A brief announcement that this fall, when I return to Morehouse, it will be as a visiting assistant professor of philosophy! I am beyond excited to be a full-time member of Morehouse’s fantastic faculty and am greatly looking forward to the upper-level courses I’ll be teaching for the first time this fall. Thanks so much … More New Position at Morehouse
I get around to reading academic books I’m interested in much more slowly these days than I used to, which is why I’ve only just finished up C. Thi Nguyen’s Games: Agency as Art, which came out back in 2020. Nguyen’s book is expectedly excellent; I assign his “Trust as an Unquestioning Attitude” to my … More Some Thoughts on Games: Agency as Art by C. Thi Nguyen
Early last month (December 2023), Eric and I were honored to receive the City of Decatur’s 2023 Hometown Hero award for our work with Mind Bubble. Here is the city’s official announcement, and here is Decaturish’s write-up of the award ceremony. I have to admit, I never imagined I’d be honored at the same event … More 2023 Hometown Heroes
Two major events in 2015 completely changed my life. One, in December of that year, was the birth of my daughter Talia. But in May of 2015, Tally’s sibling, Mind Bubble, was born. My friend Eric and I had spent months complaining about the lack of volunteer tutor opportunities in Atlanta that matched the experiences … More 8 Years of Mind Bubble
My fifth and latest in entry in the free online encyclopedia 1000-Word Philosophy is on time’s arrow. This is a particularly exciting entry for me as it concerns the topic of my dissertation (chunks of which were published here and here). Hopefully non-experts find it an accessible introduction to a topic I still find fascinating, … More New “Time’s Arrow” Entry in 1KWP
I’m excited to kick off 2023 right and announce that my (very) short story “LEM” is out in the January/February 2023 edition of Analog magazine! Analog is one of my favorite venues for short story publication, and I’m thrilled they liked this one enough to include it in their latest issue. I wrote “LEM” early … More “LEM” in Analog, January/February 2023
Once again I’ve got an exciting new 1,000-Word Philosophy entry to announce, this one the second in my “Philosophy of Space and Time” series. The philosophy of space is fascinating, and hopefully what I’ve written helps make what can be an extremely daunting subject more accessible to those encountering it for the first time. Thanks, … More Philosophy of Space 1KWP Entry
My latest 1000-Word Philosophy entry on the reality of the past and future is now live! I was excited in this entry to return to a topic I published my very first paper on, almost a decade and a half ago. I’m also to see that it’s already been translated into Turkish, making it (I … More New 1KWP Entry on Philosophy of Time
To keep up on state politics in Georgia, I often tune in to my local NPR station’s politics podcast “Political Breakfast”. For two consecutive weeks (5/28/21 and 6/4/21), the show waded into the national debate over critical race theory (CRT), made salient to Georgia politics by our governor’s recent actions, and the show’s Republican communications … More “The Greatest Country in the World”
Thanks to a colleague’s recent social media post, I found John Danaher’s blog post “The Trouble with Teaching: Is Teaching a Meaningful Job?”. It presents several well-reasoned arguments for thinking that teaching in higher education isn’t the kind of meaningful occupation that many of us who teach in higher ed maybe once thought it was … More Is Teaching a Meaningful Job?
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