Food and Stories in Ireland, with Wind&Bones
This September, I'm in Ireland at the Waterford Harvest Festival
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Philosophy, Writing and Wayward Curiosities from Will Buckingham
Playing with Prognostications
This paper was written for the 2022 Yijing World Summit Forum. It’s about play and divination, and it won the 2022 first prize for essays on the Yijing (优秀易经论文一等奖). This is a draft of the paper that I gave remotely at the 2022 Yijing World …
Bootleg Copies of my Book are Available in Iran, and I’m Okay With That
For all the divisiveness of global politics, books have the power to connect
Divination and love in the Symposium
I’m intrigued by this definition of divination from Plato’s Symposium 188 c-d, as a practice of producing loving affection between gods and human being, or the science of the effects of love on justice and piety: Consider further the …
7 Ways of Reading Philosophy #5: Reading While Drunk
Is drunkenness the enemy of philosophical sobriety? Or are there circumstances where drunkenness can make our philosophical insight more acute?
Happy Paperback Publication Day to Hello, Stranger
My book, Hello, Stranger, is now out in paperback.
Philosophy, History, Culture and Identity in Chin State
I've been working on a new syllabus for the Chinbridge Institute in Chin State
Lucretius on Chance, Necessity and Free Will
Lucretius, the Roman poet and philosopher, on free will, creativity and the mysterious swerve of an atom.