Eric Schwitzgebel
Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, US
Eric Schwitzgebel is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He blogs at The Splintered Mind and is the author of Perplexities of Consciousness (2011), A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures (2019) and The Weirdness of the World (2024).
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Ethics
How Mengzi came up with something better than the Golden Rule
Eric Schwitzgebel
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Future of technology
AIs should have the same ethical protections as animals
John Basl & Eric Schwitzgebel
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Ethics
We have greater moral obligations to robots than to humans
Eric Schwitzgebel
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Ethics
Cheeseburger ethics
Are professional ethicists good people? According to our research, not especially. So what is the point of learning ethics?
Eric Schwitzgebel
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Ethics
A theory of jerks
Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around? Then maybe you’re the one with the jerkitude
Eric Schwitzgebel