I was once going to illustrate a children’s book based on Plato’s apology. Here are some of the illustrations I did for that.

Discourse surrounding “AI” these days often feels like a guy showing you his shovel and you say, “that’s a nice shovel” and he says “I am going to perform surgery on my mother with this shovel” and you say “Oh God please don’t that is not what a shovel is for.”

Rawlsian heterosexual who dates both genders because their own gender is hidden behind the veil of ignorance.

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

Check out my article on love and practical wisdom in @psyche.co

RIP Robert Paul Wolff Besides his books and blog, there’s an excellent series of his lectures on Kant, Marx, and Freud that were posted on YouTube several years ago. Definitely worth watching. youtu.be/35cr_whPC88?...

Very happy to see this review. It’s an excellent book by an excellent philosopher (and person)!

really honored to have reviewed Paul Katsafanas' The Philosophy of Devotion for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. It's truly one of the most intriguing books in ethics in recent years ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/phil...

Mt Fuji saying hello on the way to the station this morning. It’s nice to see a snowy top once again. This year was the longest snowless peak on record.

If you’re a philosopher and you’re ever coming through Tokyo, you should hit up tfap. We have a great group of regular attendees. #philsky (On a totally unrelated note, I’m presenting there this Friday.) tf-ap.com

From a local Facebook group, coupled with relevant statistics showing relation between vaccination and infection and death in UK.

I have a new article out on love. It’s about why we should love people for their valuable qualities and why the importance of grace is often over-estimated. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Except that we invented emojis, didn’t we? So maybe it’s a wash?

old enough to remember the breathless litigation over whether or not it was credible that the IDF may have possibly bombed 1 (one) hospital

We pulled the trigger: The editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 have informed Wiley that we are resigning en masse. We will be starting a new diamond open-access journal with @openlibhums.bsky.social, the same publisher that is now publishing 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺. #philsky #PolTheory #polisky

This week - an exciting new area of HPS! Philosophy of the Geosciences, with Aja Watkins & @miguelohn.bsky.social (with dues to @alisabokulich.bsky.social). Consider the challenges of quantifying earthquakes, comparing past & present climate conditions & measuring Earth! #hps #philsci #histsci ⚒️

“There is no “banality of evil,” and Hannah Arendt, who wrote about it in her Eichmann book, knew the enemy of mankind only from hearsay, saw him only through the glass cage.” Jean Amery At The Mind’s Limits

Two weeks ago, I found out my position at St. Norbert College had been eliminated due to budget cuts: one of 21 faculty positions (13 in the humanities) eliminated at the college so far this year. I was under tenure review, and now I'm not. I have until May, and then my contract will be done.

This news is very unfortunate. I received my BA in philosophy from SNC. A “liberal arts” education without adequate support for the humanities is shameful and goes against the very mission that SNC touts. I’m very disappointed.

Just landed on a Wikipedia page with information that was obviously incorrect and followed the citation link which directed me to ChatGPT generated news garbage. Wikipedia has long been almost impossibly resilient, but LLMs are really reallllly going to strain this resource

"What did come as a surprise to me was Raz’s choice of subject matter and the quality of his images. Black-and-white film, varying depths of light and shadow, and intricate details in the natural environment characterise his work." www.strandmagazine.co.uk/single-post/...

Had such a gorgeous walk after lunch on Friday.

An interesting contrast teaching in the US vs Japan: students in both tend toward subjectivism in ethics. But in general very strong objectivist aesthetic intuitions here vs US (very limited sample size—these are just the classes I’ve taught)

One of the coolest projects I was assigned in grad school was during a grad seminar on Spinoza’s Ethics. We had to deduce an original proposition and proof in Spinoza’s geometric style. It was much harder than I thought but really really interesting.

Words cannot tell you how happy I am that this project is finally finished. If you have a few hundred bucks, you could buy a copy. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

There’s a lot of great work on well-being, but there really needs to be more work on rational and ethical egoism. It’s such a prominent view historically, and it’s often thrown out along with psychological egoism.

Thanks to Charles Pence and Max Bautista Perpinyà for organizing a workshop on Integrating the History and Philosophy of Biodiversity at the Brussels' Natural Science Museum, last week. I had a great time presenting my work in progress on a "theory of evidence" for evidence-based conservation!

Halloween night and trick-or-treating in Yokohama’s Chinatown.