The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.

The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world's population maybe is as much as a third of the world's population hasn't yet reached the level of economic development where we begin to get a dissociation from people's economic status and their reports about personal happiness. So we really do need to do much more and much more effectively in order to give everyone the kind of basis for which they can have good vibes.

Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with big money to support their research or to fund their crackpot solutions.