Tree diagrams are an intellectual tool for organizing ideas. My main article explaining them is Discussion Trees. I also made a tree about making idea trees and wrote Tracking Discussions. Organizing ideas is important to Paths Forward. Potential critics need to be able to understand what your claims are and

In Think and Philosophy: What For?, I introduce philosophy in small parts (slides or short webpages with a continue button) instead of as a big article. Both emphasize fallibility: we will inevitably make mistakes, so we need philosophical thinking (including criticism) to help us find and fix mistakes.

I wrote a Philosophy Outline with three sections: reason, morality and liberalism. Then I had two assistants find links, primarily to my writing, that explain the ideas in the outline. You can use it to help learn about my philosophy. Review the outline to see topics and then click links

Paths Forward is an original Critical Fallibilism idea about approaching discussion and ideas rationally. That way, if you’re mistaken, and another person knows the mistake and is willing to tell you, there is a good way (path) for your error to be corrected (which moves your ideas forward to

Liberalism: Reason, Peace and Property is one of my favorite articles. I wrote over 20 separate draft articles about liberalism, then took my best ideas and explanatory approaches and used them for the final article. I wrote the most drafts about the harmony of men’s interests, which was the

I particularly value my article on Lying. I find people are often confused about how to judge what is or isn’t a lie, and about how to avoid lying. So I wrote an article to explain it. Lying is a routine part of social interaction. Many lies are motivated

Tutoring MaxI helped Max learn philosophy by incrementally building up his skills. Most of it is relevant to everyone. One of my focuses was explaining practice activities that could be used to make progress alone, outside of tutoring sessions. I was paid for this tutoring. Some of the topics are

These are my favorite videos from my curi YouTube channel.

My Fallible Ideas essays explain philosophy ideas. Themes include reason, knowledge creation, parenting, relationships and tradition. My Fallible Ideas for Life collection focuses more on using my philosophy to offer practical advice for living your life.