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Three Dimensions of Disagreement about Emotional Experience 23 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
William James's view of emotion is famous. Its most famous feature is his claim that emotional experience is entirely bodily: If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consci...
Last Janitor of the Divine 21 Aug 2013 | 02:48 am
In which the last human on Earth attempts to understand the computer into which everyone has supposedly uploaded... here. Readers familiar with John Searle's skepticism about artificial intelligence...
Do Ethics Classes Influence Students' Moral Behavior? 15 Aug 2013 | 11:44 pm
Do university ethics classes actually have any practical effect on students' moral behavior outside of a university classroom or laboratory? Basically, we have no idea. I don't believe there is a sing...
On Creative Unproductivity 14 Aug 2013 | 09:21 pm
A terrific post today on New APPS, from the always-interesting Helen De Cruz, on the value of unstructured time for academic creativity. I tell my students: Spend half your time reading what everyone...
What a Non-Effect Looks Like 7 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
(and what's wrong with the typical meta-analysis) I've been reading the literature on whether business ethics classes have any effect on student attitudes. The literature has several features that I'...
Schoenfeld and Ioannidis: Is Everything We Eat Associated with Cancer? A Systematic Cookbook Review 1 Aug 2013 | 04:18 am
Okay, I'm now officially a John Ioannidis fanboy. You might have heard of Ioannidis. In 2005 he published the notorious and elegant "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False". But what he has b...
On the Morality of Hypotenuse Walking 24 Jul 2013 | 01:42 am
As you can infer from the picture below, the groundkeepers at UC Riverside don't like it when we walk on the grass: But I want to walk on the grass! In time-honored philosophical tradition, then, I w...
Epictetus on Living One's Philosophy 23 Jul 2013 | 03:52 am
Today I was reading that grand old Stoic, Epictetus (what else is summer for?), and I was struck by this passage: Observe yourselves thus in your actions, and you will find of what sect you are. You w...
Do Women Have Different Philosophical Intuitions Than Men? 18 Jul 2013 | 10:39 pm
Very interesting critique by at the Brains blog of the original Buckwalter and Stich study on this question.
Ethics in the First Person 16 Jul 2013 | 08:54 pm
Bernard Williams begins his classic Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy with a quote from Plato: It is not a trivial question, Socrates said: what we are talking about is how one should live (Republi...
