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The Moral Status of Alien Microbes, Plus a Thought about Artificial Life

The Moral Measurement Problem: Four Flawed Methods

An Objection to Chalmers's Fading Qualia Argument

An Accurate Moralometer Would Be So Useful... but Also Horrible?

A Chatbot's Take on "Moralometers"

The Egg Came First (Repost)

Citation Rates by Academic Field: Philosophy Is Near the Bottom

Credence-First Skepticism

GPT-3 Can Talk Like the Philosopher Daniel Dennett Without Parroting His Words

Public Philosophy at UC Riverside -- an Invitation to PhD Applicants

The Coming Robot Rights Catastrophe

How Often Are Philosophy Articles Actually Cited? Encouraging News

The Rational Pressure Argument

What Makes for an Appropriately Rigorous and Engaging Online College Major?

The wagon has three wheels: Reimagining philosophy of action from a working class perspective

The Value of Self-Contradiction in Zhuangzi

Does the Heart Revolt at Evil? The Case of Racial Atrocities

The Overlapping Dispositional Profiles of Different Types of Belief

The Collusion Toward Moral Mediocrity

The Washout Argument Against Longtermism

The Philosophy Major Continues to Recover and Diversify in the U.S.

The Nature of Belief From a Philosophical Perspective, With Theoretical and Methodological Implications for Psychology and Cognitive Science

Results: The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?

Narrative Stories Are More Effective Than Philosophical Arguments in Convincing Research Participants to Donate to Charity

The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?

Political Conservatives and Political Liberals Have Similar Views about the Goodness of Human Nature

If We're Living in a Simulation, The Gods Might Be Crazy

Your Summer Reading, Sorted!

The Continental/Analytic Divide Is Alive and Well in Philosophy: A Quantitative Analysis

Infinite Puppetry

After a Taste-Bud Hiatus, Experiencing Candy Like a Six-Year-Old

Our Infinite Predecessors: Flipping the Doomsday Argument on Its Head

Draft Good Practice Guide: Sexual Harassment, Caregivers, and Student-Staff Relationships

Everything Is Valuable

Will Today's Philosophical Work Still Be Discussed in 200 Years?

Let's Hope We Don't Live in a Simulation

Let Everyone Sparkle: Psychotechnology in the Year 2067

New Essay in Draft: Dehumanizing the Cognitively Disabled: Commentary on Smith's Making Monsters

Work on Robot Rights Doesn't Conflict with Work on Human Rights

Evening the Playing Field in Philosophy Classes

The Parable of the Overconfident Student -- and Why Academic Philosophy Still Favors the Socially Privileged

Some Recent Talks and Interviews

How to Defeat Higher-Order Regress Arguments for Skepticism

Do Androids Dream of Sanctuary Moon?

Social Change and the Science Fiction Imagination

Qualitative Research Reveals a Potentially Huge Problem for Standard Methods in Experimental Philosophy

The Time of Your Life

Identity Across the Multiverse

The COVID Jerk [a new piece by me in The Atlantic]

What Is It Like to Be a Plant?

Reflections on Science Fiction as Philosophy, Plus Zombie Robots

Learning from Science Fiction

Ethical Efficiencies

Against Longtermism

Writings of 2021