apologizing for Vegetarianism, and Do-Gooder Derogation
- U.S. Philosophy PhDs Are Still Overwhelmingly Non-Hispanic White (Though a Bit Less So Than 10 Years Ago)
- How Not to Calculate Utilities in an Infinite Universe
- Larva Pupa Imago
January 2023
2022 57
December 2022
- The Moral Status of Alien Microbes, Plus a Thought about Artificial Life
- The Moral Measurement Problem: Four Flawed Methods
- An Objection to Chalmers's Fading Qualia Argument
- An Accurate Moralometer Would Be So Useful... but Also Horrible?
- A Chatbot's Take on "Moralometers"
November 2022
- The Egg Came First (Repost)
- Citation Rates by Academic Field: Philosophy Is Near the Bottom
- Credence-First Skepticism
- GPT-3 Can Talk Like the Philosopher Daniel Dennett Without Parroting His Words
October 2022
- Public Philosophy at UC Riverside -- an Invitation to PhD Applicants
- The Coming Robot Rights Catastrophe
- How Often Are Philosophy Articles Actually Cited? Encouraging News
- The Rational Pressure Argument
- What Makes for an Appropriately Rigorous and Engaging Online College Major?
- The wagon has three wheels: Reimagining philosophy of action from a working class perspective
September 2022
- The Value of Self-Contradiction in Zhuangzi
- Does the Heart Revolt at Evil? The Case of Racial Atrocities
- The Overlapping Dispositional Profiles of Different Types of Belief
- The Collusion Toward Moral Mediocrity
August 2022
- The Washout Argument Against Longtermism
- The Philosophy Major Continues to Recover and Diversify in the U.S.
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2022
- The Nature of Belief From a Philosophical Perspective, With Theoretical and Methodological Implications for Psychology and Cognitive Science
July 2022
- Results: The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?
- Narrative Stories Are More Effective Than Philosophical Arguments in Convincing Research Participants to Donate to Charity
- The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?
- Political Conservatives and Political Liberals Have Similar Views about the Goodness of Human Nature
June 2022
- If We're Living in a Simulation, The Gods Might Be Crazy
- Your Summer Reading, Sorted!
- Dispositionalism vs. Representationalism -- What's the Core Disagreement?
- The Continental/Analytic Divide Is Alive and Well in Philosophy: A Quantitative Analysis
- Infinite Puppetry
May 2022
- After a Taste-Bud Hiatus, Experiencing Candy Like a Six-Year-Old
- Our Infinite Predecessors: Flipping the Doomsday Argument on Its Head
- Draft Good Practice Guide: Sexual Harassment, Caregivers, and Student-Staff Relationships
- Everything Is Valuable
April 2022
- Will Today's Philosophical Work Still Be Discussed in 200 Years?
- Let's Hope We Don't Live in a Simulation
- Let Everyone Sparkle: Psychotechnology in the Year 2067
- New Essay in Draft: Dehumanizing the Cognitively Disabled: Commentary on Smith's Making Monsters
- Work on Robot Rights Doesn't Conflict with Work on Human Rights
March 2022
- Evening the Playing Field in Philosophy Classes
- The Parable of the Overconfident Student -- and Why Academic Philosophy Still Favors the Socially Privileged
- Some Recent Talks and Interviews
- How to Defeat Higher-Order Regress Arguments for Skepticism
- Do Androids Dream of Sanctuary Moon?
February 2022
- Social Change and the Science Fiction Imagination
- Qualitative Research Reveals a Potentially Huge Problem for Standard Methods in Experimental Philosophy
- The Time of Your Life
- Identity Across the Multiverse
- The COVID Jerk [a new piece by me in The Atlantic]
January 2022
2021 61
December 2021
- Against the "Value Alignment" of Future Artificial Intelligence
- The Dream Argument Against Utilitarianism and Hedonic Theories of Subjective Well-Being
- Uncle Iroh Is Discernibly Wise from the Beginning (with David Schwitzgebel)
- Comparing Three (No, Four) Top 20 Lists in Philosophy
November 2021
- Uncle Iroh as Daoist Sage
- What Is Belief? Call for Abstracts (£2,000 award)
- Two Robot-Generated Splintered Mind Posts
- Where Have All the Fodors Gone? Or: The Golden Age of Philosophical Naturalism
- Yep, It Replicates! Students Eat Less Meat After Studying the Ethics of Factory Farming
- The Schmombie Blues
- Reminder: What Is Belief? Call for Abstract Submissions (with £2,000 Award)
October 2021
- Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy: Full 2019 Series and Related Posts
- Would You Shut Off a Robot That *Might* Be Conscious? The Near Future of A.I. Rights
- New Book in Draft: The Weirdness of the World
- Disability, Sexuality, Political Leaning, Socio-Economic Background, and Other Demographic Data on Recent Philosophy PhD Recipients
- Podcast/YouTube Interview on Belief, Consciousness, and the Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors
- Michael Tye on Vagueness about Consciousness
- Philosophy, Doubt, and Value
September 2021
- Does the Heart Revolt at Evil? The Lynching of Rubin Stacey
- The Full Rights Dilemma for Future Robots
- Barcelona Principles for a Globally Inclusive Philosophy
- What is Belief? Call for Abstract Submissions
- The Philosophy Major Is Back, Now with More Women
August 2021
- Against Intellectualism about Belief (Prefaced by a Celebration of Academic Articles in General)
- An Argument for the Existence of Borderline Cases of Consciousness
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2021
- On the Apparent Inconceivability of Borderline Cases of Consciousness
July 2021
- Speaking with the Living, Speaking with the Dead, and Maybe Not Caring Which Is Which
- A New, Broad-Ranging Interview of Me
- The Philosophy of Art is the Philosophy of Technology
- Schools with the Most Philosophy Majors
June 2021
- The Art Solipsist
- New Article (Yay!) on How to Continue to Be Puzzled about Robot/A.I. Consciousness
- Chatting about Jerks with Myisha Cherry
- Review Drift
- Diversity and Equity in Recruitment and Retention
- What Zoom Removes
- New Data on the Racial/Ethnic and Gender Diversity of Philosophy Students and Faculty in the United States
May 2021
- What Schools Have the Most Racially Diverse* Philosophy Majors in the U.S.?
- Creeps and Creepiness
- Trends in the Job Market for Tenured Philosophers
April 2021
- Are 15 UCLA Anthropology Graduate Students Representative of the Los Angeles Population? More Thoughts on Henrich's The WEIRDest People in the World
- The Leaky Pipeline into Academic Philosophy for Black Students in the U.S.
- Why Are We Such Bad Introspectors?
- On Scientific Trust, Loose Summaries, and Henrich's WEIRDest People in the World
- Gender Disparity in Philosophy, by Race and Ethnicity
March 2021
- Empirical Relationships Among Five Types of Well-Being
- Almost Everything You Do Causes Almost Everything
- Love Is Love, and Slogans Need a Context of Examples
- More People Might Soon Think Robots Are Conscious and Deserve Rights
February 2021
- Philosophy More Popular as a Second Than a First Major -- Especially Among Women
- Three Faces of Validity: Internal, Construct, and External
- How to Respond to the Incredible Bizarreness of Panpsychism: Thoughts on Luke Roelofs' Combining Minds
- Adversarial Collaboration
- And the Winner of the Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories Flash Fiction Contest Is...
- Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories: YouTube Discussion with Joseph Orosco
January 2021
2020 62
December 2020
- Passion of the Sun Probe
- The Bizarre Conversational Pragmatics of Oral Qualifying Exams and How to Fix Them
- On Self-Defeating Skeptical Arguments
- Dreidel: A Seemingly Foolish Game That Contains the Moral World in Miniature
- The Race and Gender of U.S. Philosophy PhDs: Trends Since 1973
November 2020
- Nazi Philosophers, World War I, and the Grand Wisdom Hypothesis
- How to Publish a Journal Article in Philosophy: Advice for Graduate Students and New Assistant Professors
- The Nesting Problem for Theories of Consciousness
- Gender Proportions among Faculty in 98 PhD-Granting U.S. Philosophy Departments
October 2020
- Slippery In-Between Persons: Growing, Fading, Merging, Splitting
- Black Students Are Increasingly Interested in Philosophy but Still Underrepresented among Graduating Majors (and Other Data on Race and the Philosophy Major)
- Best Philosophical Science Fiction in the History of All Earth
- Ethics Without the Costs: Two Tropes in Fiction
- The Philosophy Major Is Back on the Rise (Kind of)
September 2020
- Some Good News, Some Bad News in the APA’s State of the Profession Report
- The Copernican Principle of Consciousness
- Why Writing Philosophy Is Hard (and Why Every Historical Philosopher Focuses on the Wrong Things)
- Believing in Monsters: David Livingstone Smith on the Subhuman
- Randomization and Causal Sparseness
August 2020
- What is "Validity" in Social Science? Validity As a Property of Inferences vs of Claims
- Philosophy That Closes vs. Philosophy That Opens
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2020
- It's Not Hard to Be Morally Excellent; You Just Choose Not To Be So
July 2020
- Does Studying Philosophy Change Your Real-World Behavior: Schwitzgebel vs. Schwitzgebel?
- The 233 Most-Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Superficialism about Belief
- The Peak-End Theory of Dessert: A New Philosophy of Wolfing
- A Broad Ranging Interview at Scientific American
- Demographic Trends in the Philosophy Major Might Be Mostly Due to Pre-College Factors
June 2020
- Contest Winner! A Philosophical Argument That Effectively Convinces Research Participants to Donate to Charity
- How to Publish a Book in Philosophy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Part II)
- Diversity in Philosophy Departments: Introduction
- The Edge of Chaos
- How to Publish a Book in Philosophy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Part I)
May 2020
- The Most Visible Academic Presses in Philosophy
- Dispute Concerning Science Fiction, Philosophy, and the Nutritional Content of Maraschino Cherries
- Gender and Sexual Orientation of First-Year Philosophy Students in the U.S.
- Five Books of Philosophical Wonder
- Your Infinite Counterparts
April 2020
- Performative Belief: The Blurry Line Between Acting As If You Believe and Really Believing
- In Praise of Weirdness
- The Unreliability of Naive Introspection
- Does It Matter If the Passover Story Is Literally True?
- Wisdom and Chaos
March 2020
- Charity Argument Contest Update
- Snail Weather
- On Sharing Umbrellas
- Feeling Bored? Isolated? Insufficiently Supplied with Philosophical Weirdness? Watch or Listen to a Wide-Ranging Two-Hour Interview about My Work
- The Academic Jerk: A Wildlife Guide
- Snail and Slug Consciousness and Semi-Unlimited (?) Associative Learning
- Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy, Part VII: After You Hear Back
February 2020
- Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy, Part VI: GRE Scores and Other Things
- Do Business Ethics Classes Make Students More Ethical? Students and Instructors Agree: They Do!
- Thoughts on Conjugal Love
- Question: Why Do Great Philosophers Embrace Such Wacky Views? Answer: The World Itself Is Wacky
- Jerks of Academe: A Field Guide
January 2020
2019 63
December 2019
- Argument Contest Deadline: Dec 31
- This Test for Machine Consciousness Has an Audience Problem
- The Philosophy Major Is Back on the Rise in the U.S., with Increasing Gender and Ethnic Diversity
- Dreidel: A Seemingly Foolish Game That Contains the Moral World in Miniature
- Argument Contest Deadline Coming December 31st!
- Two Kinds of Ethical Thinking?
- Self-Knowledge by Looking at Others
November 2019
- Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy, Part V: Statement of Purpose
- We Might Soon Build AI Who Deserve Rights
- Who Cares about Happiness?
- A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures
- How Mengzi Came up with Something Better Than the Golden Rule
October 2019
- Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy, Part IV: Writing Sample
- Philosophy Contest: Write a Philosophical Argument That Convinces Research Participants to Donate to Charity
- I'm Morally Good Enough Already, Thanks!
- New Kickstarter Project: Vital: The Future of Healthcare
- Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy, Part III: Letters of Recommendation
- So 2018?
- What Makes for a Good Philosophical Argument, and The Common Ground Problem for Animal Consciousness
September 2019
- Age Effects on SEP Citation, Plus the Baby Boom Philosophy Bust and The Winnowing of Greats
- Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy, Part II: Grades, Classes, and Institution of Origin
- In Praise of UC Riverside Undergraduates
- Aiming for Moral Mediocrity
August 2019
- Some Demographic Features of the Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The 295 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Why I Write Weird Stuff, Like "Kant Meets Cyberpunk"
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2019
- Bleg: Syllabi for Courses on Philosophy and Science Fiction
- Industrial-Grade Realism about Beliefs That P
July 2019
- Disadvantages of a Lingua Franca in Philosophy
- Lower-Ranked PhD-Programs in Philosophy Admit Students from a Wide Range of U.S. Undergraduate Institutions
- Ethics Classes Can Influence Student Behavior: Students Purchase Less Meat after Discussing Arguments for Vegetarianism
- Elite Philosophy PhD Programs Mostly Admit Students from Other Elite Schools (or Sorry, Cal State Undergrads, No Berkeley Grad School for You!)
June 2019
- Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy, Part I: Should You Apply, and Where?
- Will Philosophy Ever Come to an End?
- Why Academic Philosophy Ought to Be One of the Most Demographically Diverse Disciplines, Instead of One of the Least
May 2019
- The Dualist's Quadrilemma -- and All of Ours?
- Science Fiction as Philosophy
- Intuition, Disagreement, and a Rope Around the Earth
- The Ethics of Drones at the University of California
- Early Onset Summer Illusion
- Flavors of Group Consciousness: Vanilla, Strawberry, and Chunky Monkey with Extra Nuts
April 2019
- Animal Rights for Animal-Like AIs?
- Contest Idea: Can You Write an Philosophical Argument That Convinces Research Participants to Give Some of Their Bonus Money to Charity?
- Ethics in Publishing Philosophy
- Tell Us How to Fix the Lack of Diversity in Philosophy Departments
- Forthcoming: A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures
- Gaze of Robot, Gaze of Bird
March 2019
- Journey 2 Psychology
- Against the Mind-Package View of Minds
- New Podcast Interview: How Little Thou Can Know Thyself
- Most U.S. and German Ethicists Condemn Meat-Eating (or German Philosophers Think Meat Is the Wurst)
- Should You Defer to Ethical Experts?
- Thoughts, Judgments, and Beliefs -- What's the Difference?
- In Philosophy, Departments with More Women Faculty Award More PhDs to Women (Plus Some Other Interesting Facts)
February 2019
- Seven Principles of Humane PhD Advising
- Studying Ethics Should Influence Your Behavior (But It Doesn't Seem to)
- Is a Blind Person's Consciousness Partly Contained in Her Cane?
- Do You Have Whole Herds of Swiftly Forgotten Microbeliefs?
January 2019
2018 69
December 2018
- Some Structural Disadvantages of Interdisciplinary Research, and What to Do About Them
- New Experimental Philosophy Blog, and A New Study of Philosophers That Is Looking for Participants
- Philosophy as a Second Major: Data by Race and Gender
- Three Arguments for Alien Consciousness
- New Book Forthcoming: Jerks, Zombie Robots, and Other Philosophical Misadventures
- I Have a Little Dreidel, I Made It Out of... Plastic?
November 2018
- Has the Sharp Decline in Philosophy Majors Hit Bottom? (Plus Other Interesting NCES Data)
- Narrative but Not Philosophical Argument Motivates Giving to Charity
- Possible Backfire Effects of an Excellent Diversity Statement?
- The Phi Value of Integrated Information Theory Might Not Be Stable Across Small Changes in Neural Connectivity
October 2018
- Requiring My Students to Spend Two Hours Giving Someone Unusual Kindness, with No Formal Accountability or Reward
- New Essay in Draft: Is There Something It's Like to Be a Garden Snail?
