Consilience and Naturalistic Ethics
If everyone is marching out of time perfectly in sync, except you, then you are the one marching out of time.
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Why Every Road Leads Back to Ideology
When ideology succeeds it takes the win as proof. When it fails, it calls for more of itself. The alternative isn't certainty about which values are right — it's staying permanently willing to find out you've ranked your values wrongly all along.
Reflections on AME 2026: Find Your People
The better path, I think, is this: do good work with good people. Ask and answer the hardest, deepest questions you can bear to touch.
Why Moral Psychology and Moral Education Need Behaviourism
Moral psychology is not the study of free-floating ideals, but the study of how human beings come to value, choose, regulate, cooperate, sacrifice, persist, harm, repair, and change. Moral education is not the transmission of attractive words, but the deliberate shaping of environments in which pupils learn what kinds
Why Values Are Not Enough
This article is about practical wisdom, virtue, and the problem with modern advice about living well. We are often told to live by our values. Therapists ask clients to clarify them. Coaches invite people to align with them. Schools display them on walls. Organisations print them in strategic plans, often