The Conceivability of Shombies

I just noticed that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Zombies was recently updated (authored by Robert Kirk, who’s book I reviewed for phil. psych). I was pleased to see that my JCS paper was mentioned in the “anti-zombie argument for physicalism” section. But Kirk cites my paper as arguing that “we should reject [...]

You Might Be a Philosopher

One of the lamer ideas I have ever had was to take classic jokes and try to compose philosophical analogs of them. This resulted in a number of yo mama jokes that I wrote back in 2007, which I reproduce below. Yo mama is so fat, she is the truth-maker for ‘your mama is fat’ [...]