Rapid Fire

Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.

Oct 11

Value Complacency

This week, I sat in on a graduate-level computer science class. The instructor asked under what conditions humans and AI would be...

Oct 4

Quick Hitter: How do you understand Confusion?

There are lots of buzzwords in the AI space—fairness, transparency, safety, bias, privacy, trustworthiness, I could go on and on. And...

Aug 1

Usefully Bad Advice

I got some pretty bad advice recently regarding my dissertation. It was from a peripheral reader, who I don’t think would mind my saying...

Jul 26

Philosophy Books or Articles?

Hey! I’ve started reading more and more philosophy of science in the lead-up to my new postdoc in September. Today I wanna discuss a...

Jun 28

Devotion & Meaning

I wanted to let you behind the curtain to see how philosophical papers are born, so Kjell and I pulled up a Call for Papers on Meaning...

Mar 22

What the hell is Wellness?

The first “fun” feature I ever put on my website was Well-Being in the Wild. Since I was writing a dissertation on well-being anyway, I...

Mar 15

Let a thousand flowers bloom

Last week, we saw Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry square off head-to-head. (I’ll try not to get too technical, but I wanna lay out...

Jan 26

Letting Students Write the Rules

I mentioned before that I’m driving to the University of Kentucky eSports Lounge this weekend to give a talk on how rules structure a...

Jan 5

You will be Misread

When you go to the hospital, we rarely have the resources to treat everyone as promptly and thoroughly as we’d like. So we have to make...

Dec 22, 2023

Arguments are Powerful Tools

Arguments are powerful tools for seeing how commitments hang together. Take the classic reductio ad absurdum, where I try to show that my...

Dec 1, 2023

3 mistakes in Intro Philosophy

As finals approach, I’ve been hired as a grader for my advisor’s Intro Philosophy class. I love these classes, where we’re trying to give...

Nov 24, 2023

So there’s this psychology paper I keep thinking about

It starts, like all psychology papers, with a competitor for the most boringest sentence ever: One of the essential insights from...

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