Rapid Fire

Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.

Oct 18

Pleasantly Simple Myths

“When pleasantly simple myths are discarded, the result is a mess. Endless problems need to be addressed.” —Ian Hacking, The Social...

Oct 11

Value Complacency

This week, I sat in on a graduate-level computer science class. The instructor asked under what conditions humans and AI would be...

Sep 20

Help me Rebrand!

I’m writing from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Conference in St. Louis, where I just had barbecue at a blues jam....

Aug 30

The Origin of Philosophy

This week, I cried reading a philosophy book. I can’t remember the last time that happened. In The Origin of Philosophy , Spanish...

Aug 16

How Coffees Get Scored

Do you know how coffees get scored? Here’s a sample espresso cupping form: Let’s talk survey methodology . This form is part of a...

Jul 26

Philosophy Books or Articles?

Hey! I’ve started reading more and more philosophy of science in the lead-up to my new postdoc in September. Today I wanna discuss a...

Jul 12

What Experts Don’t Know

(Now that I have a PhD, here’s a follow-up to last week’s article on the value of expert opinion.) As you become an expert in a field,...

Jul 5

Expert Opinion

My last few blogs have a bit long and technical—sorry, I’m prepping to defend my dissertation next week, so my brain’s in a weird...

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...

Mar 15

Let a thousand flowers bloom

Last week, we saw Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry square off head-to-head. (I’ll try not to get too technical, but I wanna lay out...

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