"Fruaglity: from the good life to the good society," The Veolia Institute Review, 2024
"What's so bad about smugness?" Philosophy Now, No. 123, Dec. 2017
"Philosophers who like stuff," Humanities, Fall 2017
"Why the simple life is not just beautiful but necessary," Aeon, Nov. 2016
"How not to accuse someone of prejudice," (Think) [3QuarksDaily version]
"The moral countenance of art," (Philosophy Now)
"Galahad v Odysseus: Honor codes in sport and beyond" (Philosophy Now)
"Will the Great Corrupters Please Rise" (The Humanist)
Does being under surveillance make us morally better? (Philosophy Now)
Should frugality be viewed as a virtue? (The Philosophers' Magazine)
Americans Don't Really Believe the Ten Commandments (The Humanist)
The Placebo Effect (a short story) (Philosophy Now)
The Little Things (The Philosophers' Magazine)
Autonomy, Rationality, and Sensibility (Conference on Modernity, 2000)
On Relativism
Cognitive Relativism (The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Moral Relativism (The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Relativism: An Allegorical Elucidation (Philosophy Now)
The contemporary relevance of Socrates' question to Euthyphro (Think)
Relativism, Truth and Implicit Commitments (International Studies in Philosophy)
On the Motivations for Relativism (Cogito)
Relativism and Autonomy (The Philosophical Forum)
Against an objectivist notion of intrinsic value (Southwest Philosophy Review)
Relativism and Naturalism (Alain Locke Conference, 2000)
Relativism (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
On Other Stuff
Academic Dishonesty and the Culture of Assessment (JNCHS Download)
(Pure text version click here)
Interactive Meditations: Discussion Assignments in an Introductory Philosophy Class
(see attached file below)
Habermas on the relation between understanding and evaluation (SPEP conference, 1996)