- In Defense of Weekends, Evenings, Holidays, and Sleep
- Teaching Hitler, and My Neighbor's Attitude About the Holocaust
- Two Problems with Extending Theories of Consciousness to the Case of the Garden Snail
- Diversity and Philosophy Journals
September 2018
- Philosophical Skepticism Is, or Should Be, about Credence Rather Than Knowledge
- Are Garden Snails Conscious? Yes, No, or *Gong*
- One-Point-Five Cheers for a Hugo Award for a TV Show about Ethicists’ Moral Expertise
- Inflate and Explode
August 2018
- Rebecca Kukla on Diversifying Philosophy
- The Four-Implicature Theory of Fortune Cookies
- To Reduce the Risk of Moral Catastrophes, Should Society Hire Lots of Philosophers?
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2018
July 2018
- On What We Tell Pollsters
- My New Book in Draft
- Think of Your Dissertation as Your Longest Work, Not Your Best Work
- Two Ways of Being a Group Mind: Synchronic vs. Diachronic
- How to Create Immensely Valuable New Worlds by Donning Your Sunglasses
June 2018
- Sorry about the Lingering Unapproved Comments!
- Will Future Generations Find Us Especially Morally Loathsome?
- The Perceived Importance of Kant, as Measured by Advertisements for Specialists in His Work
- Slippery Slope Arguments and Discretely Countable Subjects of Experience
- Research Funding: The Pretty-Proposal Approach vs the Recent-Past-Results Approach
- Does It Harm Philosophy as a Discipline to Discuss the Apparently Meager Practical Effects of Studying Ethics?
May 2018
- An Argument Against Every General Theory of Consciousness
- "What Is It Like" Interview Now Freely Available
- Is C-3PO Alive?
- What Is It Like Interview
- The Rise and Fall of Philosophical Jargon
- Please Rate My Blog Posts for Inclusion in My Next Book
April 2018
- Three Ways Your Ethics Class Might Backfire
- Help Me Choose Posts for My Next Book: Consciousness
- Birthday Cake and a Chapel
- Help Me Choose Posts for My Next Book: Cosmology, Skepticism, and Weird Minds
- Why the Epistemology of Conscious Perception Needs a Theory of Consciousness
- Help Me Choose Posts for My Next Book: Culture and Humor
- The Experience of Reading: Empirical Evidence
March 2018
- Help Me Choose Posts for My Next Book: Belief, Desire, and Self-Knowledge
- Tell Us How to Fix the Lack of Diversity in Philosophy Journals
- Is Life Meaningful, or Is the World a Pointless Cesspool of Suffering and Death? New Scientific Evidence
- The Meaning of Life Quiz as a Learning Outcomes Measure
- Help Me Choose Posts for My Next Book: Technology Posts
- Help Me Choose Posts for My Next Book :-)
- A New Measure of Life Satisfaction: The Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale
- Engaging with Evil Art: Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Engaging with Evil Art
February 2018
- It's Not Just One Thing, to Believe There's a Gas Station on the Corner
- Why Moral and Philosophical Disagreements Are Especially Fertile Grounds for Rationalization (with Jon Ellis)
- Rationalization: Why Your Intelligence, Vigilance and Expertise Probably Don't Protect You (with Jon Ellis)
- Philosophy Relies on Those Double Majors
- Is Consciousness Sparse or Abundant? Five Dimensions of Analysis
- Designing AI with Rights, Consciousness, Self-Respect, and Freedom (with Mara Garza)
January 2018
2017 70
December 2017
- Some Universities Have About 20% Women Philosophy Majors and others About 40%, in Patterns Unlikely to Be Chance
- Philosophy Undergraduate Majors Aren't Very Black, but Neither Are They As White As You Might Have Thought
- Sharp Declines in Philosophy, History, and Language Majors Since 2010
- Dreidel: A seemingly foolish game that contains the moral world in miniature
- Women Have Been Earning 30-34% of Philosophy BAs in the U.S. Since Approximately Forever*
- Aiming for Moral Mediocrity
November 2017
- Yay Boo Strange Hope
- A Moral Dunning-Kruger Effect?
- Is It Perfectly Fine to Aim to be Morally Average?
- Two Roles for Belief Attribution
October 2017
- Rationally Speaking: Weird Ideas and Opaque Minds
- In 25 Years, Your Employer Will Directly Control Your Moods
- Practical and Impractical Advice for Philosophers Writing Fiction
- Should You Referee the Same Paper Twice, for Different Journals?
- New Essay in Draft: Kant Meets Cyberpunk
- Truth, Dare, and Wonder
- Do Philosophy Professors Tend to Come from Socially Elite Backgrounds?
September 2017
- How to Build an Immaterial Computer
- New Paper in Draft: The Insularity of Anglophone Philosophy: Quantitative Analyses
- What would it take for humanity to survive? (And does it matter if we do?) (guest post by Henry Shevlin)
- Writing for the 10%
- The Gamer's Dilemma (guest post by Henry Shevlin)
- How Often Do European Language Journals Cite English-Language vs Same-Language Work?
August 2017
- How Often Do Chinese Philosophy Journals Cite English-Language Work?
- Am I a Type or a Token? (guest post by Henry Shevlin)
- What Would (or Should) You Do With Administrator Access to Your Mind (guest post by Henry Shevlin)
- The Ethical Significance of Toddler Tantrums (guest post by Henry Shevlin)
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2017
- Welcome to the Blogosphere, Nomy Arpaly
- Why Was Sci-Fi So Slow to Discover Time Travel? (Guest Post by Henry Shevlin)
July 2017
- How Everyone Might Reasonably Believe They Are Much Better Than Average
- New Journal! The Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy
- Why I Evince No Worry about Super-Spartans
- THE TURING MACHINES OF BABEL
- What's the Likelihood That Your Mind Is Constituted by a Rabbit Reading and Writing on Long Strips of Turing Tape?
June 2017
- Icelandic Thoughts
- The Dauphin's Metaphysics, read by Tatiana Grey at Podcastle
- On Not Distinguishing Too Finely Among One's Motivations
- Academic Pyramids, Academic Tubes
- The Social-Role Defense of Robot Rights
May 2017
- Lynching, the Milgram Experiments, and the Question of Whether "Human Nature Is Good"
- Pre-Excuse
- Hint, Confirm, Remind
- The Sucky and the Awesome
- On Trump's Restraint and Good Judgment (I Hope)
- Is My Usage of "Crazy" Ableist?
- My Next Book...
April 2017
- The Happy Coincidence Defense and The-Most-I-Can-Do Sweet Spot
- Common Sense, Science Fiction, and Weird, Uncharitable History of Philosophy
- We Who Write Blogs Recommend... Blogs!
- Does It Matter If the Passover Story Is Literally True?
- Only 4% of Editorial Board Members of Top-Ranked Anglophone Philosophy Journals Are from Non-Anglophone Countries
March 2017
- On Being Accused of Ableism
- What Kinds of Universities Lack Philosophy Departments? Some Data
- Empathy, Anger, and the Richness of Life
- Why Wide Reflective Equilibrium in Ethics Might Fail
February 2017
- Call for Papers: Introspection Sucks!
- Belief Is Not a Norm of Assertion (but Knowledge Might Be)
- Human Nature Is Good: A Sketch of the Argument
- Should Ethics Professors Be Held to Higher Ethical Standards in Their Personal Behavior?
- The Unskilled Zhuangzi: Big and Useless and Not So Good at Catching Rats
January 2017
- David Livingstone Smith: The Politics of Salvation: Ideology, Propaganda, and Race in Trump's America
- What Happens to Democracy When the Experts Can't Be Both Factual and Balanced?
- Fiction Writing Workshop for Philosophers in Oxford, June 1-2
- The Philosopher's Rationalization-O-Meter
- Reminder: Philosophical Short Fiction Contest Deadline Feb 1
- AI Consciousness: A Reply to Schwitzgebel
- Cheers to a Philosopher and Fighter
- Against Charity in the History of Philosophy
- Writings of 2016, and Why I Love Philosophy
2016 81
December 2016
- A few days ago skye cleary interviewed
- Is Most of the Intelligence in the Universe Non-Conscious AI?
