Romantic Love

“The Story of Romantic Love and Polyamory” with Lauren Weindling. Overthink Podcast, 2023 [Youtube Version]

*the above talk was crafted for an academic audience of specialists (presented at Pomona College), but the discussion may nevertheless be interesting to a wider audience.

See here for a brief interview about love with TorontoMet Today.

Hope & Despair

“Hope and Optimism: What’s the Difference?” Longitude Podcast, 2021 [Final Version]

“Threading the Needle: The Space Between Optimism and Despair” Psychology Today, 2021 [Final Version]

“Hope and Optimism.” published by the John Templeton Foundation, 2020. [Final Version]

*The above article is a 21,000+ word overview of recent scientific and philosophical research on hope and optimism. The emphasis is on work which was done as part of the Hope & Optimism Initiative. This review has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal (Finding Hope When Everything Feels Hopeless), Forbes (What Leaders Need To Know About The Difference Between Hope & Optimism), and Psychology Today (Hope for the Next Year and Beyond).

“Even When Optimism has been Lost, Hope has a Role to Play.” with Katie Stockdale. in Aeon (Psyche), 2020 [Final Version]

“Hope” with Katie Stockdale. 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, edited by Nathan Nobis, 2018. [Final Version]