The Works
This is a collection of much of my written work over my recent career, including both professional articles, popular writings, and textbooks, organized to complement and extend key themes and chapters of Philosophy's Big Chance.
The Nature and Tasks of Philosophy
Critiques of Philosophy’s leading self-conceptions; re-visions of what Philosophy might make itself instead, today. This section also offers the full text of my literary-conceit, Jobs for Philosophers.
Critical and Creative Thinking
Articles and textbooks in the basics of critical and creative thinking, from Rulebooks and Workbooks for Arguments to Thinking Through Questions, How to Re-Imagine the World, and “Creative Futures Conspiracies”.
Ethics and Meta-Ethics
Philosophical ethical engagement not as theory-driven judgmental argument, but as ongoing constructive and transformative problem-solving and community-building. Textbooks, case studies, sketch of a program.
Eco-Philosophy
Four books and a dozen-odd articles elaborate Chapter 6’s sketch of Environmental Philosophy in multiple transformative modes: critical, experiential, world-reconstructive, and finally paradigm-changing forms.
Exo-Philosophy
“Space” and the alien are vital philosophical topics, both for their built-in imaginative edginess and because when fully confronted they challenge us back to the Earth itself in dramatically transformed ways.
Outtakes
Fragments, outlines, and write-ups that don’t or didn’t fit anywhere. Hume’s “imaginative skepticism” and good humor; MLK and the Jericho Road; Socrates and Plato; Darwin; Utopia; etc.