Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 2026
Since 2014, I’ve compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent award nominations and “best of” placements over the previous ten years.
The Splintered Mind
reflections on the philosophy of psychology, broadly construed
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AI and Consciousness
AI and Consciousness, hot off the press at Cambridge University Press and free online until Aug 26!
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The Cognitive Advantages of Being of Two Minds, or Twelve, or Twelve Hundred
Superintelligent AI might be a swirl of many contradictory, competing processes rather than hyper-consistent and hyper-rational
AI Slop and Evidence about Evidence: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose
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Bare Functionalism Versus Digital Computational Functionalism
In philosophy of mind, people sometimes say things like the following: If functionalism is true about consciousness, then digital computers could be conscious; all it requires is that they instantiate the right programs.
New in Draft: Strange Intelligence: Moral Puzzles of Unhumanlike AI
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Do Computers Have the Wrong "Substrate" for Consciousness? Two Flavors of Biological Naturalism
Biological naturalists (e.g., Godfrey-Smith, Block, Searle, Seth) suggest that computers aren’t made of the right kind of stuff to be conscious.