Wright's Writing

Here's a paper from my undergraduate days, which you might find mildly interesting in its outline (and critique) of both Kantian and...

[From 2009.] I’m reading Thomas Nagel’s famous book The View From Nowhere (1986). Nagel seems more sensible than most contemporary...

[Excerpt from this book.] There are delights and dangers in adopting a broad perspective on oneself and one’s society. Looking at the...

[From an email.] Jerry Coyne does not impress me [in this talk], although at least he seems less irrational and annoying than Daniel Dennett. Surely he's right to be an incompatibilist on the issue of free will vs. determinism, since the idea of self-control (free will) manifestly contradicts the idea that one's acts are determined by factors outside one's control, such as environmental stimuli and neural impulses. [I.e., the scientific idea that causally determined molecular