[youtube id=”84bQWD9FwHE” width=”100%”] In the spring of 2023, the Ethics and Social Justice Center at Bellarmine University issued a call for proposals for their yearly Commonwealth Ethics Lecture. They invited scholars from around the state to propose a talk to be delivered for their 2023 lecture, considering approaches from all disciplines and with special interest…
It takes a village. Raising children takes all hands on deck, including parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and educational policymakers. This paper examines common philosophical norms relevant to each of these groups. The norms include the idea of wanting a better future for our children than we had; the idea that human beings are rational…
I’m excited to announce that my latest paper has been published in the journal, Essays in Philosophy, volume 21, issue 1/2, in 2020. If you want to read the paper, you can click on the image below or click here. [featured-image link=”https://www.pdcnet.org/scholarpdf/show?id=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045&pdfname=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045.pdf&file_type=pdf” link_single=”https://www.pdcnet.org/scholarpdf/show?id=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045&pdfname=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045.pdf&file_type=pdf” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Image of the top of my paper, ‘The Pragmatist’s Call to Democratic…
My regular, public writing is starting up again, as we’re getting settled in. Over the course of a few busy months, some of my pieces have come out in academic outlets, like the essay I posted last week. Here’s a further piece published this year (2016) in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. It’s titled “Self-Respect…
Hi folks. It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted. There’s a reason that they say moving is one of the most stressful times in life. It certainly is. Among the many things I’ve been meaning to post is my latest essay, which is a commentary piece I wrote and originally delivered at the 2015…
[featured-image link=”http://www.pragmatismtoday.eu/winter2015/10%20Weber.pdf” link_single=”http://www.pragmatismtoday.eu/winter2015/10%20Weber.pdf” single_newwindow=”true” alt=”Photo of the top of my paper, which links to the PDF file on the journal’s Web site.”] I’m happy to announced that my latest paper, as of December 2015, has been published in Pragmatism Today, the peer-reviewed journal of the Central-European Pragmatist Forum. This paper is a step in the larger project…
This piece, published in 2014, represents an important early step in a book project in progress, titled A Culture of Justice. Abstract In this essay, I review the writings of three philosophers whose work con-verges on the insight that we must attend to and reconstruct culture for the sake of justice. John Rawls, John Dewey, and Richard…
This piece is the culmination of years of researching and thinking about public philosophy. If you know me, you know that “America’s Public Philosopher” was John Dewey. Elements of this piece will show up in my introduction for a collection of Dewey’s public writings that I am finishing up. Abstract This article argues for a…