So I’ve been sinking deeper into a pit of COVID parenting exhaustion and numbness and world nausea and work burnout. One of the signs of depression for me is losing that weird obsessive aesthetic fire that always usually drags me … Continue reading →| Objectionable
After a recent professional pivot, I am now literally an academic specialist in the philosophy of games. (Here’s my new book on games as an art form.) The main change in my life is that everybody now asks me for board … Continue reading →| Objectionable
OK, so one thing I’ve been doing during pandemic era is trying out hot sauces. Like a lot of hot sauces. Like a really unbearably large number of hot sauces. Like setting up hot sauce tastings where lunch is me … Continue reading →| Objectionable
Now officially out: my first book, Games: Agency as Art. Thanks to Oxford University for making this all happen! The book says that games are a distinctive art form — one very different from the traditional arts. Game designers don’t just … Continue reading →| Objectionable
My new article The Arts of Action is out now in Philosopher’s Imprint! This article is kind of intensely personal – perhaps awkwardly so, for an academic article. I realized, while I was writing it, that it was distilling basically … Continue reading →| Objectionable
This is among my stupidest, but perhaps most spiritually effective teaching tricks. I teach these huge intro ethics classes. Many of the students find the process really really emotionally intense, and some report getting deeply freaked out by certain questions. … Continue reading →| Objectionable
This is my food recommendations for Salt Lake City list, updated for 2019! I arrived in SLC seven years ago in a tumble of culinary sorrow. I’d been writing food for the LA Times during graduate school, and I had to … Continue reading →| Objectionable
My paper, Games and the art of agency, is now forthcoming at Philosophical Review. The paper argues that games are the art form of agency. Game designers don’t just create worlds, or stories. They tell us who we will be in … Continue reading →| Objectionable
My new paper, Monuments as Commitments: How Art Speaks to Groups and How Groups Think in Art, is forthcoming in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. The paper argues: 1. That there are some kinds of art that primarily *address groups*, rather than … Continue reading →| Objectionable
My analysis of echo chambers as trust-manipulators is now available in two exciting different versions! First, there was Escaping the Echo Chamber, the short version written for a general audience.…| Objectionable
