Philosophical Disquisitions

I nearly forgot about it this year. The 9th of December 2015 was the sixth anniversary for this blog. It is interesting to see how my ...

We spend so much of our time caring about things. Thomas Nagel described the phenomenon quite nicely: [People] spend enormous quant...

Is burning a body on a funeral pyre a mark of respect for the dead? Suppose you are married and have two children with your spouse. Or...

I have written a lot about the prospects of widespread technological unemployment ; I have also written a lot about the ethics ...

In the past year, I have written several posts about Chalmers and Clark's famous extended mind thesis . This thesis takes seriousl...

I want to start with a thought experiment: Suppose the most extreme predictions regarding technological unemployment come to pass. T...

Artificial intelligence is a classic risk/reward technology. If developed safely and properly, it could be a great boon. If developed ...