“Counting Sleep” Meanjin online, 6 October 2021
“To Boldly Go” New Philosopher October 2021
“Travail of Two Cities” Meanjin online 25 July 2021
“Perpetual Motion” New Philosopher May 2021
“Safe space or shirking accountability? A new Journal of Controversial Ideas will allow academics to write under pseudonyms” The Conversation 21 April 2021
“No Such Place as Cyberspace” New Philosopher March 2021
“Friday Essay: How Can the Dead Send Us Emails? The Ethical Dilemma of Digital Souls” The Conversation 26 February 2021
“Struggling with the uncertainty of life under coronavirus? How Kierkegaard’s philosophy can help” The Conversation 27 August 2020
“What’s Philosophy For?” New Philosopher August 2020
“At swords’ length: Could a virtual Parliament do the job?” The New Daily 25 July 2020
“Art for Trying Times: How a Philosopher Found Solace Playing Red Dead Redemption 2” The Conversation 22 July 2020
“Higher fees for arts degrees: Why does the government have it in for the humanities?” The New Daily 20 June 2020
“Puddle Thinking” New Philosopher May 2020
“Coronavirus culture war: Captain Cook, that tweet, the right, and their blather” The New Daily 1 May 2020
“Impatience” Meanjin online 27 April 2020
‘Big claims need big defences’: The moral problems with pro-death penalty arguments” The New Daily 23 January 2020
“The Stranger Up Ahead” New Philosopher December 2019
“Chat Bots, James Dean… Can the Digital Dead Rest in Peace?” The Conversation 18 November 2019
“Miracle Mike and the Messiness of Death” New Philosopher July 2019
“False Balance?” New Philosopher May 2019
“Franking Credit’s Monster” Meanjin online12 March 2019
“Ramsay’s Long March Backwards” ADI Blog 22 February 2019
“Teaching Ethics: What’s the Harm?” Philosophy Now January 2019
“Outrunning the Sun” New Philosopher November 2019
“Inhuman Communication: Kierkegaard vs the Internet” ABC Religion and Ethics 25 October 2018
“Free Speech or Public Harm?” Invenio 12 September 2018
“Somebody’s Watching” New Philosopher July 2018
“Two Kinds of Civility: Hospitality and Resistance in the Age of Trump” ABC Religion and Ethics 19 July 2018
“‘What is necessary is to rectify names’: Ramsay’s Game is sheer indoctrination” Medium 26 June 2018
“Shifting the Boundaries” Meanjin online 14 June 2018
“Meet the Infrels: A Thought Experiment” Medium19 May 2018
“The Moral Moment,” Meanjin Autumn 2018
“Just a Game?” New Philosopher May 2018
“Get a Life!” New Philosopher February 2018
“The Trouble With Irony New Philosopher August 2017
“Trigger Warnings, Free Inquiry, and Avoiding Harm” Manifest Virtue, 16 August 2017
“Cyberspace and the Self” Institute of Art and Ideas 31 July 2017
“Philosophy communication is a two-way street: we learn from our publics, rather than simply teaching them”LSE Impact Blog, 26 June 2017
“Are You What You Eat?” New Philosopher April 2017
“John Clarke: An Unsurpassed Craftsman of the Australasian Voice” The Conversation 11 April 2017
“The Vice-President Dines: A Philosophical Dialogue”The Conversation 31 March 2017
“Is It Ok To Punch Nazis?” The Conversation 27 January 2017
“Florentine and Me, or How I Learned To Start Worrying About Philosophy’s Gender Problem” Medium 16 December 2016
“Nature in a Box” New Philosopher November 2016
“Online Grief and the Digital Dead” The Ethics Centre 20 September 2016
“Senator, You’re No Socrates” The Conversation 14 September 2016
“The ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage Equality Owes Us Better Arguments” The Conversation 7 August 2016
“Dumb Luck and Entitlement” New Philosopher August 2016
“Please Don’t Explain: Hanson 2.0 and the War on Experts” The Conversation 7 July 2016
“Dangerous Learning” New Philosopher 12 May 2016
“The Argumentum ad Whingeum: An Idea Whose Time Can’t Pass Quickly Enough” The Conversation 19 April 2016
“The Ethics of Conspiracy Theories” Radio National 16 March 2016
“The Marriage Plebiscite: No ‘Time Out’ on Anti-Discrimination Laws” The Conversation 16 February 2016
“The Seducer’s Diary: How 19th Century Philosophy Predicted the Pick Up Artist Movement” The Conversation 4 February 2016
“The Consolations of Philosophy: An Open Letter to Jamie Briggs” The Conversation 4 January 2016
“Science Deniers Reject Authority and Facts” The Age 18 December 2015
“Christmas Already? ‘Tis the Season to Think About Time” The Conversation 23 December 2015
