Essays of 2012
2012 was a good research year for me.
These essays appeared in print in 2012:
Introspection, what? In Smithies & Stoljar, eds., Introspection and Consciousness (Oxford).
Self-ignorance. In Liu & Perry, eds., Consciousness and the Self (Cambridge).
Ethicists' courtesy at philosophy conferences (with Rust, Huang, Moore, & Coates), Philosophical Psychology, 25, 331-340.
Expertise in moral reasoning? Order effects on moral judgment in professional philosophers and non-philosophers (with Cushman), Mind & Language, 27, 135-153.
Mad belief? Neuroethics, 5, 13-17.
These essays are finished and forthcoming:
A dispositional approach to attitudes: Thinking outside the belief box. In Nottelmann, ed., New essays on belief (Palgrave).
Knowing that P without believing that P (with Myers-Schulz). Nous.
The moral behavior of ethics professors: Relationships among self-reported behavior, expressed normative attitude, and directly observed behavior (with Rust). Philosophical Psychology.
Ethicists and non-ethicists' responsiveness to student emails: Relationships among expressed normative attitude, self-described behavior, and experimentally observed behavior (with Rust). Metaphilosophy.
These essays are currently drafted and circulating:
If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious.
Are ethicists any more likely to pay their registration fees at professional meetings?
Empirical evidence for the existence of an external world (with Moore).
The problem of known illusion and the resemblance of experience to reality.
Some favorite blog posts:
Do you have infinitely many beliefs about the number of planets?
Has civilization made moral progress? Sketch of an empirical test.
Steven Pinker: "Wow, how awesome we liberal intellectuals are!"
May 2013 be equally fruitful!