- Extraterrestrial Microbes and Being Alone in the Universe
- Is Consciousness an Illusion?
- A Philosophical Critique of the Big Bang Theory, in Four Minutes
November 2016
- How Everything You Do Might Have Huge Cosmic Significance
- The Odds of Getting Three Consecutive Wars in a Row in the Card Game
- The Moral Compass and the Liberal Ideal in Moral Education
- Three Ways to Be Not Quite Free of Racism
- Thought for the Day
- Use of "Genius", "Strict", and "Sexy" in Teaching Evaluations, by Discipline and Gender of Professor
- Introspecting an Attitude by Introspecting Its Conscious Face
October 2016
- Dispositionalism vs Representationalism about Belief
- Storytelling in Philosophy Class
- My Daughter's Rented Eyes
- French, German, Greek, Latin, but Not Arabic, Chinese, or Sanskrit?
September 2016
- New Essay in Draft: The Pragmatic Metaphysics of Belief
- Cory Doctorow Speaking at UC Riverside: "1998 Called, and It Wants Its Stupid Internet Laws Back"
- The Jerk Quiz: New York City Edition
- Call for Abstracts: Workshop in Graz on Dissonance and Implicit Bias
- The Jerk Quiz
- How to Tell If You're a Jerk
- Momentary Man
- Whirlwind Tour of New York City in October
- How Often Do Mainstream Anglophone Philosophers Cite Non-Anglophone Sources?
August 2016
- Direction and Misdirection in the First Sentence of a Story
- How to Diversify Philosophy: Two Thoughts and a Plea for More Suggestions
- Network Map of SF Writers That Philosophers Love
- Interview on Crazyism
- Philosophical SF: Updated Master List and 30 More Recommendations
- My 1000th Post. Whoa!
- Forty New Philosophical SF Recommendations
- The Mind/Body Problem Revisited
- Are the Social Elite Moral Experts?
- Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2016
- Survey on What Is Important in Philosophy
July 2016
- First Sentences Project (Part Five)
- The Ethics of Gauging the Interest of PhD Applicants Before Offering Admission or Financial Support
- First Sentences Project (Part Four)
- Under What Conditions Would You Upload into a Simulated World?
- First Sentences Project (Part Three)
- Wang Yangming on the Unity of Knowing and Acting
- First Sentences Project (Part Two)
- The First Sentences Project (Part One)
June 2016
- Short Story Competition: Philosophy Through Fiction
- Susan Schneider on How to Prevent a Zombie Dictatorship
- How to Accidentally Become a Zombie Robot
- Possible Architectures of Group Minds: Memory
- If You/I/We Live in a Sim, It Might Well Be a Short-Lived One
May 2016
- Percentage of Female Faculty at Elite U.S. Philosophy Departments, 1930-1979
- Empty Box Rationalization
- Whether to Take Peter Singer to McDonalds
- The Gender Situation Is Different in Philosophy
- New Op-Eds on Ethnic Diversity in Philosophy
- I Also Doubt That It Is Contingently So
- Possible Architectures of Group Minds: Perception
April 2016
- Orange on the Seder Plate
- Possible Cognitive and Cultural Effects of Video Lifelogging
- New Essay in Draft: Phenomenal Consciousness, Defined and Defended as Innocently as I Can Manage
- Paraphenomenal Experience: Conscious Experience Uncorrelated with Cognition and Behavior
- Awesome New SF Story about the Problem of Consciousness and Scientific Rationalization
- Some Pragmatic Considerations Against Intellectualism about Belief
March 2016
- Introspective Attention as Perception with a Twist
- My Workday as a Philosophy Professor
- "Crash Spaces" for Ancestral Ways of Meaning-Making
- Changes in the Race and Gender of U.S. Philosophy Faculty, 1988-2004
- New Paper in Draft: Rationalization in Moral and Philosophical Thought
- Like the Oscars, #PhilosophySoWhite
- From God to Skepticism
February 2016
- Genuine Philosophical Dialogues
- Phenomenal Consciousness, Conceptualized as Innocently as I Can Manage
- New Essay in Draft: Women in Philosophy: Quantitative Analyses of Specialization, Prevalence, Visibility, and Generational Change
- Pragmatic Metaphysics
- [Updated] APA Membership Goes from 2.4% to 5.4% Self-Reported Black or African-American in a Single Year?
- Cheerfully Suicidal A.I. Slaves
January 2016
- Rik Peels' Defense of the Reliability of Introspection
- New Essay in Draft: Is the United States Phenomenally Conscious? Reply to Kammerer
- Publications By Black Authors in Leiter Top 15 Journals 2003-2012
- Percentages of U.S. Doctorates in Philosophy Given to Women and to Minorities, 1973-2014
- So What If Moral and Philosophical Reasoning Is Post-Hoc Rationalization?
- Writings of 2015
2015 79
December 2015
- How Prominently Is Women's Philosophical Work Discussed? One Empirical Measure
- A Response to Critiques of Cushman's and My Work on Philosophers' Susceptibility to Order Effects
- Only 13% of Authors in Five Leading Philosophy Journals Are Women
- Will Your Driverless Car Kill You So That Others May Live?
- A Theory of Rationalization
November 2015
- Names in Philosophical Examples
- An Interview on AI Rights
- Percentage of Women at APA Meetings, 1955, 1975, 1995, 2015
- Why We Might Have Greater Obligations to Conscious Robots Than to Human Strangers
- Two Very Bad Wizards Ask Me about Ethics Professors
- Do Neurons Literally Have Preferences?
- The Journal of Unlikely Academia
October 2015
- Wow, This Amazing Puzzle Will Reveal How Stupid You Are! (Maybe)
- The Ends of Philosophy
- Kammerer's New Anti-Nesting Principle
- Consciousness Science and the Privileged Sample Problem
- "1% Skepticism" in Nous; "Experimental Evidence for the Existence of an External World" in JAPA
- The Los Angeles Times
- If Memories and Personality Make You "You", Here's How You Could Transfer into Another Body (Maybe)
- The Laughter of Ethicists
- Against the "Still Here" Reply to the Boltzmann Brains Problem
September 2015
- Microaggression and the Culture of Solidarity
- Some Video Interviews of Me
- A Theory of Hypocrisy
- Philosophical Conversations
- Chinese Philosophy & Intellectualism about Belief
- Ethics, Metaethics, and the Future of Morality
- The Invisible Portion of the Experiment
- Minds Online Conference
- A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences
August 2015
- A Philosophy Professor Discovers He's an AI in a Simulated World Run by a Sadistic Teenager
- Choosing to Be That Fellow Back Then: Voluntarism about Personal Identity
- Weird Minds Might Destabilize Human Ethics
- The Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2015
July 2015
- Against Intellectualism about Belief
- Podcast Interview of Me, about Ethicists' Moral Behavior
- Cute AI and the ASIMO Problem
- Philosophy Via Facebook? Why Not?
- The Moral Lives of Ethicists
- Helen de Cruz Interviews Me about Writing Speculative Fiction as a Philosopher
- Profanity Inflation, Profanity Migration, and the Paradox of Prohibition
- Why In-Between Belief Is Worse Than In-Between Extraversion
June 2015
- A New Podcast Interview of Me
- Celebrate the Nerd!
- Why Do We Care about Discovering Life, Exactly?
- What Philosophical Work Could Be
- Space Agencies Need, but Don't Appear to Have, Policies Governing Contact with Microbial Life on Mars
May 2015
- The Immortal's Dilemma
- Leading SF Novels: Academic Library Holdings and Citation Rates
- Moral Duties to Flawed Gods
- Network Map of Philosophical SF Authors
- Competing Perspectives on the Significance of One's Final, Dying Thought
- List of Philosophical Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction
- Momentary Sage
April 2015
- Duplicating the Universe
- How to Make Van Gogh's "Starry Night" Undulate
- New Essay: Death and Self in the Incomprehensible Zhuangzi
- Rules of War, the Card Game, with Deck Management (aka Modern War)
- How to Disregard Extremely Remote Possibilities
- Dialogues on Disability
- Comment Moderation Being Implemented
- Blogging and Philosophical Cognition
- Percentages of Women on the Program of the Pacific APA
March 2015
- "A" Is Red, "I" Is White, "X" Is Black -- Um, Why?