Laura D’Olimpio, Matthew Beard, and Patrick Stokes “Philosophy and Fallout 4: What’s the Appeal of the Post-Apocalypse?” The Conversation 18 November
“The Undeserved Doubt of the Antivaxxer” The Ethics Centre 17 October 2015
“Dragging Around a Beautiful Corpse” New Philosopher 10, October 2015
“A Philosophical Dialogue (That May or May Not Have Something to Do With Recent Events)” The Conversation 5 September 2015
“Bordering on Contempt: Operation Fortitude and the Right to Exclude” 1 September 2015
“Gaybe Baybe and the Privilege of Normality” The Ethics Centre 27 August 2015
“Is Neuromarketing Becoming Unethical?” Acuity August 2015
“Can You Sell Yourself?” New Philosopher 9, July 2015
“On ‘Nanny States’ and Race, Leyonhjelm Exposes the Moral Thinness of Libertarianism” The Conversation 30 June 2015
“Why Conspiracy Theories Aren’t Harmless Fun” The Conversation 26 June 2015
“In Murky Waters: On Paying People Smugglers” The Ethics Centre 18 June 2015
“Same-Sex Marriage: Why the Case Against it is Weak” The Age online 2 June 2015
“Corriging the Incorrigible: Why Philosophy is Good for You (But Can Also Get You Killed)“, Cogito blog, The Conversation, 1 June 2015
“You Are Always On Holiday” New Philosopher 8, May 2015
“Learning Not To Die” New Philosopher 7, March 2015
“This Isn’t a Lifestyle, it’s a Way of Life” The Drum 11 March 2015
“Feeding the Beast: Why Plagiarism Rips Off Readers Too” The Conversation 17 February 2015
“The Bali Nine, and How Not To Argue For The Death Penalty” The Conversation 4 February 2015
“There’s Something Disturbing About Abbott’s Acceptance of Sledging in Cricket” The Guardian 6 January 2015
“Are We the Barbarians?” New Philosopher No.6 2014
“We Don’t Need No Moral Education? Five Things You Should Learn About Ethics” The Conversation 8th September 2014
“Are You Just a Story?” New Philosopher No.5 2014
“The Hunting of the Self” New Philosopher No. 5 2014
“Strange Bedfellows: Euthanasia, Same-Sex Marriage, and Libertarianism” The Conversation 25 July 2014
“Dangerous Ideas, Honour Killings, and Moral Seriousness” The Conversation 25 June 2014
“The Internet Never Forgets, But It Could Forgive” The Drum 13 June 2014
“Should the Dead Roll Over to Make Room for Real Estate?” The Conversation 20 May 2014
“Suspicious Minds” The Philosopher’s Magazine 65 (2nd Quarter 2014) pp.62-67
“Making the Hamster Love Its Wheel” New Philosopher No.4, April 2014
“The Biennale, Transfield, and the Value of Boycott” The Conversation 9th March 2014
“Margaret, David, Wolf Creek 2 and, oh… Torture Porn” The Conversation 27 February 2014
“A Life Worth Living” New Philosopher No.3, February 2014
“The spying game: what a 15th-century Irish warlord can teach today’s politicians” The Conversation 10 December 2013
“The Digital Soul” Aeon 20 November 2013
“Free-Range Debate Puts the Egg Before the Chicken” The Conversation 4 October 2013
“Do You Really Exist Online?” New Philosopher No.2, September 2013
“Australia: Land of Eccentric Election Candidates” The Conversation 6 September 2013
“Waste Not, Want Not – The Politics of Why Philosophy Matters” The Conversation 6 September 2013
“Drowning Mercy: Why We Fear the Boats” 26 June 2013
“Loving the Digital Dead” Ampersand #6: One Little Room June 2013
“Divine Astroturf: Should Anti-Vaccinationists Get Their Own Church?” The Conversation 3 June 2013
“Who Do You Think You Are? The Splendid Mess of Personal Identity” New Philosopher No.1, 27 May 2013
“Ethics is a Jealous God: Self-Regulation vs. Self-Sacrifice” The Conversation 14 June 2013
“Burying Thatcher: Why Celebrating Death is Still Wrong” The Conversation 17 April 2013
“I Tweet Dead People: Can the Internet Help You Cheat Your Maker?” The Conversation 15 March 2013
“Philosophy Under Attack: Lawrence Krauss and the New Denialism,” The Conversation 18 February 2013
“Love Thy Neighbour: Religious Groups Should Not be Exempt from Discrimination Laws,” The Conversation 17 January 2013
“Between Guilt and Innocence: 2Day FM and the Moral Blame Game” The Conversation 10 December 2012
“No, You’re Not Entitled To Your Opinion” The Conversation 5 October 2012
“The Ethics of Bravery: Why a Black Saturday ‘Hero’ Lost His Award” The Conversation 27 June 2012
“Just as I was Getting to Know Me” in Paula Smithka and Court Lewis Doctor Who and Philosophy (Chicago and La Salle, IL: Open Court, 2010) pp.3-13 (abstract)
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