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?
I’ve just received my January/February 2021 copy of Analog in the mail and am excited to report that it contains my short story “The Tale of Anise and Basil”! I had a great experience publishing one of my previous pieces in Analog, and I’m so happy that they liked “The Tale of Anise and Basil” … More New Short Story in Analog!
I’m excited to announce that another of my short stories has been published, this time in the December 2020 issue of the magazine After Dinner Conversation. My story, “And Joy shall overtake us as a flood”, is my longest fiction publication to date. It was written back in 2015, shortly before my daughter was born, … More New Story in After Dinner Conversation
Back when I wrote my article on the Sleeping Beauty problem for 1000-Word Philosophy, I had to cut a chunk of the article that dealt with Dutch Book arguments against thirders because I was running up against that hard 1,000-word limit. Unlike most scraps of my writing I have had to cut from a longer … More Dutch Book Arguments on 1000-Word Philosophy
Mind Bubble has seriously grown since the last time I shared an update on this website back in 2018; in our last semester of 2019, we broke attendance records for both our Sunday and Wednesday tutoring sessions, and our workshops in 2020 have both been so highly in demand that we’ve had to waitlist students! … More Mind Bubble in 2020
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