- On Being Blameworthy for Unwelcome Thoughts, Reactions, and Biases
- Perils of the Sweetheart
- Zhuangzi's Delightful Inconsistency about Death
February 2015
- Depressive Thinking Styles and Philosophy
- Why I Deny (Strong Versions of) Descriptive Cultural Moral Relativism
- The Intrinsic Value of Self-Knowledge
- How Robots and Monsters Might Break Human Moral Systems
- Brief Interview at The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
January 2015
- Not quite up to doing blog post this
- Memories of My Father
- Two Arguments for AI (or Robot) Rights: The No-Relevant-Difference Argument and the Simulation Argument
- Our Moral Duties to Artificial Intelligences
- The 10 Worst Things About Listicles
- Psychology Research in the Age of Social Media
- Writings of 2014
2014 88
December 2014
- "The Tyrant's Headache" in Sci Phi Journal
- The Moral World of Dreidel
- Nussbaum on the Moral Bright Side of Literature
- Moral Order and Immanent Justice
- Knowing Something That You Think Is Probably False
- "I Think There's About a 99.8% Chance That You Exist" Said the Skeptic
November 2014
- More Philosophical SF Recommendations
- Schindler's Truck
- My Reaction to David Chalmers's The Conscious Mind, 18 Years Later
- Two Views of the Relationship Between Philosophy and Science Fiction
- Philosophical SF: Thirty-Six Philosophers' Recommendations
October 2014
- Why I Will Be Contributing Rankings to the Gourmet Report
- Philosophical SF: Ninth Batch of Lists (Nichols, Wittkower, Brophy, and Yap)
- Philosophical SF: Eighth Batch of Lists (Sullivan, Clarke, Oppenheimer, Bernstein)
- Why Is It So Fun to Condemn People on Facebook?
- Sci Phi Journal Call for Papers
- Philosophical SF: Seventh Batch of Lists (Roy-Faderman, Clark, Schwitzgebel, and Killoren & Murphy)
- Philosophical SF: Sixth Batch of Lists (Campbell, Cameron, Easwaran, Briggs)
- Professional Philosophers’ Susceptibility to Order Effects and Framing Effects in Evaluating Moral Dilemmas
- Philosophical SF: Fifth Batch of Lists (Jollimore, Chalmers, Palma, Schneider)
- Sci Phi Journal
- Philosophical SF: Fourth Batch of Lists (Frankish, Blumson, Cash, Keeley)
- Possible Psychology of a Matrioshka Brain
- Philosophical SF: Third Batch of Lists
- Justin Coates at Flickers of Freedom, and Bragging
- Philosophical SF: The Second Batch of Lists
- On Aiming for Moral Mediocrity
September 2014
- Philosophical SF (Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction): Four Lists and a Project
- Three Kinds of Transparency in Self-Knowledge (Or Maybe 1 3/4 Kinds); and How the World Looks If You're Disagreeable
- Network Analysis of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The MacArthur Drought in Philosophy
- Use of "She" and "He" in Philosopher's Index Abstracts
- Council of UC Faculty Associations Statement on "Civility" and Academic Freedom
- Skill and Disability in Zhuangzi
- Philosophy Is Incredibly White -- but This Does Not Make It Unusual Among the Humanities
August 2014
- Brilliant Piece on Empathy by the Ever-Engaging Paul Bloom
- On the Boycott of Urbana-Champaign
- The Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines
- Why Don't We* Know Our Chinese Philosophy?
- SEP Citation Analysis Continued: Jewish, Non-Anglophone, Queer, and Disabled Philosophers
- SEP Citation Patterns: Further Analysis and Thoughts
- The 267 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Citation of Women and Ethnic Minorities in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Academic Urban Legends
- Citation Patterns in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Part 1
July 2014
- Moral Self-Knowledge by Looking at Others' Faces
- Wildcard Skepticism
- Eric Kaplan's Blog
- Tononi's Exclusion Postulate Would Make Consciousness (Nearly) Irrelevant
- Confessional Philosophy (repost)
- SpaceTimeMind Podcasts: Alien and Machine Minds, Death and Logic
June 2014
- The Calibration View of Moral Reflection
- Against Those Year-End Faculty Meetings to Discuss the Graduate Students
- Philosopher's Carnival #164
- Comic Schadenfreude and the Schadenfreude of Grace (by Jason Gray and Eric Schwitzgebel)
- A Theory of Jerks
- Okay, I Need This Shirt
- Two Million Pageviews
- Aaronson vs. Tononi on the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
May 2014
- Goldfish-Pool Immortality
- Ergo
- Metaphilosophical Tides in the Literature on Belief
- Group Organisms and the Fermi Paradox
- New Essay in Draft: 1% Skepticism
April 2014
- The 1935 Preface to Kant-Studien
- How to Be a Part of God's Mind
- What Kelp Remembers
- Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Religion on Crime: The Missing Positive Tail
- Philosophy Festival: "How the Light Gets In"
- The Incredible Shrinking Kid
- A Negative, Pluralist Account of Introspection
March 2014
- Our Moral Duties to Monsters
- SpaceTimeMind's First Podcast
- The Bait-and-Switch Blurring of Moral and Prudential in the World of Chutes and Ladders
- The Copernican Sweets of Not Looking Too Closely Inside an Alien's Head
- Does Skepticism Destroy Its Own Empirical Grounds?
February 2014
- I'm Glad I'm Not Real
- A Case for Pessimism about General Theories of Consciousess
- Might I Be a Cosmic Freak?
- Knowledge Without Belief and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion
- MIT Press BITS
January 2014
2013 87
December 2013
- The Moral Epistemology of the Jerk
- Should I Try to Fly, Just on the Off-Chance That This Might Be a Dreambody?
- How Subtly Do Philosophers Analyze Moral Dilemmas?
- Dream Skepticism and the Phenomenal Shadow of Belief
November 2013
- Reinstalling Eden
- Introspecting My Visual Experience "as of" Seeing a Hat?
- Skepticism, Godzilla, and the Artificial Computerized Many-Branching You
- Expert Disagreement as a Reason for Doubt about the Metaphysics of Mind (Or: David Chalmers Exists, Therefore You Don't Know)
- Striking Confirmation of the Spelunker Illusion
October 2013
- Being Two People at Once, with the Help of Linda Nagata
- On the Intrinsic Value of Moral Reflection
- An Argument That the Ideal Jerk Must Remain Ignorant of His Jerkitude
- The Nature of Desire: A Liberal, Dispositional Approach
- Second-Person vs. Third-Person Presentation of Moral Dilemmas
September 2013
- Philosophy Bites Podcast on the Ethical Behavior of Ethicists
- A Modest Proposal
- Fiction and Skepticism
- Perplexities of Consciousness Now in Paperback
- Discourse on the Size of God
- A Smidgen of Dream Skepticism
- Synchronized Movement and the Self-Other Boundary
- The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors and the Role of the Philosopher
August 2013
- The Experience of Reading: Imagery, Inner Speech, and Seeing the Words on the Page
- Three Dimensions of Disagreement about Emotional Experience
- Last Janitor of the Divine
- Do Ethics Classes Influence Students' Moral Behavior?
- On Creative Unproductivity
- What a Non-Effect Looks Like
July 2013
- Schoenfeld and Ioannidis: Is Everything We Eat Associated with Cancer? A Systematic Cookbook Review
- On the Morality of Hypotenuse Walking
- Epictetus on Living One's Philosophy
- Do Women Have Different Philosophical Intuitions Than Men?
- Ethics in the First Person
- New Philosophy Journal: Ergo
- The Individual Differences Reply to Introspective Pessimism
June 2013
- Ethics in the Second Person
- In China
- Telepathic Cyborg Rats!
