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Learning How to Die on Stage, Times Literary Supplement (September 2024)
Is it Okay to Do Wrong for the Greater Good?, The Guardian (June 2024)
Is Philosophy Self-Help?, The Point (February 2024)
Robert Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will, The Atlantic (November 2023)
Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress, LA Review of Books (October 2023)
Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible, Times Literary Supplement (June 2023)
Jean-Manuel Roubineau, The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic; Robin Waterfield, Plato of Athens,
The Atlantic (June 2023)
The Atlantic (June 2023)
Philip Kitcher, What's the Use of Philosophy?, London Review of Books (May 2023)
Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times, LA Review of Books (April 2023)
Henry Marsh, And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, New York Times (January 2023)
The BBC at 100, Times Literary Supplement (December 2022)
What's the Use of Hope?, New Statesman (December 2022)
Don't Treat Your Life as a Project, Nautilus (November 2022)
Nick Riggle, This Beauty; Crispin Sartwell, Beauty: A Quick Immersion, Times Literary Supplement (November 2022)
Why We Shouldn't Try To Be Happy, The Guardian (November 2022)
What People Fail to Understand About the Dangers of Loneliness, Big Think (November 2022)
Injustice Is Everywhere, So What Are Our Moral Duties?, BBC Future (November 2022)
Why Does Chronic Pain Hurt So Much?, The Atlantic (November 2022)
Why Disability Isn’t – Or Shouldn’t Be – An Obstacle to Happiness, LitHub (November 2022)
This Time, It's Personal, Times Literary Supplement (August 2022)
William MacAskill, What We Owe the Future, Boston Review (August 2022)
The Philosophy Special, Daily Nous (August 2022)
Jay L. Garfield, Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self, LA Review of Books (June 2022)
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Private Notebooks 1914-1916, translated by Marjorie Perloff, Boston Review (March 2022)
David Chalmers, Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy, Times Literary Supplement (January 2022)
Helen Beebee and Michael Rush, Philosophy: Why It Matters; Timothy Williamson, Doing Philosophy, Society 58 (December 2021)
Jonardon Ganeri, Inwardness; Richard Kearney, Touch; Mark C. Taylor, Intervolution, LA Review of Books (August 2021)
Can Comedy Change the World?, New Statesman (July 2021)
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Crowds: The Stadium as a Ritual of Intensity, Times Literary Supplement (July 2021)
Julian Baggini, The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us About Being Human and Living Well
LA Review of Books (May 2021)
LA Review of Books (May 2021)
Tom Whyman, Infinitely Full of Hope, Literary Review (May 2021)
Creation: Pro(-) and Con, Hedgehog Review (Spring 2021)
Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, London Review of Books (February 2021)
Lovecraft and Me, Yale Review (Fall 2020)
Judah Friedlander Live!, The Critic (October 2020)
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself, The Critic (October 2020)
Trusting Dave Chappelle, The Critic (October 2020)
Streaming Daniel Kitson, The Critic (October 2020)
Joe Moran, If You Should Fail, Literary Review (October 2020)
Five Questions: Q&A, Philosophers' Magazine (3rd Quarter 2020)
Philosophy as Self-Expression, The Philosopher (Summer 2020)
Raymond Geuss, Who Needs a World View?, LA Review of Books (July 2020)
What the Pandemic Tells Us About Personal Identity, New Statesman (May 2020)
Emo Philips Now, LA Review of Books (March 2020)
Terry Eagleton, Humour, LA Review of Books (July 2019)
John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche, Literary Review (April 2019)
Facing Your Mid-Career Crisis, Harvard Business Review (March-April 2019)
On Infinite Baseball: An Interview with Alva Noë, LA Review of Books (March 2019)
Galen Strawson, Things That Bother Me, Times Literary Supplement (January 2019)
Gary Browning, Why Iris Murdoch Matters, LA Review of Books (January 2019)
Alan Lightman, In Praise of Wasting Time; Brian O'Connor, Idleness; Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
Public Books (October 2018)
Public Books (October 2018)
Edouard Machery, Philosophy Within its Proper Bounds, London Review of Books (August 2018)
Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule, Action versus Contemplation, LA Review of Books (June 2018)
Philosophers Should Talk About the Meaning of Life, Aeon (April 2018)
How Schopenhauer's Thought Can Illuminate a Midlife Crisis, Aeon (January 2018)
Michael Ignatieff, The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World, Times Literary Supplement (November 2017)
Stacey May Fowles, Baseball Life Advice; Mark Kingwell, Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters; Keith Law, Smart Baseball
Public Books (October 2017)
Public Books (October 2017)
The Problem of 'Living in the Present', New York Times (September 2017)
Roger Scruton, On Human Nature, Times Literary Supplement (July 2017)
Peter Singer, Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity; Derek Parfit, On What Matters: Volume Three
Times Literary Supplement (May 2017)
Times Literary Supplement (May 2017)
Alva Noë, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, Times Literary Supplement (September 2016)
Justin Broackes, ed., Iris Murdoch, Philosopher, Philosophical Quarterly 62 (October 2012)
Derek Parfit, On What Matters, Mind 120 (October 2011)
Mark Johnston, Saving God and Surviving Death, Ethics 121 (January 2010)
Sergio Tenenbaum, Appearances of the Good, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (May 2007)
Gary Watson, Agency and Answerability: Selected Essays, Mind 114 (July 2005)
Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, eds., Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Philosophical Review 114 (January 2005)