Sep 20Help 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 1Usefully Bad AdviceI got some pretty bad advice recently regarding my dissertation. It was from a peripheral reader, who I don’t think would mind my saying...
Jun 28Devotion & MeaningI 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...
Mar 15Let a thousand flowers bloomLast 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 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...
Feb 23My 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....
Jan 19Group AgentsSee if any of these sentences strike you as weird: The Thunder won last night. The Thunder believed they were better than the white-hot...
Dec 22, 2023Arguments are Powerful ToolsArguments are powerful tools for seeing how commitments hang together. Take the classic reductio ad absurdum, where I try to show that my...
Nov 24, 2023So there’s this psychology paper I keep thinking aboutIt starts, like all psychology papers, with a competitor for the most boringest sentence ever: One of the essential insights from...