I’ve just finished working on a draft of a paper with Richard Holton:
What in the World Is Weakness of Will? (PDF; draft)
Here’s the abstract:
Abstract: At least since the middle of the twentieth century, philosophers have tended to identify weakness of will with akrasia—i.e. acting, or having a disposition to [...]
I read Tamler Sommer’s new book, A Very Bad Wizard: Morality behind the Curtain, recently and really liked it. So I wrote a short review of it for Metapsychology. It’s posted here, open access and all:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5317&cn=135
I highly recommend the book, though I do complain a bit about some of its pessimistic aspects.
UPDATE: The review got [...]
Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist who ran the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, was on the Colbert Report last year. Best part:
Zimbardo: Obviously you learned well in Sunday school.
Colbert: I teach Sunday school, motherf#@ker!
I’ve posted something about the philosophical use of the phrase “just in case” over at the SoCal Phil blog.
I just set up the details for publication of an article (“Practical Interests, Relevant Alternatives, and Knowledge Attributions”) I and my fellow co-authors have coming out in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Springer, like many journals now, has an option for the authors to pay to have the article open access so it’s free [...]
I just found out that I got an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize from the American Philosophical Association for the paper I’ll be presenting at the Pacific Division Meeting! And it comes with a travel stipend!
Again I found the email in my junk/spam mail folder. It’s starting to look like that folder is not filled [...]
I just got word that my paper “What in the World Is Weakness of Will?” (latest abstract available on this page) has been accepted for presentation at a colloquium session at the next meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (APA)! The meeting takes place in San Francisco March 31 – April [...]
I’ll be presenting something for this session. Here’s the tentative program so far:
“Experimental Philosophy in the Classroom”Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy
SESSION CHAIRAlexandra BradnerDenison University
“EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES”Emily EschCollege of St. Benedict/St. John’s UniversityChris WeigelUtah Valley University
“POLLING AS PEDAGOGY: EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN A METAPHYSICS [...]
Developmental Psychologist, Alison Gopnik (who has done a lot of work that has interesting philosophical implications) was on The Colbert Report recently promoting her new book, The Philosophical Baby:
