Eric Schwitzgebel
eschwitz at domain- ucr.edu
Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1997)
Areas
of interest: philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, moral psychology,
classical Chinese philosophy,
epistemology, metaphilosophy, metaphysics,
science
fiction....
My Blog:
is here .
A Broad-Ranging Interview on My Work:
is here .
Books:
Perplexities of Consciousness , MIT Press
(2011).
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at Amazon and
here at Barnes & Noble. For an abstract and access to chapter
drafts from 2009 see here .
Philosophical Studies is publishing a symposium on the book, consisting
of my
Precis , commentaries by
Uriah Kriegel , by
Declan Smithies , and by
Maja Spener , and my
reply .
Describing Inner
Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic, with Russell T. Hurlburt, MIT Press (2007).
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at Amazon and
here at Barnes & Noble. For an abstract and access to chapter
drafts from 2006 see here .
Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted an issue to ten
commentaries on this book, with 100 pages of replies by Russ and me: See here .
Essays Sorted by Theme:
Belief:
"The
Pragmatic Metaphysics of Belief " (in draft).
"The
Intrinsic Value of Self-Knowledge " (in draft).
"A
Dispositional Approach to Attitudes: Thinking Outside of the Belief Box "
(2013), in Nikolaj Nottelmann (ed.), Belief (Palgrave).
(with Blake Myers-Schulz) "Knowing
That P Without Believing That P ", (2013), Nous, 47, 371-384.
"Mad
Belief? " (2012), NeuroEthics, 5, 13-17. [A commentary on Lisa
Bortolotti, Delusions
and Other Irrational Beliefs (2010).]
"Knowing
Your Own Beliefs " (2011), Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 35,
supplement 41-62.
"Acting
Contrary to Our Professed Beliefs, or the Gulf Between Occurrent Judgment and
Dispositional Belief " (2010), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 91,
531-553.
"Belief "
(2006/2010/2014), entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
"A Phenomenal,
Dispositional Account of Belief " (2002), Nous, 36, 249-275. [This
is my central essay on the topic.]
"Gradual
Belief Change in Children " (1999),
Human Development, 42, 283-296.
Our Poor Knowledge of Our Own Conscious Experience:
"Phenomenal
Consciousness, Defined and Defended as Innocently as I Can Manage "
(2016), Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23, 11-12,
224-235. (This is a commentary on Keith Frankish, "Illusionism as a Theory of
Consciousness").
"If
Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious " (2015), Philosophical Studies,
172, 1697-1721.
"Introspection,
What? " (2012) in Declan Smithies and Daniel Stoljar (eds.), Introspection
and Consciousness (Oxford: Oxford).
"Self-Ignorance "
(2012) in JeeLoo Liu and John Perry (eds.), Consciousness and the Self
(Cambridge: Cambridge).
"Introspection "
(2010), entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
"The
Unreliability of Naive Introspection " (2008), Philosophical
Review, 117, 245-273. [This is my central essay on the topic.]
"Descartes Inverted" (2007), from Describing
Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic (with Russell T. Hurlburt).
"Do
You Have Constant Tactile Experience of Your Feet in Your Shoes? Or Is
Experience Limited to What's in Attention? " (2007), Journal
of Consciousness Studies , 14, no. 3, 5-35.
"Do
Things Look Flat? " (2006), Philosophy &
Phenomenological Research , 72, 589-599.
"Introspective
Training Apprehensively Defended: Reflections on Titchener's Lab Manual " (2004), Journal of
Consciousness Studies , 11, no. 7-8, 58-76..
"Why Did
We Think We Dreamed in Black and White? " (2002), Studies in
History and Philosophy of Science, 33, 649-660.
"How Well Do
We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Visual Imagery "
(2002), Journal of Consciousness Studies , 9, no. 5-6, 35-53.
(with Michael S. Gordon) "How
Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation "
(2000), Philosophical Topics , 28, 235-246.
The Relationship Between Moral Reflection and Moral Behavior:
"Aiming
for Moral Mediocrity " (in draft).
(with Jonathan Ellis) "Rationalization
in Moral and Philosophical Thought " (2017), Moral
Inferences , ed. J.-F. Bonnefon and B. Tremoliere (Psychology Press).
(with Joshua Rust) "The
Moral Behavior of Ethicists " (2016), Companion to
Experimental Philosophy , ed. J. Sytsma and W. Buckwalter
(Wiley-Blackwell).
(with Fiery Cushman) "Philosophers'
Biased Judgments Persist Despite Training, Expertise and Reflection "
(2015), Cognition, 141, 127-137.
"Cheeseburger
Ethics: Are Professional Ethicists Good People? " (2015), Aeon Magazine (July 14 featured article).
"The
Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Role of the Philosopher "
(2014), Experimental Ethics , ed. H. Rusch, M. Uhl, and C.
Luetge (Palgrave).
(with Joshua Rust) "The
Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Power of Reason " (2014),
Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology .
"A
Theory of Jerks " (2014), Aeon Magazine (June 4 featured article).
(with Joshua Rust) "The Moral Behavior of Ethics
Professors: Relationships Among Self-Reported Behavior, Expressed Normative
Attitude, and Directly Observed Behavior " (2014), Philosophical
Psychology, 27, 293-327.
"Do
Ethics Classes Influence Student Behavior? ", (2013 manuscript).
"Are
Ethicists Any More Likely to Pay Their Registration Fees at Professional
Meetings? " (2013), Economics & Philosophy, 29, 371-380.
(with Joshua Rust) "Ethicists'
and Non-Ethicists' Responsiveness to Student Emails: Relationships among
Expressed Normative Attitude, Self-Described Behavior, and Experimentally
Observed Behavior " (2013), Metaphilosophy, 44, 350-371.
(with Fiery Cushman) "Expertise
in Moral Reasoning? Order Effects on Moral Judgment in Professional
Philosophers and Non-Philosophers " (2012), Mind &
Language, 27, 135-153.
(with Joshua Rust, Linus Huang, Alan Moore, and Justin Coates), "Ethicists'
Courtesy at Philosophy Conferences " (2012), Philosophical
Psychology, 35, 331-340.
(with Joshua Rust) "Do
Ethicists and Political Philosophers Vote More Often Than Other Professors? "
(2010) Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1, 189-199.
(with Joshua Rust) "The
Moral Behavior of Ethicists: Peer Opinion " (2009) Mind, 118, 1043-1059.
"Do
Ethicists Steal More Books? " (2009) Philosophical
Psychology, 22, 711-725.
"Human
Nature and Moral Education in Mencius, Xunzi, Hobbes, and Rousseau "
(2007) History of Philosophy Quarterly, 24, 147-168.
Foundational Issues in Cognitive Development:
(with Victoria McGeer) "Disorder
in the Representational Warehouse " (2006), Child Development, 77 ,
1557-1562. [This is a commentary on an essay by Jacqueline Woolley, but it
is written so
as to be comprehensible without knowledge of Woolley's paper.]
"Gradual
Belief Change in Children " (1999),
Human Development, 42, 283-296. [Also listed under
"Belief" above.]
"A Difficulty
for Simulation Theory Due to the Close Connection of Pretense and Action
in Early Childhood " (2000, not for print publication)
"Children's
Theories and the Drive to Explain " (1999), Science & Education,
8, 457-488.
"Representation
and Desire: A Philosophical Error with Consequences for Theory-of-Mind
Research " (1999), Philosophical Psychology, 12, 157-180.
"Difficulties
in Davidson's Arguments Against Belief Without Language " (1997, not for
print publication)
Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics, Skepticism, and Cosmology:
"Kant
Meets Cyberpunk " (in draft).
"1%
Skepticism " (2017), Nous, 51, 271-290.
"Phenomenal
Consciousness, Defined and Defended as Innocently as I Can Manage "
(2016), Journal
of Consciousness Studies, 23, 11-12, 224-235. (This is a
commentary on Keith Frankish, "Illusionism as a Theory of
Consciousness"). [Also listed under "Our Poor Knowledge of Our Own
Conscious Experience" above]
(with Alan T. Moore) "Experimental
Evidence for the Existence of an External World " (2015) Journal
of the American Philosophical Association, 1, 564-582..
"If
Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious " (2015), Philosophical Studies,
172, 1697-1721.
"The
Crazyist Metaphysics of Mind " (2014), Australasian Journal of
Philosophy , 92, 665-682.
"The
Problem of Known Illusion and the Resemblance of Experience to Reality "
(2014), Philosophy of Science, 81, 954-960.
(with Alison Gopnik) "Whose
Concepts Are They, Anyway? The Role of Philosophical Intuition in
Empirical Psychology " (1998), in M.R. DePaul and W. Ramsey (eds.),
Rethinking
Intuition (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield).
"Zhuangzi's Attitude
Toward Language and His Skepticism " (1996), in P. Kjellberg and P.J.
Ivanhoe (eds.),
Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the
Zhuangzi (SUNY Press).
Chinese Philosophy:
"The
Unskilled Zhuangzi: Big and Useless and Not So Good at Catching Rats ",
in draft.
"Death,
Self, and Oneness in the Incomprehensible Zhuangzi " (forthcoming) in P.J. Ivanhoe, O. Flanagan, R. Harrison, H.
Sarkissian, and E. Schwitzgebel, eds., Oneness
in Philosophy, Religion, and Psychology (Columbia University Press).
"Human
Nature and Moral Development in Mencius, Xunzi, Hobbes, and Rousseau "
(2007) History of Philosophy Quarterly, 24, 147-168. [Also
listed under "The Relationship Between Moral Reflection and Moral
Behavior" above.]
"Why
Don't We Know Our Chinese Philosophy? " (2001), APA Newsletter on the
Status of Asian & Asian-American Philosophers & Philosophies, 1,
26-27.
"Zhuangzi's Attitude
Toward Language and His Skepticism " (1996), in P. Kjellberg and P.J.
Ivanhoe (eds.),
Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the
Zhuangzi (SUNY Press). [Also listed under "Metaphilosophy"
above.]
Other:
(with Alan Tonnies Moore) "The
Experience of Reading " (forthcoming), Consciousness and
Cognition .
(with Seth Margolis, Daniel J. Ozer, and Sonja Lyubomirsky "A
New Measure of Life Satisfaction: The Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale "
(forthcoming), Journal of Personality Assessment.
(with Mara Garza) "Designing
AI with Rights, Consciousness, Self-Respect, and Freedom " (in
draft).
(with Linus Ta-Lun Huang, Andrew Jenkins, and Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera)
"The
Insularity of Anglophone Philosophy: Quantitative Analyses "
(forthcoming), Philosophical Papers.
(with Carolyn Dicey Jennings) "Women
in Philosophy: Quantitative Analyses of Specialization, Prevalence,
Visibility, and Generational Change " (2017), Public
Affairs Quarterly 31, 83-105.
(with Mara Garza) "A
Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences " (2015), Midwest
Studies in Philosophy, 39, 98-119.
(with Josh Dever) "The
Two Envelope Paradox and Using
Variables Within the Expectation Formula " (2008), Sorites, 20,
135-140 -- also see
our Simple
Explanation of the Two Envelope Paradox .
Dissertation:
Philosophical Fiction:
"Little
/^^^\&- " (2017), Clarkesworld, issue #132.
"THE TURING
MACHINES OF BABEL " (2017), Apex Magazine, issue #98.
"Fish
Dance " (2016), Clarkesworld , issue #118.
"The
Dauphin's Metaphysics " (2015), Unlikely Story , issue
#12. (Locus recommended by Lois Tilton.)
translated into Hungarian: Galakika , issue 316 (2016).
translated in Chinese by Fan Yilun, Science
Fiction World, issue 367 (2016).
"Momentary
Sage " (2015), The Dark , issue #8, 38-43.
"Out
of the Jar " (2015), Magazine of Fantasy & Science
Fiction, 128, 118-128.
"Philosophical
Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction: Recommendations from 41 Philosophers "
(2015)
abbreviated version as "Recommended Viewing" (2015), The
Philosophers' Magazine , issue #71, 101-106. abbreviated version in Susan Schneider, ed., Science
Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd ed. (2016, Wiley).
"The
Tyrant's Headache " (2015), Sci Phi Journal , issue #3, 78-83.
"What
Kelp Remembers " (2014), Weird Tales , Flashes of Weirdness
(April 14).
(with R. Scott Bakker) "Reinstalling Eden "
(2013), Nature, 503 , 562.
podcast in StarShipSofa (2015), #392.
reprint in Susan Schneider, ed., Science
Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd ed. (2016, Wiley), 19-21.
Annual
ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines , based on awards
nominations and appearance on prominent "best of" lists.
Selected Op-Eds:
"Does
It Matter If the Passover Story Is Literally True? " -- Los Angeles
Times, Apr. 9, 2017.
"Like
the Oscars, #PhilosophySoWhite " (with Myisha Cherry) -- Los
Angeles Times , Mar. 6, 2016.
"Will
Your Driverless Car Kill You So That Others May Live? " -- Los
Angeles Times , Dec. 6, 2015.
"We
Have Greater Moral Obligations to Robots Than to Humans " -- Aeon
Opinions , Nov. 12, 2015.
"What's
Missing in College Philosophy Classes? Chinese Philosophers " -- Los
Angeles Times , Sep. 13, 2015.
"Philosophy
Via Facebook? Why Not? " -- Los Angeles Times , Jul. 17, 2015.
Miscellaneous Thoughts:
Recent Courses:
Lower Division:
Evil (Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Winter 2013, Spring 2012, Fall
2010)
Upper Division:
Philosophy of Science (Spring 2013, Spring 2011)
Philosophy of Mind (Winter 2017, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010)
Classical Chinese Philosophy (Spring 2014)
Senior Seminar: Proofs of the External World
(Winter 2011)
Graduate Seminars:
Red-Hot Philosophy of Mind (Winter 2018)
Monster Rights, Robot Rights, Alien Rights (Spring 2016)
Radical Skepticism (Winter 2014)
What Is the Use of Ethics? (Fall 2012)
The Psychology of Metaphysics (Winter 2012)
Dissertations completed under my direction:
Alan T. Moore (2016): The Experience of Reading.
Nick Baiamonte (2008): On The Possibility of Being Virtuous in a Wicked
World: The Nature, Character, and Power of Genuine
Moral Reflection.
Joshua Rust (2005): John Searle's Ideal Type: Max Weber and the Construction
of Social Reality.
Ted M. Preston (2005): Bridging the Gap Between Normative Beliefs and
Actions.
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