Jul 12What 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,...
May 17Autonomy is OverratedSo now that I have a job in Bioethics, it’s time for me to figure out what Bioethics is. Unfortunately, it looks like Bioethics is a huge...
Apr 12How 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...
Mar 1I made a Video EssayTwo weeks ago, I had no idea how to use Adobe Premiere Pro. But now, I’m pretty good at Googling. Indiana University is holding a...
Oct 27, 2023We’ve confused Intrinsic & Ultimate value and it’s been a DisasterIf you’ve happened to take a course in intro ethics, you might have heard of a classic distinction between instrumental and intrinsic...
Jun 9, 2023Justice 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...
May 5, 2023"More good is better than less good"Here's a bad question: How many people should there be? Uh oh. That's renowned Oxford moral philosopher Derek Parfit, by the way. I shall...
Apr 28, 2023The Problem of Alien MindsHow do you know that I have a mind? If we’ve never met, you’re engaging with text on the internet in a world with ChatGPT-4. But...
Apr 21, 2023Puzzles and ProblemsI’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between puzzles and problems and I need your help to figure it out. Say you’re solving a...