Notes on the Limitations of Strategic Philanthropy

While there are benefits to strategic grantmaking, organizations should beware of taking the trend too far. As Scanlon concludes about the Public Welfare Foundation's adoption of a strictly strategic approach to philanthropy, "We threw the PWF baby -- and many of its best qualities -- out with the bathwater.

Ideas of the Good in Moral and Political Philosophy

Article to accompany the Routledge Lecture in Philosophy entitled "Value in Morality and Politics", given at the University of Cambridge, March 15, 2011

Lascar and Morley ranks differ in differentially closed fields

We note here, in answer to a question of Poizat, that the Morley and Lascar ranks need not coincide in differentially closed fields. We approach this through the (perhaps) more fundamental issue of the variation of Morley rank in families