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Eric Schwitzgebel is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research spans several domains within neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive and social aspects as well as intersections with philosophy and artificial intelligence.

Their main field of study is Neuroscience, supported by a substantial number of publications. Subfields of specialization include Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Schwitzgebel's work covers a range of topics, particularly:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Schwitzgebel include:

  • "Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness" (2023, arXiv [Cornell University])
  • "Do ethics classes influence student behavior? Case study: Teaching the ethics of eating meat" (2020, Cognition)
  • "Creating a large language model of a philosopher" (2023, Mind & Language)
  • "Borderline consciousness, when it's neither determinately true nor determinately false that experience is present" (2023, Philosophical Studies)
  • "Is There Something it's Like to be a Garden Snail" (2020, Philosophical Topics)

Frequent co-authors contributing to their research include Anna Strasser, Bradford Cokelet, Peter Singer, David Schwitzgebel, and Seth Margolis.

Schwitzgebel has published multiple books with Princeton University Press, including two editions of The Weirdness of the World in 2024.

The venues where Schwitzgebel's work is often published feature prominently among their academic contributions. These include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Mind & Language
  • Philosophical Psychology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cognition

Best Publications

  • The Unreliability of Naive Introspection

    Eric Schwitzgebel

  • A Phenomenal, Dispositional Account of Belief

    Eric Schwitzgebel

  • Expertise in Moral Reasoning? Order Effects on Moral Judgment in Professional Philosophers and Non-Philosophers

    Eric Schwitzgebel;Fiery Cushman

  • ACTING CONTRARY TO OUR PROFESSED BELIEFS OR THE GULF BETWEEN OCCURRENT JUDGMENT AND DISPOSITIONAL BELIEF

    Eric Schwitzgebel

  • Perplexities of Consciousness

    Eric Schwitzgebel

  • Describing Inner Experience?: Proponent Meets Skeptic

    Russell T. Hurlburt;Eric Schwitzgebel

  • Philosophers’ biased judgments persist despite training, expertise and reflection

    Eric Schwitzgebel;Fiery Cushman

  • Knowing That P without Believing That P

    Blake Myers-Schulz;Eric Schwitzgebel

  • In-between believing

    Eric Schwitzgebel

  • How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Visual Imagery

    Eric Schwitzgebel

  • A New Measure of Life Satisfaction: The Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale.

    Seth Margolis;Eric Schwitzgebel;Daniel J Ozer;Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • The moral behavior of ethics professors: Relationships among self-reported behavior, expressed normative attitude, and directly observed behavior

    Eric Schwitzgebel;Joshua Rust

  • A Dispositional Approach to Attitudes: Thinking Outside of the Belief Box

    Eric Schwitzgebel

  • If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious

    Eric Schwitzgebel

  • A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences

    Eric Schwitzgebel;Mara Garza

  • The Moral Behaviour of Ethicists: Peer Opinion

    Eric Schwitzgebel;Joshua Rust

  • Do ethicists steal more books

    Eric Schwitzgebel

  • Whose concepts are they, anyway? The role of philosophical intuition in empirical psychology

    Alison Gopnik;Eric Schwitzgebel

  • Do You Have Constant Tactile Experience of Your Feet in Your Shoes? Or Is Experience Limited to What's in Attention?

    Eric Schwitzgebel

  • Do ethics classes influence student behavior? Case study: Teaching the ethics of eating meat.

    Eric Schwitzgebel;Bradford Cokelet;Peter Singer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy I. M. Carpendale
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale Simon Fraser University
Maureen A. Callanan
Maureen A. Callanan University of California, Santa Cruz
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Annette Karmiloff-Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Fiery Cushman
Fiery Cushman Harvard University
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky University of California, Riverside
Mark A. Sabbagh
Mark A. Sabbagh Queen's University
Mary Gauvain
Mary Gauvain University of California, Riverside
Peter A. Singer
Peter A. Singer National University of Singapore
Yifeng Zhou
Yifeng Zhou University of Science and Technology of China
Cristina Bicchieri
Cristina Bicchieri University of Pennsylvania

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