- Portrayals of Dream Coloration in Mid-Twentieth Century Cinema
- My Boltzmann Continuants
- Invisible Revisions
May 2013
- 1% Skepticism
- Joshua Afire in Canaan
- Developments at the Brains Blog
- Is Crazyism Obvious?
- Tree
- What Are You Noticing When You Adjust Your Binoculars?
- SarahAbraham
- Two Types of Hallucination
- The Tyrant's Headache
April 2013
- Waterfall Skepticism
- John Searle's Homunculus Announces Phased Retirement
- A Somewhat Impractical Plan for Immortality
- The Mnemonists
- Does Tylenol Ease Existential Angst?
- The Jerk-Sweetie Spectrum
- Wanted: Examples of Jerkish Behavior
- Adam and Eve in the Happiness Pod
- Philosophers' Carnival Sequicentmensial!
- The Humor of Zhuangzi; the Self-Seriousness of Laozi
- The Splintered Mind Liability Release
- A Two-Seater Homunculus
March 2013
- Problematizing the B Condition on Knowledge
- Hans Reichenbach's Cubical World and Elliott Sober's Beach
- How to Give $1 Million a Year to Philosophers
- The Coolest of All Possible Worlds (a Theodicy for the 21st Century)
- Against the One True Kant
- The Spatial Location of Inner Speech
February 2013
- An Objection to Some Accounts of Self-Knowledge of Attitudes
- Empirical Evidence That the World Was Not Created Five Minutes Ago
- Consciousness Online 2013 Is Now Underway
- Was the Latter Half of the 20th Century a Golden Age for Philosophy?
- Consciousness Online 2013
- Apology to a Kindergartener
- Preliminary Evidence That the World Is Simple (An Exercise in Stupid Epistemology)
January 2013
- Metaphysical Skepticism a la Kriegel
- Oh That Darn Rationality, There It Goes Making Me Greedy Again!
- CFP: Consciousness and Experiential Psychology
- A Memory from Grad School
- Being the World's Foremost Expert on X Takes Time
- Blind Photographers
- The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Rationalist Delusion
- Fame Through Friend-Citation
- Fame Through Self-Citation
- The Emotional Psychology of Lynching
- On Trusting Your Sense of Fun
- Essays of 2012
2012 79
December 2012
- New Essay: Experimental Evidence of the Existence of an External World
- Animal Rights Advocate Eats Cheeseburger, So... What?
- Intuitions, Philosophy, and Experiment
- Second- vs. Third-Person Presentations of Moral Dilemmas
November 2012
- A Story in Which I Acquire Fisheyes, or The Paranoid Jeweler and the Sphere-Eye God
- Re-Post: Does Studying Economics Make You Selfish?
- New Essay: The Problem of Known Illusion and the Resemblance of Experience to Reality
- Aaron James's Theory of Assholes
- Tips for Writing Philosophy Papers
October 2012
- Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence, Scrambled Sideways
- Group Minds on Ringworld
- Do You have Infinitely Many Beliefs about the Number of Planets?
- Berkeleyan Polytheism
- Trip to Spain and France
September 2012
- What Experimental Philosophy Might Be
- New Essay: A Dispositional Approach to Attitudes, or Thinking Outside of the Belief Box
- Video: If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious
- Against Architectural Accounts of the Attitudes: Two Thought Experiments
- Speaking at Harvard and Tufts
- Forgetting as an Unwitting Confession of Your Values
- Has Civilization Made Moral Progress? Sketch of an Empirical Test
August 2012
- Desiring, Valuing, and Believing Good: Almost the Same Thing
- The Ghettoization of Nietzsche
- In Defense of Uncharitable and Superficial History of Philosophy
- The External World: Further Experimental Evidence of Its Existence
- Vogon Poetry Contest: Rules
July 2012
- Confessions of a Boltzmann Brain
- Chinese Philosophy Discussion Arcs
- "Propositional Attitudes": Belief vs. Desire Grudge Match
- Discussion Arcs of APA Presidents from the 1970s
- Deflating the Moral Thermostat
June 2012
- New Paper in Draft: If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious
- Chinese Room Persona
- New Data on The Generosity of Philosophy Students
- Moral Order and Happiness in Fiction
- Where Do We Go from Here? Some Final Thoughts
- Why Tononi Should Allow That Conscious Entities Can Have Conscious Parts
- The Armchair and the Lab Throne
May 2012
- Ruth Barcan Marcus Memorial Celebration
- Betelgeusian Beeheads
- What the Large Print Sayeth the Small Print Denieth
- Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy, Part V: Statement of Purpose
- Can a Rat Walk Down "Memory" Lane?
- On the Epistemic Status of Deathbed Regrets
- Second Annual "Experiment Month" Initiative
- Twilight of the (Scientific) Gods?
- Grounds for Dream Skepticism
- Martian Rabbit Superorganisms, Yeah!
April 2012
- Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt, Stanley Milgram, and King Xuan of Qi
- Bleg: Statements of Purpose / Personal Statements
- How Much Should You Care about How You Feel in Your Dreams?
- Steven Pinker: "Wow, How Awesome We Liberal Intellectuals Are!"
- On Whether the Job of an Ethicist Is Only to Theorize about Morality, Not to Be Moral
March 2012
- On Whether the Rich Are Jerks
- Why Tononi Should Think That the United States Is Conscious
- Final Call for Papers: Consciousness and Moral Cognition
- Ethicists No More Likely Than Non-Ethicists to Pay Their Registration Fees at APA Meetings
- Women's Roles in APA Meetings
- Cohen, Dennett, and Humphrey
- Why Humphrey Should Think That the United States Is Conscious
- The Instability of Professional Philosophers' Endorsement of the Famous "Doctrine of the Double Effect"
February 2012
- Cohen and Dennett on Reportability and Consciousness
- Experimental Philosophy Institute 2012
- New Blog on the Philosophy of Cosmology
- Faux Philosophy News
- 4th Online Consciousness Conference
- Why Dretske Should Think That the United States Is Conscious
- A 15-Minute Survey on Stereotypes about Philosophy
- The Surprising and Disappointing Predictors of Success in UCR's Philosophy PhD Program
- Why Dennett Should Think That the United States Is Conscious
- Steinblog
- The Egg Came First
January 2012
2011 69
December 2011
- Call for Papers: Consciousness and Moral Cognition
- Against Increasing the Power of Grant Agencies in Philosophy
- Frege's Puzzle and In-Between Cases of Believing
- Descartes, Moore, Whatevs!
- Creativity and Dishonesty
- The Baby Boom Philosophy Bust
November 2011
- Can the Skeptic Suspend All Belief?
- The Empirical Use of History of Philosophy
- A Million Hits
- Empirical Evidence Against My View of Dream Reports
- Four Accounts of Philosophical Moral Reflection
- The Crazyist Metaphysics of Mind
October 2011
- Is the United States Conscious?
- Sorry, Cal State Students, No Princeton Grad School for You!
- Obfuscatory Philosophy as Intellectual Authoritarianism and Cowardice
- Graduate School Application Advice
- David Lewis, Anesthesia by Genocide, and a Materialistic Trilemma
- Dualists' Troubles with Common Sense
September 2011
- Bartels and Pizarro: Consequentialists Are Psychopaths
- Why Metaphysics Is Always Bizarre
- The External World: More Experimental Evidence of Its Existence
- "Ethicists' Courtesy at Philosophy Conferences" (Schwitzgebel, Rust, Huang, Moore, and Coates)
- You Are Invited to Submit Questions about My 2011 Book, Perplexities of Consciousness to...
