Additional Material From The Author

Thank you for your interest in the subjects of human nature, morality, happiness, and sustainability!

On this page, I will occasionally post or provide links to essays and other materials that summarize, elaborate on, or expand upon topics in The Obligations Of Reason. These materials are not intended to replace discussions in The Obligations Of Reason but should be very helpful to people who have already read the book or people who are interested in specific themes in the book.

Essays and Explanatory Materials (click on title to select)

• To Scientifically Informed Philosophers and Philosophically Minded Scientists
• The Relevance Of Scientific Understanding To Morality In The Normative Sense
• On Morality: A View and Argument (one recent Abstract)
• The Foundational Bridge (An Abstract)
• Life, The Bridge, and Coming Together
• “The Bridge: A-QED”
• WHY and WHY and WHY
• The Morality of Sustainability: A DIY Exploration
• On Morality: Key Considerations and a Bridge
• What good am I?
• On Morality
• Robot Revelations
• Darwin, Camus, and Hamlet went into a bar, AND . . .
• A Framework and Paradigm Of Morality
• Science and Philosophy (Regarding Morality), Context, The Bridge, and etc.
• “Moral Beings”, Is-Ought, Fact-Value, and Other (Big) Stuff
• Portions of the Supporting Argument In Additional Forms
• Regarding "Directional Dynamics" and "Normative Facts"
• Speaking of Hands, and Adaptations, and . . .
• The Nature of the Relationship Between Is and Ought
• The Nature of Morality
• Some Roots and Relations, Noted
• “Robot Revelations”: An Opportunity
• Illustrative Quotes
• The Bridge, as you like it
• More On The Bridge (adding to earlier)
• Conscious, Informed, Responsible Human Sociality
• Assorted Illustrations of The Problems
• RESOLVED
• Four Questions, The Differences Among Them, and The Implications of Those Differences
• If you're going to San Francisco ...
• Inquiring Minds Want To Know (revised)
• (more coming soon)

Answers To Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) (coming soon)