Reflections On What Matters
I created this Substack to share essays, musings, lecture summaries, interviews, etc. connected to the question, "What matters, in the broadest sense of the term?"
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 10
- Latest publication
- Sep 13, 2026
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- Aug 1, 2026
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The Social Pressure on Ethical Theorizing (opens the original)
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An Argument for the Impossibility of Suffering’s Ever Being Deserved (opens the original)
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On the Notion That the Guilty Deserve to Suffer (opens the original)
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Why Parfit Did Not Waste His Life (opens the original)
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Maximally Free Agency (opens the original)
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