GEOFF HOLTZMAN
Postdisciplinary Researcher
Guerilla Data Scientist
Engaged Teacher
Frantic Writer
WHAT?
This website is a collection of artifacts uncovered in my childish quest for truth and justice. I could tell you a story about how it all coheres, but I’m more into studying subjective post hoc narratives than I am into advertising them, so I’ll just tell you what happened. Your brain will probably come up with a coherent narrative on its own.
WHO?
After getting a PhD in Philosophy, I moved from NYC to Chicago to study how the brain produces moral beliefs. Then I moved to the middle of nowhere to learn data science and to study how framing questions certain ways can trick the brain into landing on silly moral beliefs. Then I moved a couple hours east of nowhere, kind of near Philly, and taught college students how silly our brains and beliefs can be sometimes. Then I moved back to NYC, soon learned there was a plague visiting town, and ran around some other East Coast cities doing data science on racial disparities in criminal justice and public health.
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I plan to keep studying ethics, plus how the brain contributes to (un)ethical behavior and antisocial outcomes, plus how society molds the brain, plus how powerful institutions stratify society, plus how that stratification determines whose ethics we study. Which, if you think about it, is some kind of loop or knot or Klein bottle.
For now, I’d like to mostly stick to R as my statistical programming language and English as my spoken and written language, but you never know.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Blindly accepted arrangements of glyphs
THE RACIAL DATA GAP
American Journal of Bioethics
(2022)
DO PERSONALITY EFFECTS MEAN PHILOSOPHY IS INTRINSICALLY SUBJECTIVE?
Journal of Consciousness Studies (2013)
Assorted Outlets
(2013-2022)
COURSE SYLLABI
Blueprints for structured conversations among students
MYTHS & MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE MIND
Where do mistaken psychological claims come from, why are they so commonly believed, and how can we combat them?
MINDS, MACHINES, AND MORALS
Is moral value created by, judged by, or attributable to minds? To brains? To computers?
OTHER CLASSES
If you click here, will you be taken to a longer list of courses and syllabi?
CODE LIBRARIES
You're going to GitHub if you click this. You're about to look like a real nerd.