I'm pleased to have more to report this year than the last several, not necessarily because I did more—although I suspect I did—but because what I've been doing has begun to appear in the world.
First of all, as I've been banging on about for the last several weeks, A Philosopher Reads... Marvel Comics' Daredevil: From the Beginning to Born Again (the third in the series) was published on December 21 by Ockham Publishing. You can see more details about it here, and I posted a few times at Psychology Today (mostly drawn from the last two chapters focusing on his mental state, not the earlier ethics material):
- How Much Should You Question the Value of What You Do?
- Why You Should Be Careful How Much Responsibility You Take
- Matt Murdock's Identity Crisis: To Be or Not To Be Daredevil
- Even a Superhero Can Cycle Between Delirium and Despair
Also, my friends at the Seize the Moment Podcast had me on once again, and we covered a lot (with most of the good points made by the guys who weren't me, of course):
Second, Rights versus Antitrust: Challenging the Ethics of Competition Law will be published by Agenda Publishing in February—a book I've been trying to write for years but it took the right approach together with the right publisher to make it happen. Expect to hear much more about this after the new year, but in the meantime you can see more details about it here.
Third, I have all but finished work on the second edition of The Virtues of Captain America: I submitted the corrected proofs and revised index just before Christmas, and the book is scheduled to be published next summer (just a few months over ten years after the first edition). Not only did I revise the entire manuscript, adding new examples where useful, but I also added two new substantial sections on the recent "Secret Empire" episode—one of how Steve Rogers's moral character was affected by the Hydra brainwashing and the other on how "Hydra-Cap" illustrates various aspects of fascism—and a new half-chapter on Sam Wilson's time so far as Captain America, examining how his approach to the job compares to Steve's.
On a related note, I also resumed work on The Virtues of Captain America Blog in late September, after putting it on hold a year ago to work on the book, posting weekly since. (This is a more manageable pace, I've found, allowing me to comfortably get ahead of schedule and not feel rushed.)
In terms of shorter work, I was also happy to see a handbook chapter published—“A Kantian Perspective on Teaching Ethics to Economists,” in Ioana Negru, Craig Duckworth, and Imko Meyenburg (eds), Handbook of Teaching Ethics to Economists: A Plurality of Perspectives (Edward Elgar)—as well as my review of Samuel Hollander's Immanuel Kant and Utilitarian Ethics in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
In terms of the day job, the less said the better: I have three more semesters to go as department chair and then three more years as a full-time teacher until my retirement in 2028 (thirty years after I began).
In cheerier academic news, I was honored to be invited back to my undergraduate alma mater, Ohio Northern University (class of '93), to give two lectures in March (thanks to my former professor and dean Rich Meininger who whispered about me in the organizers' ears after hearing they wanted someone interdisciplinary).
As 2024 begins, I move on to other projects full-time. (If any of my very patient editors are reading this, I assure you that yours is my top priority!) Whatever your 2024 plans are, I wish you well in their pursuit, and I'll have more updates as more of my work sees the light of day.
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