Sitemap - 2012 - The Splintered Mind

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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"

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

The Base Rate of Kant

Broad-Ranging Interview on My Work

Kant Meets Cyberpunk

Consciousness Online

The Crazyist Metaphysics of Mind: Short, Folksy Version

For All X, There's Philosophy of X...

Is Solipsism Simple?