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The Splintered Mind

reflections in philosophy of psychology, broadly construed.

  • By Eric Schwitzgebel
  • Roughly five posts per month
  • First post on

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Most recent posts

New in Draft: The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; The Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness
(with Jeremy Pober) Over the past several years, I've posted a few times on what I call the "Copernican Argument" for thinking that behaviorally sophisticated space aliens would be conscious, even if they are constituted …
On , by Eric Schwitzgebel, 458 words
The Ethics of Harmonizing with the Dao
Reading the ancient Chinese philosophers Xunzi and Zhuangzi, I am inspired to articulate an ethics of harmonizing with the dao (the "way"). This ethics doesn't quite map onto any of the three conceptualizations of ethics …
On , by Eric Schwitzgebel, 1,525 words
An Objection to Chalmers's Fading Qualia Argument
[Note: This is a long and dense post. Buckle up.]In one chapter of his influential 1996 book, David Chalmers defends the view that consciousness arises in virtue of the functional organization of the brain rather …
On , by Eric Schwitzgebel, 3,004 words