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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?

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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

The Experience of Reading: Empirical Evidence

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

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)

The Philosophical Overton Window?

On Not Blogging While Jetlagged

Flying Free of the Deathbed, with Technological Help

Grounds for a Sliver of Skepticism

Imagining Yourself in Another's Shoes Vs. Extending Your Love

Writings of 2017