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I like short and clever games, and I like it when philosophers post niche personal projects on their websites. Here are three such projects of mine.
First is "What's Your Ethical Theory?", a personality quiz designed for use in public philosophy. If you answer a few questions about your ethical intuitions, you'll be assigned a (simplified) view in ethics that might match yours.
Second is a crossword I wrote for the American Society for Aesthetics's 2025 Annual Meeting.
Third is a series of double dactyls, a silly form of light verse with a restrictive structure and a distinctive tone.
What's Your Ethical Theory?
Aesthetics Crossword
Double Dactyls
Higgledy piggledy
Mengzi, that optimist
Thought human nature was
Good in its seed.
Xunzi cried, "Nonsense! We're
Nonphototropical.
Prune us to shape or else
Wild grows the weed."
Higgledy piggledy
Mary B. Midgley said
Concepts need plumbing, so
Thinkers must think.
Metaphor amplifies
Superability:
Unclog philosophy
Just like a sink.
Higgled-eh piggled-eh
Taylor (Canadian):
Selfhood is narrative,
Narrative's joint.
Sense-making power is
Interlocutional.
(That's how I think of it—
You get the point.)
Yessiree nosiree
Reason Socratically
Question assumptions 'til
Nothing you know.
Later, though, yes-men will
Undialogically
Only tell Socrates
"Surely 'tis so."
Platonic shmatonic
Poor Alcibiades
Athens's boy toy and
Traitor-to-be.
Barging in drunkenly,
Symposiastically,
"Love is...what Socrates
Won't give to me."
Stultified [falsified]
Kant, so the story goes,
Didn't take lovers or
Ventures or gin.
Two lone things pleased in their
Universality:
Stars up above him and
Morals within.
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