Back in February, the Morehouse Philosophy and Religion Department hosted our first-ever Morehouse-Atlanta University Center Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (MAUC-UP for short). I am so proud of the students who made this event amazing, from those who presented their papers, to those who gave comments, to those attendees who asked probing questions during the Q&A. The … More MAUC-UP 2026 Recap
Happy New Year! I’m late in posting this (it went up on 12/20 of last year), but my latest article, on causation, is up at 1,000-Word Philosophy. This one was a lot of fun to write, though I am sad that the word count required a change to my original running example; the original was … More “Causation” in 1kwp
As we close out 2025, I’m excited to announce a new short story publication: my story “Career Transmutation” has just been published online at 4-Star Stories! This story has been looking for a home for a very long time – I wrote its first draft in one sitting in a coffee shop back in March … More “Career Transmutation” in 4-Star Stories
A few weeks ago, I attended a symposium on open educational resources (OER) at the Woodruff AUC Library (many thanks to friend and librarian Brad Ost for the invitation!). I’m a big supporter of OER (see my work with 1,000-Word Philosophy), so when Brad approached me about adding something that might be generally useful to … More New Logic OER Available
Some of you may know that I’m in the early stages of a philosophy project on dehumanization. As part of my journey into this topic and its literature, I’ve written an article on dehumanization for 1,000-Word Philosophy, which has just been published here. Thanks very much to Morehouse HSSMA Dean Regine Jackson, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, … More Dehumanization for 1kwp
Back in early July, I had the opportunity to run a workshop for children (mostly late elementary school-aged to early high school-aged) at my local library in Decatur, Ga. Below are my PowerPoint presentation from the workshop along with an action shot, taken by my colleague in philosophy at Morehouse, Nathan Nobis. Thanks to the … More Wonder, Reason, and Judge at the Decatur Library
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
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