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What Is It Like to Be a Nagel? 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
by Steve Neumann Much to my parents’ chagrin, I was a teenage somnambulist. Like my father and brother before me, I would periodically wander the tiny halls and stairs of our small house in the middl...
My best papers: Biology, part I (1993-1999) 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
by Massimo Pigliucci So, I'm about to reach half a century of existence on this planet. An arbitrary threshold, for sure, but one that nonetheless has some psychological resonance for most human bein...
Does philosophy have a sexual harassment problem? 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
by Massimo Pigliucci Last week Jennifer Saul, a philosopher at the University of Sheffield, published an article in Salon entitled: “Philosophy has a sexual harassment problem.” While there is much s...
Time to talk about Islamophobia 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
by Massimo Pigliucci There is almost no way I’m not going to get in trouble with this one, and my name isn’t even Carlos Danger! But I’ve been asked several times by readers to comment on accusations...
Moral Monster or Moral Master? 14 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
by Steve Neumann It seems to me that all philosophizing ultimately boils down to ethics, broadly conceived. We just can’t help ourselves. We’re social primates who need to know how to act and how to ...
Steven Pinker embraces scientism. Bad move, I think 12 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
by Massimo Pigliucci Steven Pinker has written a long essay in The New Republic embracing scientism. That's really too bad, because this way Pinker joins a disturbingly long list of scientists (and a...
Evolutionary psychology, Jerry Coyne, Robert Kurzban, and the so-called creationism of the mind 9 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
by Massimo Pigliucci Time to take a break from philosophy of mind and get back to evolutionary psychology. The occasion originates from a recent post by evopsych researcher Robert Kurzban, on what he...
Computation, Church-Turing, and all that jazz 6 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
by Massimo Pigliucci I recently examined (and found wanting) the so-called computational theory of mind, albeit in the context of a broader post about the difference between scientific theories and w...
Is secularism unprincipled? 2 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
by Ian Pollock The secular movement is a cause that, by and large, I support. I think a more secular society would be a better one. But I think some of the purported arguments for secularism are in o...
Foment for the Future 31 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
by Steve Neumann What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and old pieties ... The good men are in all ages those who dig the old ...
