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Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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There is no Shallow End of the Pool
Later this month, I’ll be teaching my dissertation chapter on grief  to a grad seminar of young bioethicists as part of a class session...
Nov 1, 2024


Quick Hitter: How do you understand Confusion?
There are lots  of buzzwords in the AI space—fairness, transparency, safety, bias, privacy, trustworthiness, I could go on and on. And...
Oct 4, 2024


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....
Sep 20, 2024


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 30, 2024


Usefully Bad Advice
I got some pretty bad advice recently regarding my dissertation. It was from a peripheral reader, who I don’t think would mind my saying...
Aug 1, 2024


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 12, 2024


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...
Jul 5, 2024


Devotion & Meaning
I wanted to let you behind the curtain to see how philosophical papers are born, so Kjell and I pulled up a Call for Papers on Meaning...
Jun 28, 2024


Jazz bends Music like a Gaudà Building
I recently got to listen to a jazz concert on the roof of Antoni GaudÃ’s magnificent La Pedrera. Meet the building that teaches you how...
May 24, 2024


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 26, 2024


How to Tell Better Narratives of Character (ft. Canceling)
Our discourse around canceling seems a bit too simplistic. But how can we do better? We’ve all done bad things we wish we could take...
Apr 12, 2024


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...
Mar 15, 2024


I got a Job
First off, if you’re on the committee of a university I’ve applied to, I’m very sorry. It took me thirty minutes to figure out how to...
Mar 8, 2024


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.)...
Feb 2, 2024


Group Agents
See if any of these sentences strike you as weird: The Thunder won last night. The Thunder believed they were better than the white-hot...
Jan 19, 2024
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