I’ve been putting together a syllabus called Utopias that draws from a bunch of fields (philosophy, literature, anthropology…) to try to...

I don’t love talk of ‘smart’ or ‘high IQ’ basketball. I got to coach a youth basketball team recently, and it was awesome. For a lot of...

So here's an argument: In Utopia, our practical problems would be solved. (There'd be nothing we had to do.) But if we sat around all...

Here's a bad question: How many people should there be? Uh oh. That's renowned Oxford moral philosopher Derek Parfit, by the way. I shall...

How do you know that I have a mind? If we’ve never met, you’re engaging with text on the internet in a world with ChatGPT-4. But...

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share....

Let's talk about games. Do you know the difference between purposes and goals? The goal of a game is the target we aim at during the...