Future of the Humanities
An excerpt from How to Think about Progress: A Skeptic's Guide
Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023
The need for brave experiments in higher education 2 March 2024
This is an excerpt from a Springer book on the mistakes we make about Technological Progress
The need for brave experiments in higher education 2 March 2024
Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023
The need for brave experiments in higher education 2 March 2024
We need Brave Experiments in Higher Education.
Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023
Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023
Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023
A piece for ABC Religion and Ethics on how charismatic tech dudes literally own the future. We can fight back by freeing our imaginations
When Socrates meets Silicon: A cross-cultural conversation on human enhancement - 1 May 2024
Owning the future: How Big Tech coopted our imaginations, and how we can take them back 19 Dec 2023
A Platonic dialogue, with comedic touches, between a Brazilian and a New Zealand philosopher on how to approach our age's challenges.
To protect the humanities from being taken over by Humanities, Inc., 15 Feb 2024
A piece on the challenges of Big Academic Publishing. Does it want to turn academic writers into robots?
More philosophy to create cognitive herd immunity - 12 Jan 2022
A piece on the challenge of fake news during a pandemic. Might the study of philosophy provide cognitive herd immunity?
Finding Purpose in the Humanities- 9 Dec 2021
Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?- 14 Nov 2022
Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?- 14 Nov 2022
Piece for Project Syndicate describing an experiment in student writing about the humanities
Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?- 14 Nov 2022
Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?- 14 Nov 2022
Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?- 14 Nov 2022
Piece on the ABC suggesting Wikipedia should ask for help, not money.
Beware the Wikipedia effect in higher education - 13 Dec 2021
Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?- 14 Nov 2022
This piece on the ABC uses ideas from the behavioural economist Dan Ariely to point to a threat for the in-depth understanding characteristic of the humanities from Wikipedia's knowledge-for-free business model.
A warning for traditional universities - August 10, 2021
A warning for traditional universities - August 10, 2021
Scary things in store for traditional universities from digital learning techs that will predictably improve on the miseries of teaching by Zoom
Nicholas Agar Says More... - May 26, 2020
A warning for traditional universities - August 10, 2021
Nicholas Agar Says More... - May 26, 2020
An interview about some of my ideas by Project Syndicate.
Mind Over STEM - Aug 30, 2019
A warning for traditional universities - August 10, 2021
Nicholas Agar Says More... - May 26, 2020
An exploration of the value of the Humanities in these times of rapid technological change. We need it to overcome our bias toward overconfident experts.