Philosophy for a wider audience
A piece on grief in the digital magazine Psyche.
A podcast episode of Recall This Book with John Plotz and Katie Elliott in which we talk about grief and expiring emotions.
A podcast episode of the New Books Network in which Carrie Figdor and I talk about my book on On the Temporality of Emotions.
A podcast episode of Minds Almost Meeting with Agnes Callard and Robin Hanson in which we discuss “Disagreement and Alienation."
A podcast episode of Aleks Listens in which Aleks Hammo and I talk about grief, love, and existentialism.
My interview with Richard Marshall at 3:16AM Magazine: Evidence, Agency and Bad Faith.
Wireless Philosophy: Promising against the Evidence
For more on this topic, see my Research Project entitled Evidence and Agency!
Episode I
In this Wireless Philosophy video, I talk about promises to do difficult things, such as the promise to spend the rest of one's life with someone. I explain why such promises pose a philosophical problem: they seem to be either insincere, in case one doesn't believe that one will keep them, or irrational, in case one does believe it. I describe how exactly the problem arises and sketch five possible responses.
Episode II
In this Wireless Philosophy video, I continue my discussion of promises to do difficult things, such as the promise to spend the rest of one's life with someone. I present four possible responses to the problem of promising against the evidence, and explain why each is problematic.
Episode III
In this Wireless Philosophy video, I continue my discussion of promises to do difficult things, such as the promise to spend the rest of one's life with someone. Continuing from my explanation of four possible responses to the problem, I explain my preferred response.