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 applies to cognition, motivation, ethics, and education for general readers. Visit the book site.
Manuscript — Under SubmissionOperationalizing 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.
Identity as Trajectory: A Pragmatic Ontology of Use, Time, and Continuity
A sustained philosophical argument that identity is not an essence but a trajectory: the accumulated pattern of uses, organized by context and practice, that a thing traces through time. The framework applies to formal systems, concepts, and persons alike.
Radical Rortyism: Dual-Domain Neopragmatism and the Architecture of Evaluation
Advances what Rorty began. DDN replaces the correspondence theory of evaluation with a three-dimensional architecture: coherence, utility, and morality as co-required conditions. Morality is constitutive of evaluation, not a cultural achievement added to it.
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: PDF