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Passion of the Sun Probe

The Bizarre Conversational Pragmatics of Oral Qualifying Exams and How to Fix Them

On Self-Defeating Skeptical Arguments

The Race and Gender of U.S. Philosophy PhDs: Trends Since 1973

Nazi Philosophers, World War I, and the Grand Wisdom Hypothesis

How to Publish a Journal Article in Philosophy: Advice for Graduate Students and New Assistant Professors

The Nesting Problem for Theories of Consciousness

Gender Proportions among Faculty in 98 PhD-Granting U.S. Philosophy Departments

Slippery In-Between Persons: Growing, Fading, Merging, Splitting

Black Students Are Increasingly Interested in Philosophy but Still Underrepresented among Graduating Majors (and Other Data on Race and the Philosophy Major)

Best Philosophical Science Fiction in the History of All Earth

Ethics Without the Costs: Two Tropes in Fiction

The Philosophy Major Is Back on the Rise (Kind of)

Some Good News, Some Bad News in the APA’s State of the Profession Report

The Copernican Principle of Consciousness

Why Writing Philosophy Is Hard (and Why Every Historical Philosopher Focuses on the Wrong Things)

Believing in Monsters: David Livingstone Smith on the Subhuman

Randomization and Causal Sparseness

What is "Validity" in Social Science? Validity As a Property of Inferences vs of Claims

Philosophy That Closes vs. Philosophy That Opens

It's Not Hard to Be Morally Excellent; You Just Choose Not To Be So

Does Studying Philosophy Change Your Real-World Behavior: Schwitzgebel vs. Schwitzgebel?

The 233 Most-Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Superficialism about Belief

The Peak-End Theory of Dessert: A New Philosophy of Wolfing

A Broad Ranging Interview at Scientific American

Demographic Trends in the Philosophy Major Might Be Mostly Due to Pre-College Factors

Contest Winner! A Philosophical Argument That Effectively Convinces Research Participants to Donate to Charity

How to Publish a Book in Philosophy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Part II)

Diversity in Philosophy Departments: Introduction

The Edge of Chaos

How to Publish a Book in Philosophy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Part I)

The Most Visible Academic Presses in Philosophy

Dispute Concerning Science Fiction, Philosophy, and the Nutritional Content of Maraschino Cherries

Gender and Sexual Orientation of First-Year Philosophy Students in the U.S.

Five Books of Philosophical Wonder

Your Infinite Counterparts

Performative Belief: The Blurry Line Between Acting As If You Believe and Really Believing

In Praise of Weirdness

The Unreliability of Naive Introspection

Wisdom and Chaos

Charity Argument Contest Update

Snail Weather

On Sharing Umbrellas

Feeling Bored? Isolated? Insufficiently Supplied with Philosophical Weirdness? Watch or Listen to a Wide-Ranging Two-Hour Interview about My Work

The Academic Jerk: A Wildlife Guide

Snail and Slug Consciousness and Semi-Unlimited (?) Associative Learning

Do Business Ethics Classes Make Students More Ethical? Students and Instructors Agree: They Do!

Question: Why Do Great Philosophers Embrace Such Wacky Views? Answer: The World Itself Is Wacky

Jerks of Academe: A Field Guide

Confucius (Kongzi) on Loving Learning

How to Be an Awesome First-Year Graduate Student (or a Very Advanced Undergrad)

Why Is It So Difficult to Imagine In-Between Cases of Conscious Experience?

New Anthology: Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories