A Weird World? Universal Bizarreness Thesis & Perplexities of Consciousness

Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Riverside. He received his B.

A. in Philosophy from Stanford and his PhD in Philosophy from U.

C. Berkeley. He blogs at The Splintered Mind and is the author of Perplexities of Consciousness (2011) and A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures (2019). He has published dozens of articles on the issue of introspection, moral psychology, the nature of belief and other attitudes; the epistemology of philosophy; ancient Chinese philosophy; philosophical issues in moral, developmental, and perceptual psychology; the metaphysics of consciousness; and the relationship between philosophy and science fiction.