Publications
If you wanted to have a small blurb here that explained what people will find on the page / your work so far, this is the best spot to put it. Typically, 1-2 sentences is plenty (although, being an academic, you are welcome to write longer paragraphs… hahaha)
Night of the Living Words
The Ecology of Death
Flirting with Natural Philosophy
A Brief Memo to Pragmatists Concerning Induction
Not Without a Doubt
Induction, Induction, Goose!
Meditations on Western Philosophy
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle
Night of the Living Words
2024
In this short invited chapter, I argue that whereas some people may be warranted in thinking that God is what Thomas Jay Oord refers to as “amipotent,” or only empowered to be perfectly loving, other people may be equally as warranted in thinking that God is instead omnipotent, or all-powerful, depending upon pragmatic considerations.
The Ecology of Death
2024
This is not an academic paper. It is the hurried thinking out loud of an academic who is admittedly late to the game when it comes to taking our present climate catastrophe seriously. What I suggest is that if we want to study living systems, which we must do if we want to increase our chances of survival as a species, we also need to study what I refer to as death systems.
Flirting with Natural Philosophy
2024
This sentence is almost longer than the romp I go on with science and philosophy in this brief paper.
A Brief Memo to Pragmatists Concerning Induction
2024
This is an open letter addressed to my fellow Pragmatists concerning the Problem of Induction. Others are of course also welcome to read it.
Not Without a Doubt
2024
In this paper, I share my story about some of my experiences with doubt. Along the way, I also share some philosophical reflections. I know this does not tell you very much, but like I said, I am telling a story, and I do not want to spoil the ending.
Induction, Induction, Goose!
2024
In this paper I raise concerns that I have with what I perceive to be as a complete lack of warrant for Hume’s assertion that there are only two types of reasoning – demonstrative and probable. (Hume’s fork) What I leave for others to decide is whether this lack of warrant therefore successfully undercuts Hume’s argument for the Problem of Induction.
Meditations on Western Philosophy
2024
In this paper I shall explain how I came to realize that for as long as I believed that there exists an epistemic gap, or veil of perception, separating the world into that which is subjective and internal to the mind from that which is objective and external to the mind, I was unable to provide a compelling argument for the existence of this same Epistemic Gap ontology.
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle
2024
In this short invited commentary, I raise a question for the proponents of Active Inference - how are we supposed to explain the fact that some organisms seem to be better at adapting to their environments than others?
