SNEAK PEEK: Board Game Ethics
(Stick around for a sneak peek at my latest manifesto!) It’s been a busy week onboarding at Hopkins and continuing to get settled in...
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Rapid Fire
Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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Jul 19
Want a copy of my Dissertation?
I’ve spent most of this week driving 1500 miles and moving into my new place in Baltimore, so this is just a quick update. I’ve started...
Apr 26
Debate Mode
philosophy is not just about questions, concepts, and arguments, but is also about idioms —Raymond Geuss I’ve been meaning to write some...
Apr 19
What makes You think you’re so Special? (a reluctant defense of X-Risk)
I spent this past week at The Midwest Ethics Symposium on AI presenting my research and meeting lots of great folks from academia and...
Feb 23
My Dissertation, pt. 3
(Links to Part 1 and Part 2) When you write a dissertation about assholes, you tend to encounter a handful of criticisms over and over....
Feb 2
My Dissertation, pt. 2
(Here’s part one btw.) We see this problem time and time again in the history of Western philosophy: We live in a society. (Surprise.)...
Dec 8, 2023
My Dissertation: pt. 1
For the past month, I’ve been running an experiment. I started going to two therapists so we can form a consensus. Weirdly, this is kind...
Oct 27, 2023
We’ve confused Intrinsic & Ultimate value and it’s been a Disaster
If you’ve happened to take a course in intro ethics, you might have heard of a classic distinction between instrumental and intrinsic...
Oct 13, 2023
Someone could get it Wrong
I had a really interesting conversation about art criticism this week. So here we go: What does it mean to be great at jazz? Look, I know...
Sep 22, 2023
On being taken Seriously
Now that I’m back in Bloomington for a while, everyone has a ton of advice on how to present myself on the academic job market so that...
Sep 1, 2023
A sneak peek of our upcoming APA Talk
It all started with a question: What the hell is Andrew Tate doing? Hello @GretaThunberg I have 33 cars. My Bugatti has a w16 8.0L quad...
Jun 30, 2023
I had to write a research statement about what I’m working on. Here’s my first draft.
Let me know what you think! I'm still figuring out how to summarize my research program and instill confidence I’ll be a “productive”...
Jun 9, 2023
Justice for Assholes (and why we need Utopias)
I’ve been putting together a syllabus called Utopias that draws from a bunch of fields (philosophy, literature, anthropology…) to try to...
Apr 7, 2023
Here's my dissertation in 9 minutes
From a comedic storytelling showcase at Jackalope Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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