Yes. My friend, Scott Williams, has put together an excellent book bringing the academic field of disability studies into dialogue with scholarship in mediev...

What is left for the cold grey soul That moans like a wounded dove? One wine is left in the broken bowl 'Tis, to love, and love, and love. G. MacDonald, Phan...

Here is an audio file of some commentary I gave on Charles Williams' novel, The Place of the Lion. I originally recorded this for my students after our trans...

Philosophy is an activity and all activities aim at the good. What good does Philosophy aim at? Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding. These are the most common s...

What is it like to do philosophy? Here is an image. Imagine a rock on a calm sandy beach. The waves slowly wash up, caressing the rock, moving it around, pus...

By the practice of gratitude I mean a lot more than observing all rules of etiquette about when and how to express gratitude to another person. Or even culti...

The Scythians fight by flying. This is what Socrates tells us, anyway, in Plato’s Laches. He asks Laches himself what courage is, and Laches replies that cou...

I have a new paper out today, "A Most Mitigated Friar: Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Freedom." It shows how Scotus reconciles the voluntaristic aspects of...

Bernard Williams has a famous paper, "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality." I've been studying the paper and here is my explication...