Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Nike’s “Dream Crazier,” A new brand of Self Objectification
Editor's note: This piece is cross-posted at Engenderings, the gender studies blog of the London School of Economics. You can see their most recent...
How do we pry apart the true and compelling from the false and toxic?
When false and malicious speech roils the body politic, when racism and violence surge, the right and role of freedom of speech in society...
Beyond Comfortable and Uncomfortable
Regardless of your feelings about Nietzsche, you have to concede that his On the Genealogy of Morals was a novel and refreshing approach to...
How Do You Approach Public Philosophy?
Drawing on early childhood education, I developed a community discussion group with an emergent inquiry in order to practice autonomy and sympathy. It fostered high quality relationships between the university and the city.
Trump’s War on Fact-Finding
Transparency about errors is a strength of journalism and science, not a weakness.
On February 20, 2019, President Donald J. Trump tweeted “The New York...
The Importance of Expressing Gratitude to Colleagues and Students
Years ago I attended a colloquium where the speaker gave a talk that I found clear, insightful, and compelling. When the time came for...
The Ethical Failures Behind the Boeing Disasters
Two Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes crashed shortly after takeoff, on October 28, 2018 near Jakarta, Indonesia and March 10, 2019, near Addis Ababa,...
How John Rawls Could Have Predicted the Unhappiness of Facebook Users
According to Facebook’s creation myth, as told by Aaron Sorkin’s film The Social Network and Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires, the idea for the...
Within the Shadow of Monuments
Public debate over memorials tends to belie their complexity. We need to consider them from all angles.
An instant is sufficient to snap the chains;...
The Possible World Defense: Why Our Current Legal Thinking about Entrapment is Philosophically Suspect
I was a special agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation before making a career change to academic philosophy. During my time at the...