non serviam ergo fiat lux

One of the temptations of thinking about society through the lens of physics is the illusion of control. Phase diagrams are reassuring. If y...

I’ve noticed something unsettling over the years: the same kinds of failures keep appearing in places that, on the surface, have nothing to ...

For a long time, one of the standard objections to moral realism has been that moral properties are “queer.” That’s J. L. Mackie’s word. If ...

When we argue about morality, we usually argue about rules, intentions, or outcomes. We ask whether an action follows a principle, maximizes...

The self turns out to be neither the source of morality nor its enemy, but its most sensitive instrument. In a moral geometry defined by rel...

The cultural inheritance of this elevated self has been uneven. What survived was not Emerson’s metaphysical subtlety but his swagger. Integ...

The modern problem of the self is not that it is illusory, but that it is unstable. Contemporary philosophy and psychology have done a good ...