A great deal that has happened this past year has shaken and disturbed me. Much of it culminated this week…
I’ve been teaching ethics since 2006, and just about every semester I teach the problem of ethical egoism. In short,…
Tania Lambrozo recently argued that philosophy’s “tools for critical evaluation run counter to another valuable set of tools: our tools…
Churchill did warn us, “Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those…
Traveling home on the Sunday after Thanksgiving provided an interesting insight into the future of AI and autonomous vehicles. The…
The “Confederate Flag”1 should be taken down immediately, at the South Carolina capitol and on any other state grounds (in…
Two interesting posts appeared on Daily Nous this week. First, there was the depressing-but-not-surprising news that for most humanities articles…
Brian Leiter recently shared this excerpt from Harry Frankfurt’s contribution to Portraits of American Philosophy: I believe that there is,…
Last week something interesting happened in Japan. A woman fell into the gap between a train and the platform. Unlike…
Welcome to the first in a new series of posts: Unpublished Thoughts. Today, I’ll take up a significant problem in…