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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Ricky Mouser
Rapid Fire
Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Jun 21
DEEP DIVE: Simplicity and Complexity
Hi I’m a four-year-old child learning 8 new words every day. So help me out: What’s a chef? Uhh…a chef is someone who cooks food. Oh...
- Apr 12
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...
- Jan 5
You will be Misread
When you go to the hospital, we rarely have the resources to treat everyone as promptly and thoroughly as we’d like. So we have to make...
- Nov 24, 2023
So there’s this psychology paper I keep thinking about
It starts, like all psychology papers, with a competitor for the most boringest sentence ever: One of the essential insights from...
- Nov 17, 2023
Getting Better at Criticism
Last week, I got to hear Wycliffe Gordon play Amazing Grace live. It was awesome. And then, he pulled out his mute. No recording’s gonna...
- Nov 10, 2023
How to Read a Riot
So recently, Marcus Arvan invited me to pitch my forthcoming paper “How to Read a Riot” to a public-facing audience of about 2,000...
- 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 29, 2023
MVP mini-manifesto
I’m always fascinated by Most Valuable Player awards because I think they’re a great encapsulation of how we think about value in sports...
- Sep 8, 2023
Game Values vs. Real-Life Values
My friend Kjell and I noticed there just aren’t enough podcasts, so we decided to help. Our first episode takes an early look at some of...
- Aug 25, 2023
The Politics of Age of Empires II
I’ve been playing a lot of Stellaris lately, but as a kid, the only computer game I really played much was Age of Empires II (AoE2, as in...
- Aug 11, 2023
I got my guy!
So here’s the mind-blowing keynote for Who’s Responsible for ChatGPT? Apparently I have a very expressive face. Anyway, I’ll give you a...
- Jul 14, 2023
Twilight Imperium and Instrumental Convergence
I got to play Twilight Imperium last weekend and I was so powerful I didn’t know what to do. I like to describe Twilight Imperium as 8...
- Jun 23, 2023
Complexity versus Richness
Here’s some chess jargon: pawns aren’t pieces. Your king, queen, rooks, bishops, and knights are all pieces. But your pawns are just...
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