Philosophy, et cetera

I'm very happy to say that Helen & I will be joining the philosophy department at the University of Miami next year! We bid farew...

Happily, I was in a position this year to make donations worth around 8 kidneys , mostly split between SCI (deworming: most cost-effective ...

Happily, Helen and I will be joining the wonderful philosophy department at the University of York , starting in September. We're reall...

... is my paper, ' Value Receptacles '.  The abstract: Utilitarianism is often rejected on the grounds that it fails to respect t...

I encourage  everyone who wants to make the world a better place to join Giving What We Can  and pledge to give 10% of their pre-tax income ...

It's been a crazy year. Helen turned down two tenure-track offers, and me one (from St Andrews), for "two body" reasons. Fo...

I was recently interviewed about optimal philanthropy by Alex from OK So What Now? . Follow the link for the full episode (which includes i...

Giving What We Can: Princeton is launching this Monday with talks from Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia) and Larry Temkin (Rutgers) -- event details...

Helen and I got married over the weekend!

Check out my little brother on the vibraphone!

Well, that was a fun trip. We were staying with family in Christchurch for the 7.1 magnitude earthquake, but our house was undamaged. (Incr...

It's time for me to start preparing for my pre-dissertation "generals exam". Probably the trickiest thing here is pinning down...

I've previously noted the norm-shaping importance of public giving, for which social-networking sites like Facebook seem especially wel...

Oh my god... I love this piece ! It's Don Skoog's wonderfully rhythmic Attendance to Ritual , performed by my legendary little broth...

Some commenters here complain about how "Social misfits are really rife in philosophy." It can certainly be discomforting when t...

Assuming that expressions of cultural incomprehension fall under the 'et cetera' component of this blog's purview, let me ask: w...

Jean Kazez says I'm supposed to list eight random facts about myself, and then tag eight random people to repeat the process. Here goes...

At my brother's insistence (he wants to beat me at geography games), I've finally signed up for this "Facebook" thing that...

There's a nice quote from Marianne Williamson: It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to b...

The 50th Philosophers' Carnival is here . A nice milestone -- we've come a long way since August 2004 ! There were a few fits and s...