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Physicalism: for Us, for Our Causality, for Our Spacetime, for All Spacetime, and for All Reality

Progressively More Demanding Versions of Physicalism

The Dark Side of Making Life Enjoyable

Emotional Material Intellectual Physical

Epstein Files, Cesar Chavez, QAnon, and Sexual Assault

We Already Knew All This

Really Bad Criticisms of Twin-Earth from Chomsky, Dennett, and Others

They Should Have Known Better

Worthwhile Physicalist Theses Without Anything Like Physicalism

Maybe It's Easier Than We Thought

My Epistemology, Without Argument

Not that You Asked

When Philosophy Tears You a New One

Two Reactions that Are Polar Opposites

How to Become Unflappable

Be the Adult in the Room When Tragedy Strikes

Isn't It Foolish to Pay Attention to Politics?

Many of Us Go Way too Far

Is God Ever Unjustified in Allowing Suffering?

In strong versions of the Problem of Evil, one premise goes something like this:

Philosophical Progress Can Be Bad for You

Surprising Consequences for Philosophical Belief

You're Underestimating the Significance of the Problem

It's Much More Than You Thought

Professors Who Interrupt Q&A Sessions

When Is It Okay?

How to Manipulate via a Presentation: for Good or Evil

A Method that Works

Do My Meat Purchases Cause Additional Factory Farming?

It's Stupidly Unlikely

Thoughts on External World Skepticism

From an Interview

What Will Your Autobiography Focus on?

I had an illuminating conversation with a client after I mentioned that the biggest events of my childhood were intellectual epiphanies.

Philosophy and Evidence of Miracles

Four Reasons for Skepticism

Stages of Awareness of Religious Disagreement

With Suggestions about What to Do about It

What Are Your Reasons for Not Helping the Poor?

There's No Judgment Here!