The day after the San Bernardino massacre, Republicans were engaged in totally pointless business as usual--they were (believe it or ...

Everyone's talking about 'em--like Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff in The Atlantic and Kate Manne in yesterday's New York Tim...

There's a pattern of thought I keep seeing. It goes like this.  You reason that X isn't really so important to pursue, because it do...

My column for the next issue of The Philosophers' Magazine is about "Tangerine" --a new movie about transgender sex workers...

My son has been taking Accutane for the last several months.  Boy it works well (for acne).  It also raises some first class ethical que...

It's so rare that Jon Stewart reasons badly, but I wonder about the reasoning in his Indiana piece last night.  Start at 3:45-- Th...

Our soulful cat Snownose died on Saturday, from cancer, but with the help of euthanasia.  I've never had a cat euthanized before, thou...

A word about Marquette's attempt to fire John McAdams.  One thing (among many) that bothers me is that Dean Holz's letter reveals a ...

Every week there's another appalling story about the way college campuses deal with sexual misconduct.  A Rolling Stone investigation of...

This phrase intrigues me, every time I think about the fact that I'm not a vegan. Here are some interesting and relevant reflections fro...

Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift ask an interesting question about conferring advantage on children in their new book Family Values .  We d...

My review of Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life , by Neera K. Badhwar, is at Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews. 

So we were in Prague last summer and discovered this thing called a "table charge."  I'm not really sure exactly what it is...

Peter Singer makes a very persuasive case that we ought to spend money to alleviate extreme poverty rather than buying the latest luxuries  ...

Harvard has a new and more victim-friendly sexual misconduct policy as of this fall, and 28 professors in the law school have complained abo...

It's all over the news:  a lesbian couple used a sperm bank to create their baby girl and now they're suing, because the bank ...

Interesting post here by Eric Schwitzgebel, with a lot of relevance to the fact that very few people succeed at being perfect or even near-...

I wonder about some choices made by Thomas Duncan, the Ebola patient who's being treated at a hospital in Dallas, and may have infected ...

My trek through the literature on sex differences continues. These podcasts from NeuroGenderings III are interesting, especially the talks b...

Lately I've been working on the gender chapter of my book about parenthood. Because I've been knee deep in the literature about gend...

I've been working forever on one chapter of my manuscript/book on parenthood--the chapter on gender.  I think I know part of the reason ...

When I have time to read this I think I'm going to enjoy it!

http://www.theplasticbrickmuseum.com I've been thinking and reading about the idea that sex and/or gender are "socially constru...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/15/world/middleeast/toll-israel-gaza-conflict.html Philosophers have been writing a lot latel...