Selected Work
Applying Coherence, Morality, and Utility Toward Developing Practical Wisdom
The evaluative framework in concentrated form, published through the University of Chicago's Center for Practical Wisdom. Read the article.
Book — Austin Macauley, 2025Developing Practical Wisdom
Runner-up, San Francisco Book Festival. The framework applied to cognition, motivation, ethics, and education for general readers. Visit the book site.
Continuous Dual-Aspect Panexperiential Monism
A new metaphysical position holding that reality consists of a single continuous experiential field. The combination problem dissolves when the discrete-unit assumption is removed. Departing from both constitutive panpsychism and neutral monism, CDAPM takes experience-as-responsiveness as the primitive and treats qualia as its organized forms at higher levels of complexity. Preprint available: Preprint
Operationalizing Practical Wisdom
The full academic treatment of the post-Rortian postrealist framework. Coherence, utility, and morality are proposed as epistemic standards when correspondence-based evaluation does not apply.
Book — In ProgressCommitment and Self-Determinism
Why intelligent, well-meaning people consistently fail to become the people they intend to be. Twelve chapters from identity formation through moral life.