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Tuesday December 27, 2016

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

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

Dispositionalism vs Representationalism about Belief

Storytelling in Philosophy Class

My Daughter's Rented Eyes

French, German, Greek, Latin, but Not Arabic, Chinese, or Sanskrit?

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?

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

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)

Short Story Competition: Philosophy Through Fiction

Susan Schneider on How to Prevent a Zombie Dictatorship

How to Accidentally Become a Zombie Robot

If You/I/We Live in a Sim, It Might Well Be a Short-Lived One

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

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

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

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

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