Fiction of Planescape: “The Plane Truth”We begin our voyage into Planescape fiction with a short but suggestive story by David “Zeb” Cook.Aug 25, 2024Aug 25, 2024
Fiction of Planescape: IntroductionIntroduction to a series on the novels and other fiction of D&D’s Planescape setting.Aug 25, 2024Aug 25, 2024
Videogames Are Not Art. But They Are Important.It’s fairly common to hear videogame scholars describe videogames as art. In fact, there are whole books and articles arguing that…Aug 11, 2024Aug 11, 2024
Emergence and Consciousness ReconsideredSo what is emergence? First of all, forget all those fancy concepts you may have heard about in connection with emergence.May 22, 20241May 22, 20241
Introduction to the “Reading Dewey’s Logic” Video SeriesTo my mind, John Dewey is the greatest philosopher the United States has produced. He is simply unmatched in terms of the range of…Jan 27, 2024Jan 27, 2024
Some Logico-Empirical Aspects of the Phrase “Could Have Acted Otherwise”Free will (and thus moral responsibility) has often been defined by the criterion that “one could have acted/done otherwise.”Dec 14, 2023Dec 14, 2023
Asserting vs. Reading: Or, Why Academic Presentations SuckI teach a conference-speaking class every year. I attend a number of academic conferences every year. I often listen to or watch recordings…Dec 11, 2023Dec 11, 2023
Is Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument about Knowledge?Frank Jackson’s “Knowledge Argument” against physicalism, also known as the “Mary’s Room Argument,” has been much discussed. Jackson first…Oct 27, 2023Oct 27, 2023
What “Self” and “Consciousness” Mean to an Old-School Pragmatist-BehavioristThe goal of this short essay is to lay out some basic pragmatist concepts for making sense of “self” and “consciousness.”Apr 10, 2023Apr 10, 2023
Are (LLM) Chatbots Conscious?Is it possible for an artificial intelligence to become really conscious? Are some AIs already conscious, as at least a few people think…Mar 7, 2023Mar 7, 2023