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“What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series (2023)
Journal Article

Linda Zagzebski's theory of moral exemplarity emphasizes the importance of admiration in developing ethical behavior. This essay argues that admiration involves wonder and distance and is best evoked by mixed or flawed characters; it demonstrates thi... Read More about “What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series.

Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication (2023)
Journal Article

The aim of the current research was to explore whether we can improve the recognition of cross-cultural freely-expressed emotional faces in British participants. We tested several methods for improving the recognition of freely-expressed emotional fa... Read More about Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication.

Richard Wagner (2023)
Book Chapter

The article considers what Richard Wagner contributed to the understanding of suffering and the problem of evil in the ten stage works of his 'canon' (The Flying Dutchman to Parsifal).

Proximate and Ultimate Concerns in Christian Ethical Responses to Artificial Intelligence (2023)
Journal Article

I argue here that Christian ethical responses to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ought to take on, largely, two different approaches. The first considers proximate ethical concerns related to AI. This ethical approach most often considers more immediate... Read More about Proximate and Ultimate Concerns in Christian Ethical Responses to Artificial Intelligence.

Unbiased individual unconsciousness: Rationale, replication and developing applications (2023)
Journal Article

“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness (2023)
Journal Article

Sadness has typically been associated with failure, defeat and loss, but it has also been suggested that sadness facilitates positive and restructuring emotional changes. This suggests that sadness is a multi-faceted emotion. This supports the idea t... Read More about “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness.

The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information (2023)
Journal Article

An ontology of information belies our common intuitions about reality today and animates and governs both explicit scholarly study in philosophy and the sciences as well as the ideologies that are growing out of them. Transhumanism is one such techno... Read More about The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information.