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I wrote a peer-reviewed paper that was published in the journal Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. The paper is titled “Grand Narratives, Metamodernism, and Global Ethics.”

The journal’s webpage for my work is available here.

The journal is open-access, so you can download a pdf of my paper here.

Here is my paper’s abstract:

“Some philosophers contend that to effectively address problems such our global environmental crisis, humans must collectively embrace a polyphonic, environmentalist grand narrative, very different from the narratives accepted by modernists. Cultural theorists who write about metamodernism likewise discuss the recent return to a belief in narratives, and contend that our society’s current approach to narratives is very different from that of the modernists. In this paper, I articulate these philosophers’ and cultural theorists’ positions, and I highlight and explore interconnections between them. Additionally, I argue that if the authors I discuss are correct, then we morally ought to embrace a metamodernist, polyphonic, environmentalist grand narrative, in order to effectively address an array of global crises. Such a grand narrative is a necessary ingredient of an adequate global ethics.”