The Splintered Mind
The Cognitive Advantages of Being of Two Minds, or Twelve, or Twelve Hundred
AI Slop and Evidence about Evidence: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose
New Book in Draft! Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights
Bare Functionalism Versus Digital Computational Functionalism
New in Draft: Strange Intelligence: Moral Puzzles of Unhumanlike AI
Do Computers Have the Wrong "Substrate" for Consciousness? Two Flavors of Biological Naturalism
Online Conferences Should be Better than In-Person Conferences, Not Worse
Herbie: A Near-Future Debatably Conscious AI Person
New Paper in Draft: Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness (with Jeremy Pober)
AI and the Degradation of the Human Capacity for Friendship (guest post by Grace Helton)
ChatGPT Is Not Your Friend (guest post by Grace Helton)
Superhuman Moral Standing
Twenty Years of The Splintered Mind
Do Your Thing
Kim Stanley Robinson on the Value of Science Fiction
AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview, forthcoming with Cambridge
So You're on the "Waiting List" for a Philosophy PhD Program
A Model of Disunified Human Experience
Backup and Death for Humanlike AI
Age and Fame in Philosophy
Philosophy Should Be Among the Most Diverse Disciplines, Not the Least
Discussion Arcs for Topics and Philosophers
Disunity and Indeterminacy in Artificial Consciousness (and Maybe in Human Consciousness Too)
The Intrinsic Value of Diversity
Artificial Intelligence as Strange Intelligence: Against Linear Models of Intelligence (New Paper in Draft)
Does Global Workspace Theory Solve the Question of AI Consciousness?
Is Signal Strength a Confound in Consciousness Research?
AI Mimics and AI Children
Humble Superintelligence
Writings of 2025
"Severance", "The Substance", and Our Increasingly Splintered Selves
How Much Should We Give a Joymachine?
Debatable AI Persons: No Rights, Full Rights, Animal-Like Rights, Credence-Weighted Rights, or Patchy Rights?
Can We Introspectively Test the Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness?
Language Models Don't Accurately Describe How They Would Answer If Questions Were Posed in a Different Order (Favorite Animal Edition)
Four Aspects of Harmony
Representational Realism and the Problem of Tacit Belief
We Are God's Equals in Intrinsic Moral Value
Debatable Persons in a Voluntary Polis
Letting Pass
Two Dimensionalism about Other Minds, and Its Implications for Brain Organoids and Robots
Eek! The Plummeting Philosophy Major in the U.S.
Is AI Conscious? A Primer on the Myths and Confusions Driving the Debate
New Book in Draft: AI and Consciousness
Why Philosophy?
Early Career Hugo Nominations -- Yes, They Definitely Happen
The Searle Chair
DigiDan's "Mistake": Fidelity vs Novelty in Digital Replicas
The Social Semi-Solution to the Question of AI Consciousness
Women Earned 37% of U.S. Philosophy Doctorates in 2024, Up from 28% Ten Years Ago
Are Weird Aliens Conscious? Three Arguments (Two of Which Fail)
Sacrificing Humans for Insects and AI: A Critical Review
Defining "Artificial Intelligence"
Minimal Autopoiesis in an AI System
Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2025
Evolutionary Considerations Against a Plastic Utopia
The Argument from Existential Debt
Yayflies and Rebugnant Conclusions
The Emotional Alignment Design Policy
Three Epistemic Problems for Any Universal Theory of Consciousness
The Conceptual and Methodological Challenges of Developing a Moralometer
Does the Arc of History Bend Toward Justice? Outline of an Empirical Test
Types and Degrees of Turing Indistinguishability; Thinking and Consciousness
New Paper in Draft: Against Designing "Safe" and "Aligned" AI Persons (Even If They're Happy)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philosophy: Good Practices Guide
Ten Purportedly Essential Features of Consciousness
The Awesomeness of Bad Art
Everything Is Sandcastles
When Is a Theory Superficial?
People with Unusual, Minority, Culturally Atypical, or Historically Underrepresented Experiences and Worldviews Should be Overrepresented in Philosophy, Rather than Underrepresented