Newsletter: June 2026

It’s more important now than ever to be clear and deliberate about what we think is worth paying attention to. Because if we aren’t, there are others who will be more than happy to direct our attention for us.

Existentialism in Twentieth-Century Culture

Existentialism captures the popular imagination partly because it’s so much more than just philosophy.

[Reflections] I didn’t choose to write this blog post

When I try to picture what the determinist is telling me, I see myself in something like an x-ray view, a shadowy skull balanced on a skeleton, wiggling its jaw or moving about, but with the “person” absent.

[Starting Points] Do We Have Free Will?

The position that I have free will seems untenable for anyone less mighty than God. The position that I don’t have free will seems so far from being right that it isn’t even wrong.

[Reflections] On Art and Religious Experience

Saying you love art but have no interest in religion is like saying you love EDM but have no interest in dancing.

[Reflections] Some Misgivings about the 2020 PhilPapers Survey

The questions prod respondents to think about philosophy in a certain way that many people—the authors presumably included—so take for granted that they don’t even notice that there’s prodding going on.

Newsletter: July 2021

Anglophone philosophy in the last half-century has slowly pulled its head out of its own proverbial ass and it has done so in no small part thanks to the contribution of these four remarkable women.