Writings of 2018
Every year on New Year's Day, I post a retrospect of the past year's writings. Here are the retrospects of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
This past year, I worked quite a bit on consciousness and Chinese philosophy, also some on AI ethics, moral psychology, belief, and the sociology of philosophy. May 2019 be similarly fruitful!
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Book forthcoming:
Jerks, Zombie Robots, and Other Philosophical Misadventures (provisional title), MIT Press.
Full-length non-fiction essays appearing in print in 2018:
"The experience of reading" (with Alan T. Moore), Consciousness & Cognition, 62, 57-68.
"Death, self, and oneness in the incomprehensible Zhuangzi", in P.J. Ivanhoe, O. Flanagan, R. Harrison, H. Sarkissian, and E. Schwitzgebel, eds., The Oneness Hypothesis, Columbia University Press.
"The insularity of Anglophone philosophy: Quantitative analyses" (with Linus Ta-Lun Huang, Andrew Higgins, and Ivan Cabrera Gonzalez), Philosophical Papers, 47, 21-48.
Full-length non-fiction essays finished and forthcoming:
"Kant meets cyberpunk", Disputatio.
"The unskilled Zhuangzi: Big and useless and not so good at catching rats", in Karyn Lai and Wai Wai Chiu, eds., Skill and Mastery. London: Roman and Littlefield.
"A new measure of life satisfaction: The Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale" (with Seth Margolis, Daniel J. Ozer, and Sonja Lyubomirsky). Journal of Personality Assessment.
"Designing AI with rights, consciousness, self-respect, and freedom" (with Mara Garza), in S.M. Liao, ed., The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. New York: Oxford.
Shorter non-fiction:
"Consciousness, idealism, and skepticism: Reflections on Jay Garfield’s Engaging Buddhism", Sophia (forthcoming).
"Reply to Hurlburt" (with Alan T. Moore), Consciousness & Cognition, 63, 143-145.
Editing work:
In print in 2018: The Oneness Hypothesis (with P.J. Ivanhoe, O. Flanagan, R. Harrison, and H. Sarkissian), Columbia University Press.
Under contract: Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories, (with Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt). Bloomsbury Press.
Non-fiction essays in draft and circulating:
Science fiction stories:
I didn't publish any new stories this year, though I have a few in draft that I plan to submit in 2019.
Some favorite blog posts:
Engaging with evil art: Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (Mar 8).
Birthday cake and a chapel (Apr 21).
Is C3P0 alive? (with Will Swanson, May 11).
Narrative, but not philosophical argument, motivates giving to charity (with Chris McVey, Nov 21).
Selected interviews:
What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? Eric Schwitzgebel (May 8, 2018).