The Fiction Fallacy: Part 2, What Now?
In the first part of my exploration of the Fiction Fallacy, I argued that we cannot derive knowledge of the external world from fictions whatsoever. Now, it may occur to […]
FAT: Lessons from Malawi
My relative lack of appetite has become something of a joke in our tiny little Malawian village. When I first arrived, my host-mom Jureka seemed determined to feed me all […]
What Can We Ask about Sexual Assault and Greek Life
Why Rampant Sexual Assault in Greek Life Should Not Surprise Us Within my first week of college at American University, I was told that Epsilon Iota (EI) was notorious for […]
Teach To The Future, Part 1: How To Write For The Internet
(The first in a series of posts about things children should learn, but often don’t.) For all the hand-wringing over technology’s effect on our culture, I am certain that even […]
Getting Youth to Take Action: Interview w/ Frank Fredericks, Founder of World Faith
Frank Fredericks is the founder of World Faith whose mission is to build a globally movement of religiously-diverse youth to counter religious violence and end global poverty. World Faith is […]
The Fiction Fallacy: Part 1, The Problem
In the day to day tedium of life, I often turn to fiction for comfort. I appeal to fictions in part because they help pass the time, and also because […]
On Love and Polygamy: Lessons from Malawi
Morning finds me strolling along the dusty roadside, small fires grilling maize into crispy gold, dough bubbling in hot vats of oil…the village coming to life. I reach the little […]
On the Boundaries of Bioethics: Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Euthanasia
Prelude One February night, my father and I were waiting at a commuter train station in the suburb where he lived. We were waiting to pick up a friend coming […]
Santa Muerte: Remembering Saints Are People Too
Though I’m not religious, I have a bit of an obsession with saints. I’m talking the Catholic ones. I love their individual stories. I love their collective history. I love […]
Of Hidden Gods: Sometimes Absence of Evidence IS Evidence of Absence
I love this popular little mantra: the absence of evidence isn’t the evidence of absence, also known as the fallacy of the argument from ignorance. If you’re not already familiar with […]
Applied Sentience 