- Thomas Reid, Champion of Common Sense, on the Immaterial Souls of Vegetables
- Bostrom's Response to My Discussion of the Simulation Argument
August 2011
- On Bostrom's Argument That You May Well Be a Computer Simulation
- New: Paperback release of Hulburt & Schwitzgebel (2007), Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic
- On Containers and Content, with a Cautionary Note to Philosophers of Mind
- Stanley Fish in the New York Times: Philosophy Doesn't Matter
July 2011
June 2011
- The External World: Preliminary Experimental Evidence of Its Existence
- Boethius on What a Philosopher Is
- New Podcast Series: New Books in Philosophy
- I Am Staying at UCR After All
- Hohwy on Phenomenal Variability
May 2011
- Disjunctive Metaphysics
- Reviews of Perplexities of Consciousness
- A Half Million Visitors
- Group Consciousness
- Embodied Introspection
- Schwitzgebel Kant
April 2011
- Against Kant on Rationalization
- Interested as Participating as a Subject in Experimental Philosophy?
- Leaving UC Riverside for Australian National University in July
- Does the World Look Upside-Down Through Inverting Lenses, Once You're Used to Them?
- To the Viagra Spammer
March 2011
- To Australia, and Representational Realism
- The Apparent Location of Mirror Images
- The Harvard Humanists, Early 1960s
- The Instability of Philosophers' Judgments about Hypothetical Moral Scenarios
- Australian National University
- The Self-Reported Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors
- Oliver Sacks: Through One Eye, the World Looks Flat; Through Two, The World Has Depth
- The Popular Persistence of Fading Philosophers
- Special Journal Issue on My Book with Hurlburt, Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic
- Call for Papers: Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness, etc., Graduate Student Conference in St. Louis
February 2011
- Does Thinking about Applied Ethics Generate Mainly Remorse Rather Than Behavior Change?
- The Wason Selection Task and the Limits of Human Philosophical Cognition
- My New Book, Perplexities of Consciousness
- German and English Philosophers in 1914: "World War Is a Wonderful Idea!"
- Imagery in Front of One's Forehead
- Ethicists' Courtesy at Philosophy Conferences
January 2011
2010 86
December 2010
- Nazi Philosophers
- My Forthcoming Book
- Philosophy Professor Has Students Vote on Whether He Should Donate a Kidney to a Stranger
- Philosophers Buying Into Nazi Censorship?
- German Tour in January
- Luke Muehlhauser Interviews Me about Self-Knowledge of Conscious Experience and about the Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors
- "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear"
- Not in JFP: Tenure-track Position at UCR in History of Philosophy
- Some Awesomely Beautiful Pictures of Structures in the Brain
November 2010
- Professors' Moral Attitudes about Responding to Student Emails Are Almost Completely Unrelated to Their Actual Responsiveness to Student Emails
- Carruthers and Schwitzgebel on Knowledge of Attitudes
- The Phenomenology of Being a Jerk
- Not By Argument Alone (by Guest Blogger G. Randolph Mayes)
October 2010
- The Convincing Explanation (by Guest Blogger G. Randolph Mayes)
- Mad Belief?
- Why We Procrastinate (by guest blogger G. Randolph Mayes)
- U.C. Regents to Add Air Consumption Fee
- The Illusion of Understanding (by guest blogger G. Randolph Mayes)
- Poor, Unloved Auguste Comte
- Is Explanation the Foundation? (by guest blogger G. Randolph Mayes)
- Applying to Graduate School in Philosophy
- Explaining Irrationality (by guest blogger G. Randolph Mayes)
September 2010
- Brie Gertler and I Argue about Introspection on Philosophy TV
- Are Ethicists Any More Likely to be Blood or Organ Donors Than Are Other Professors?
- Graduate Student Conference on... Me?
- Perplexities of Consciousness: cover design
- How to Get a Big Head in Academia
- Can We All Become Delusional with Hypnosis? by guest blogger Lisa Bortolotti
- How Big the Moon Is, According to One Three-Year-Old
- Are People Responsible for Acting on Delusions? by guest blogger Lisa Bortolotti
- Philosophy TV Launch
- Are Ethicists More Attentive Daughters and Sons?
August 2010
- Delusions and Action (by guest blogger Lisa Bortolotti)
- Philosopher's Annual vs. Philosophical Review
- Delusions and Self-Knowledge (by guest blogger Lisa Bortolotti)
- Josh Knobe & Eric Schwitzgebel Chatting about the Moral Behavior of Ethicists
- The Spelunker Illusion
- Can You Believe That You Are Dead? (by guest blogger Lisa Bortolotti)
- On the Moral Behavior of Moral Psychology Researchers
- Clinical Delusions: What Are They? (by guest blogger Lisa Bortolotti)
- Knowing That P Without Believing That P
July 2010
- Self-Unconsciousness
- Young Female Philosophers Must Feel Bad About All That Meat They Eat
- Yosemite
- John Stuart Mill on the Value of Moral Disagreement
- The Nature of Attitudes
June 2010
- Psychology of Philosophy: The Strong Program
- Call for Papers: Workshop on Ethics and Mind at the University of Miami
- The Winner of the Sound-Color Qualia Inversion Contest
- Do Metaethicists Really Behave Worse Than Other Ethicists?
- Do Kantians Really Behave Worse Than Other Ethicists?
- Ethicists' vs Non-Ethicists' Honesty in Questionnaire Responses
- An Opportunity to Collaborate with Psychologists on Experimental Philosophy Research
May 2010
- Qualia Inversion: Sound and Color (A Contest with a "Valuable Prize"!)
- 55-Year-Old Philosophers vs. 55-Year-Old Scientists
- Paul Hoffman
- The Rise of Ethics and Feminism
- At What Age Do Philosophers Do Their Most Influential Work?
- Most Cited Journals in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The 200 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Forty Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Distribution of Subspecialites among Anglophone Research Philosophers
April 2010
- Heidegger and Wittgenstein Break Away from the Pack
- Discussion Arcs
- Chalmers's Fading/Dancing Qualia and Self-Knowledge
- The Moral Behavior of Super-Duper Artificial Intelligences
- What's in People's Stream of Experience During Philosophy Talks?
March 2010
- Introspection, What?
- On Being Good at Seeming Smart
- The Boxology of Self-Knowledge
- Knowing What You Don’t Believe
- Conference: Experimental Philosophy and the Ethics of Autonomy
- Kant on Killing Bastards, on Masturbation, on Wives and Servants, on Organ Donation, Homosexuality, and Tyrants
- Get Beeped and Argue about it with Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel
- Fooling Oneself: Comments on Moeller's The Moral Fool
February 2010
- The Review of Philosophy and Psychology
- How Far Away Is the Television Screen of Visual Experience?
- Second Annual Consciousness Online Conference
- Another Simple Argument Against Any General Theory of Consciousness
- Cognitive Shielding
- My entry on "Introspection" is now up in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Podcast of "An Empirical Perspective on the Mencius-Xunzi Debate about Human Nature"
January 2010
2009 83
December 2009
- John Stuart Mill's Mother
- Worried about the University of California?
- Professorial Product Placement
- Map of the Analytic Philosopher's Brain
- Do Ethicists Steal More Books?
- Does the Majority of Philosophers Think that the External World Exists?
- Lebensraum / Elbow Room
November 2009
- The Experience of Reading
- On Measuring People Twice
- Perplexities of Consciousness, submitted draft
- Winner's Way
October 2009
- A Very Simple Argument Against Any General Theory of Consciousness
- Curveball Illusion
- Epistemic and Phenomenal Consciousness
- Review of Structure of Scientific Revolutions in the British Journal for Philosophy of Science
- Applying to Graduate School in Philosophy
- The Transparency of Warped Windows
- The Second Consciousness Online Conference
September 2009
- Visual Imagery of Sensory Impossibilities
- One Reason I'm Worried About My Concept of Consciousness
- Applying to MA Programs in Philosophy
- Confessional Philosophy
- Why All the Children -- I Mean Philosophers -- Are Above Average
- What Is It Like to Feel Sleepy?
August 2009
- Reconstructive Memory (vs. Storage and Retrieval) and "Experience Sampling"
- The Unreliability of Naive Introspection
- A New Experimental Philosophy Page
- Philosophers' Honesty in Responding to Questionnaires
- Chapter 4 of Perplexities: Human Echolocation
- Radio Interview: Are Ethicists Ethical?
