Talks

(Slides from recent talks I’ve given. Pdf versions.)

Go to Stoicism
Go to general philosophy
Go to pseudoscience
Go to philosophy of science

On Stoicism

• How to be a Stoic when facing modern politics
• A Field Guide to the Happy Life
• What does it mean to be a Stoic?
• Do people commit evil out of ignorance?
• How I became a Stoic
• Modern Stoicism and the return of virtue ethics
• Dying every day with dignity: lessons from Stoicism

On general philosophy

• Batman, Spider-Man, and philosophy
• Living according to nature: the philosophy and biology of human nature
• Science, philosophy, and the meaning of life
• Skepticism and epistemic virtue
• The variety of scientisms

On pseudoscience

• Denying evolution (and a few other things)
• Science, pseudoscience, and all that jazz

On philosophy of science

• How do philosophers and biologists talk about causality?
• Epigenetic inheritance and evolutionary theory
• Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis?
• On the many meanings of “doing theory” in biology
• Theory in fundamental physics: the view from outside