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I’ve written about Wollstonecraft a lot, in the last fifteen years: books, articles, edited volumes. I started writing about her the minute I found out about her. And I found out about her because a male colleague suggested we add her Vindication of the Rights of Woman to our intro to social and political philosophy […]
Read MoreAs a pre-teen, I was fascinated with how cosmological and biological evolution led to humanity. Every new book checked out from the library led me to rewrite increasingly long, detailed lists of every step along the way. One day as I was writing the newest one, my father suggested that I call my list “How […]
Read MoreThe question of why there is something rather than nothing is supposed to be one of those “big” timeless topics in philosophy. And yet surprisingly few full-length books are published on the topic. Perhaps this is because it has a reputation for being such a difficult and mind-boggling question. But I think that we can […]
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Many people these days talk about vulnerability: children, the elderly, and those who are poor are all described as vulnerable. During the pandemic, protecting the vulnerable became the guiding principle of public health policy which has translated into every practices. But what exactly is vulnerability and why should we care about it? Another subject many […]
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Political arguments often appeal to fundamental moral intuitions about right and wrong. Politicians highlight the moral basis of their views and positions. For example, in the context of the recent U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, Senator Steve Daines explicitly appealed to morals in his post on X saying that he “support[s] President Trump’s actions […]
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Other than Paul, no writer has had greater influence on the theology of justification than Augustine. In the preface to his Latin works, Martin Luther famously narrated his discovery of the justifying righteousness of God: first he says he read Paul’s Letter to the Romans, but the very next author he turned to for confirmation […]
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This book brings together two vibrant academic discourses that have rarely interacted beforehand: religious epistemology and comparative hagiography. Inspired by Austin Farrer’s provocative claim that ‘the saint is our evidence’, it presents what I propose we call the ‘hagiological argument for the existence of God’- that is, the idea that human lives of remarkable holiness […]
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Uly Anders first pulled me into the puzzle The Reformation of Liturgy: Matter and Time Reconceived seeks to unravel. He was executed in 1520. His crime? Blasphemy, which the law defined as an affront against God. Anders had broken up and thrown out a window a small crucifixion scene carved in wood. The image had […]
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