If you have conservative sensitivities, can you also be an egalitarian? I think so. A forthcoming paper on a theme that Jerry Cohen discussed in one of my favourite philosophy pieces. philpapers.org/rec/GHECAJ

The Tiger Hunt (1616), by Peter Paul Rubens

"could it be that those microchimeric cells in my brain originating in my children have impacted my taste in art?" blog.apaonline.org/2025/06/20/con…

Here's Jonathan Shedler saying, in effect, that we don't know what gender dysphoria is - the term is an abstraction that might mean a variety phenomena, perhaps too different to be helpfully denoted by the same concept. Same is true about "gender identity".

Some problems go away if ignored long enough. How to teach after the advent of ChatGPT is not one of them. My view is that what we train need not be the same as what we assess. Discussion at Justice Everywhere: justice-everywhere.org/education/what…

This is going viral for a reason.

Dogs can have metaphysical emotions.

Proud of my doctoral student Dmitry Sereda, whose first publication just came out: lnkd.in/dU_fwfPq

I made this video about what I saw in detail. If you only ever watched one thing I share please make it this. A million dogs lives depend on getting this message out there… youtu.be/6wgTYH6Te20?si…

Watching this with mixed feelings.

This handbook to the philosophy of human rights, edited by Jesse Tomalty and Kerri Woods is out (at an infuriatingly exorbitant price!) Lovely experience to work with them and contribute a piece on children's human rights. routledge.com/The-Routledge-….

If the positions of advantage in a society reward much in excess of what justice allows, or are unjust because they involve illegitimate power, should we still care about fair equality of opportunity to access them? I think not, for reasons I give here: philpapers.org/archive/GHEOSI…

A few years ago I came across the great adventurer Daryl Davis, who still fascinates me today. When I was invited to be part of a book on public philosophy, I knew this was my chance to start sharing his story. nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our-p…

Even if justice requires the abolition of inheritance, procreative liability and parental love generate duties that justify some bequests, limited in size and form. Or so I argue in this paper, now forthcoming in Ethics: philpapers.org/rec/GHEPPI

Sometimes having two problems is better than having only one: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

How can we use everybody's time in the classroom well, given that many students seem to be reading only AI-generated summaries of papers? Here's what I learned from others and my own experience, and an invitation to contribute ideas (or complaints): justice-everywhere.org/general/worse-…

Join the club of philosophers and anarchists, who wonder whether those who bring children into the world should have the legal right to also bring them up, and if yes, for what reason: blog.apaonline.org

If you're a graduate student or know any, look at this call. This is an annual conference at CEU, with a stream of panels in political philosophy. And this year's keynote is Andrew Williams! Deadline for abstracts: the 26th of February. philevents.org/event/show/145…