
Below is a partial list of some of my favorite essays and videos that I have authored or participated in on behalf of external platforms (i.e., not my own site or publication). I think they may be worth reading or watching. Most recent entries at the top within each group.
- Stoics as (political) activists (Aeon)
- Musonius Rufus: Roman Stoic, and avant-garde feminist? (Psyche)
- The purpose of life (New Philosopher)
- Interview with Plato’s Academy
- Updating Epictetus And Stoicism For the 21st century (Stoicism Today)
- The Joys of Being a Stoic. Science and ancient Greeks agree—Stoicism increases well-being. (Nautilus)
- The Stoic self: an eminently practical take on who we are. (IAI News)
- On COVID-19 and pandemics: a secular Stoic perspective (the Humanist)
- How to Practice Epictetus’ Disciplines for a Good Life (Modern Stoicism)
- Again: modern science does not support the Stoic God, and that’s okay (The Side View)
- The Stoic god is untenable in the light of modern science (The Side View)
- Marcus Aurelius — the Unemotional Stoic? (IAI News)
- Human nature matters (Aeon)
- How to live like a Stoic (New Philosopher)
- Infidelity: a Stoic’s perspective (IAI News)
- What the Stoics did for us (New Humanist)
- When I help you, I also help myself: on being a cosmopolitan (Aeon)
- Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee? The Stoics and Existentialists agree on the answer (IAI News)
- Anger is temporary madness: the Stoics knew how to curb it (Aeon)
- On the happy life (commentary on Seneca) (Aeon)
- Better Living Through Stoicism (Night of Philosophy)
- How a skeptic became a Stoic (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- The best five books on Stoicism (Five Books)
- Stoicism (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- How to be a Stoic (New York Times)
- What is this thing called pseudoscience? How to tell science from bunk (IAI News)
- Free speech and virtue ethics (Aereo Magazine)
- No Matter How You Put It, Scientism Is Still A Bad Idea (APA blog)
- The editors of Philosophical Psychology stalled and rejected our commentary to an unscientific and racist publication. (Medium)
- The perils of knowledge in a pandemic. Fake news and pseudoscience during a pandemic is a moral issue we’re all responsible for. (Institute of Art and Ideas)
- Living the good life. (APA blog)
- How (and why) to choose your philosophy of life. A philosophical guide for living a good life. (Institute of Art and Ideas)
- An 8-part exchange between Philip Goff and myself on the science and philosophy of panpsychism, the notion that consciousness is somehow elemental in the universe. (Wiki.Letter)
- Consciousness is real. Consciousness is neither a spooky mystery nor an illusory belief. It’s a valid and causally efficacious biological reality. (Aeon)
- Wisdom: what is it? (The Philosophers’ Magazine)
- The big myths in and on science. Why do bad scientific theories live for so long? (Institute of Art and Ideas)
- An 8-part exchange of letters between David Sloan Wilson and myself about the usefulness of Darwinian theory in the understanding of human history (Wiki.Letter)
- Richard Feynman was wrong about beauty and truth in science (Aeon)
- Set your alarm clock (on the metaphysics and ethics of time) (New Philosopher)
- Human Nature and the ethical life (Project Syndicate)
- Diogenes the Cynic vs Elon Musk (Institute of Art and Ideas)
- Is there a universal morality? (The Evolution Institute)
- The problem with scientism (APA Blog)
- The case for more science and philosophy books for children (Nautilus)
- Must science be testable? (Aeon)
- When philosophy of science matters: pseudoscience, public health, and public policy (APA Blog)
- Why do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis? (EES Blog)
- God and the Source of Morality — On the Euthyphro dilemma (The Philosopher’s Magazine, part I & part II)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Value of Philosophy (HuffPost)
- The dangers of pseudoscience (New York Times)
- What Hard Problem? (Philosophy Now)
- Who knows what: on the relationship between the sciences and the humanities (Aeon)
- How to be a Stoic skeptic (in the sense of critical thinker) (NYC Skeptics)
- What Stoic philosophy teaches us about living in a pandemic (University of Michigan)
- Think Like a Stoic, a collection of 25 lectures (The Great Courses)
- The philosophy of Stoicism (TED-Ed)
- A Stoic guide to happiness (BBC)
- Stoicism as philosophy for an ordinary life (TED-x)
- How to be a Stoic, in 12 practical exercises (One Percent Better)
- How to be a Stoic (Stoicon)
- Memes all the way down? A conversation with Hilary Lawson, Joanna Bryson, and yours truly (IAI TV)
- Science Unlimited? On the nature of scientism (Meaning of Life TV)
- Stoicism, Skepticism and Pseudoscience (IAI TV)
- Nonsense On Stilts: Science, Pseudoscience & The Need For Critical Thinking (ThinkOlio)
- Lost in the Matrix: are we living in a computer simulation? (IAI TV)
- Scientist, Philosopher, Stoic – a conversation with John Horgan (Meaning of Life TV)
- The Logos, what is it? (Meaning of Life TV)
- Natural kinds (Meaning of Life TV)
- Could evolution be conscious? (Meaning of Life TV)
- The enemy within (The Colbert Report)
- Massimo (and others) gives ethical advice to Vice President Pence (The President Show)
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