- In Recruiting Members, the APA Doesn't Appeal As Effectively to Self-Interest As Do Other Academic Disciplinary Societies
- Has Anyone Ever Pushed the Fat Man off the Footbridge?
July 2009
- Professors on the Morality of Voting
- On Relying on Self-Report: Happiness and Charity
- The Smallish Difference Between Belief and Desire
- On Debunking V: The Final Chapter
June 2009
- The Mystery of the Chiming Bell
- Friends of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Avowing Dream Skepticism in a Dream
- Are Ethicists Any More Responsive to Undergraduate Emails Than Are Other Professors?
- Alternatives to the Burning Armchair
- The Human Pseudopod: Michotte on Bodily Phenomenology
- The Moral Behavior of Ethicists: Peer Opinion
- Wundt on Self-Observation and Inner Perception
- On Debunking IV: Non-Selective Debunking
May 2009
- A Landmark
- When Your Eyes Are Closed, What Do You See?
- On Debunking III: A Surprising Concession from JJC Smart
- Do Ethicists Eat Less Meat?
- On Debunking Part Deux: Selective Debunking in Metaethics.
- Do You Have Constant Tactile Experience of Your Feet in Your Shoes?
- On Debunking (by guest blogger Tamler Sommers)
- Titchener's Introspective Training Manual
- When Are Introspective Judgments Reliable?
April 2009
- April 29-30: Fullerton Philosophy Conference: Consciousness and the Self
- When Is It Time to Retire?
- The Purview of Human Subjects Committees
- Why the Gourmet Report is a Failure
- Where Does It Look Like Your Nose Is?
- Armchair Sociology of the Profession IV: Splintered Fields
- Why Does the Pacific APA End on Easter?
- On Encouraging Children to Reflect about Morality
- Armchair Sociology of the Profession, part 3: A Manifesto on Geography and Social Networks
March 2009
- Armchair Sociology 101, part 2: Further Ruminations on The Two Models
- Perplexities of Consciousness, Ch. 3: Galton's Other Folly
- Armchair Sociology of the Profession 101: Two Models of Philosophical Production
- Political Scientists and Political Philosophers Aren't More Likely to Show Extreme Patterns in Vote Rate
- Philosophical Trust
- What Is an Illusion, Exactly?
- Do Things Look Flat?
February 2009
- The Strange Stability of UCR's Gourmet Ranking
- The Consciousness Online Conference
- Will You Perceive the Event That Kills You?
- Is Philosophy All in Our Heads?
- Recoloring the Dreamworld
- Anxiety, Neurosis, Noctural Female Orgasm, and Sabbatical
- The Legend of the Leaning Behaviorist
January 2009
2008 96
December 2008
- Andrew Sullivan on "Why I Blog"
- Zhuangzi: Big and Useless -- and Not So Good at Catching Rats
- Keith Frankish Replies to Dominic Murphy on Mind and Supermind
- Do Chinese Philosophers Think Tilted Coins Look Elliptical?
- Being Thirsty and Thinking You're Thirsty
November 2008
- New Studies on Black and White vs. Colored Dreaming
- Against Grant Applications
- Consciousness Without Attention?
- Mad Belief?
- Can Inferences Sometimes Lead to Knowledge Even if Their Premises Are False?
October 2008
- The Odor of Evil
- A New Blog: Cognition and Culture...
- New Version of the Moral Sense Test, Especially Designed for Philosophers
- The Crisis in Chinese Philosophy
- Applying to Graduate School in Philosophy
- Geekend 2008
- What Is Philosophy?
September 2008
- Is Everything that Breaks Breakable?
- In-Between Believing: The Implicit Racist
- Six Ways to Know Your Mind
- End of (Philosophical) Innocence
- What Is It Like Not to Notice a Typo?
- Schwitzgeblia
- Thoughts on Conjugal Love
- Causality, Reference, and the Mind/Brain Identity Theory (by guest blogger Teed Rockwell)
August 2008
- Philosophical Dialogues
- More Data on Professors' Voting Habits: Variability and Conscientiousness
- Zhuangzi's Coffin and Liu Ling's Trousers
- Which Machine Is Conscious? (by guest blogger Teed Rockwell)
- Working to Ignore Our Vice
- 3 Science Stoppers (by guest blogger Teed Rockwell)
July 2008
- The Linguistic U-Turn
- Why Zombies Are Impossible (by guest blogger Teed Rockwell)
- Yet One More Reason to Believe in Divine Dispassion...
- In Philosophy, Women Move More Slowly to Tenure Than Do Men
- Why there is No Magic in the Harry Potter Books (by guest blogger Teed Rockwell)
- Do Words Ever Feel Like They're Literally on the Tip of Your Tongue?
- How to Make a Rabbit’s Nose out of Electric Jello (by guest blogger Teed Rockwell)
- Against Metaphysics, Especially the Metaphysics of Consciousness
June 2008
- What Is a Word, If a Baby Can Say It?
- The Psychology of Philosophy
- Ethicists and Political Philosophers Vote Less Often, Apparently, Than Other Philosophers
- Political Scientists Vote More Often Than Other Professors
- Experimental Philosophy Survey
- Political Affiliations of American Philosophers, Political Scientists, and Other Academics
- Self-Blindness?
May 2008
- More Philosophy Ph.D. Admissions Data from U.C. Riverside
- Will the Real Issue Please Stand Up? (by guest blogger Bryan Van Norden)
- The Unreliability of Naive Introspection...
- What Sorts of People Should There Be?
- Defining "Consciousness"
- The Hermeneutic Alternative (by guest blogger Bryan Van Norden)
- Philosophers' Spouses
- Philosophers Don't Get No Respect (by guest blogger Bryan Van Norden)
- Crossing Cultures in Free Will (by Guest Blogger Hagop Sarkissian)
- Unsolicited Advice to Students and Their Advisors (by guest blogger Bryan Van Norden)
April 2008
- Does Studying Economics Make You Selfish?
- Qi (Ch'i) and Moral Psychology
- "Mama" as an Early Expression of Need?
- Tucson Presentation
- Experiential Blanks
- First Draft to Publication, Fifteen Years
March 2008
- Dongguan Orphanage, Guangdong Province, China
- The Problem of De in the Analects: Hard and Easy (pt. 2) (by Guest Blogger Hagop Sarkissian)
- Welcome, Kate!
- Objectivism, Relativism, and Squatter's Rights in Metaethics (by Guest Blogger Hagop Sarkissian)
- The Problem of De in the Analects: Hard and Easy (pt. 1) (by Guest Blogger Hagop Sarkissian
- Situationism and the Self-Centeredness of Virtue Ethics (by Guest Blogger Hagop Sarkissian)
- In China
- Is It Just Very Different in Iran?
- Judging Others: When It's Bad, It's Worse Than You Think (by Guest Blogger Hagop Sarkissian)
- Traveling to China
February 2008
- Is Philosophical Moral Reflection Behaviorally Inert?
- Selfless?
- Squaring the Circle, in Malcolm's Dreams
- More on Admissions
- Admissions (and Sleep)
- When Will Ethicists Behave Better and When Worse?
- The Bivalence of Moral Reflection
- On "Steep" Learning Curves (Or: Hackling at Tilted Petards)
- Does the Sun Look One Foot Wide?
- The Phenomenology of a Memory Whiz
- H.H. Price on the Apparent Size of Very Nearby Objects
January 2008
- The Richness of Experience and the Collapse of Consciousness Studies
- "Toys R Us". Are They Us?
- Consciousness While Reading -- Is It Visual? Imagistic? Auditory?
- Bertrand Russell on the Philosopher's Temperament
- The Rule of Three
- Call for Papers: Special Journal Issue on Experimental Philosophy
- Color and Dream Experience in Philosophy, 1940-1959
- Rationalizing Emotions and The Moral Behavior of Kantians
- Updated Photo
- Peripheral Vision: Mapping Color onto Shape
- Book Review
- Inner Speech, Imageless Thought, and Bilinguality
- How I Know I'm Not Dreaming (I Think)