The Ethics of Loneliness
“I wanna go home where I belong'Cause now I'm just a lonely teenager
When I was sixteen, ran away all alone on a strayWhat can...
Imagination, the Engine of Possibility
When I was thirty, I told some coworkers about my plan to enter grad school to become a psychotherapist. We were technical writers for...
Musk’s Town Square Is Built on Sand
“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity...
Wittgenstein and the Paradoxes at the Limits of Language
This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA’s partnership with the...
Nightclubs, Surveillance, and Nietzsche: The Dance Between Power and Freedom
Imagine you are walking into a nightclub in Berlin. You have waited in line for a while, and now there are two stickers on...
How Much Freedom of Speech is Too Much? (From a Philosophy of Language Point...
On February 14, 2025, the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, accused European countries of being too restrictive in their approach to...
Science and the Public
I was awarded my Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2007. Early in my Ph.D. program, I mentioned to a more senior graduate student that I...
The Cultural Case for Saving Endangered Languages
This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA's partnership...
Life as a Flow
Two Truths Approach Each Other
What is it to be oneself? Or to live authentically? Psychoanalysis was a first, in terms of the psychological...
Private Guns and Public Safety: Making Sense of the Tension
A natural way to understand the conflict between respecting individual rights and advancing the public good is as follows: if a socially worthwhile cause...