Schwitzgebel E. The Weirdness of the World

Princeton University Press, 2024. — 377 p.Bizarreness and Dubiety
In Praise of Weirdness
Universal Bizarreness and Universal Dubiety
Peculiar Possibilities
If Materialism Is True, the United States is Probably Conscious
1% Skepticism
Kant Meets Cyberpunk
The Size of the Universe
Experimental Evidence for the Existence of an External World
Almost Everything You Do Causes Almost Everything (under Certain Not Wholly Implausible Assumptions); or, Infinite Puppetry
More Perplexities of Consciousness
Consciousness, Innocent and Wonderful
The Loose Friendship of Visual Experience and Reality
Is There Something It’s Like to Be a Garden Snail? Or, How Sparse or Abundant Is Consciousness in the Universe?
The Moral Status of Future Artificial Intelligence
Weirdness and Wonder
Appendix: Five More Objections to U.S. Consciousness
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index