Summary of The Weirdness of the World

Just what you wanted! And just in time for National Cherry Popsicle Day! A summary of my 2024 book, The Weirdness of the World, by the author himself. You probably haven't had time to read the whole thing (I don't blame you). So here's a synthesis of what I see as the most central ideas.(I wrote it for a book symposium forthcoming in Journal of Consciousness Studies with critiques by Edouard Machery, Luke Roelofs, Susan Schneider, and a reply by me [with Jacob Barandes, co-author of one of the chapters that Machery targeted in his critique]. I'll share links to the critiques when they're available, along with the final manuscript of my reply.)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Bizarreness and Dubiety. On fundamental issues of consciousness and cosmology, something both bizarre and dubious must be true, and we’re in no good position to know which of the various bizarre and dubious possibilities in fact holds. That is the guiding idea…