Neil Sinhababu is quite possibly the worlds coolest philosopher. His first paper, Possible Girls, uses modal realism to argue that everybody has a soulmate in an alternative world. Though his specialty focus is metaethics, Nietzsche, and Nietzschean metaethics, he also publishes in many weirdly unrelated fields like metaphysics and epistemology. He is perhaps most known for being a travelling professor, having given more talks than any philosopher under the age of 40, including over a hundred in the last year alone.

Besides being a professor in a tweed jacket, Neil is in many other ways the epitome of a liberal cosmopolitan globalist. An American who lives and works in Singapore, Neil is a globetrotter who nonetheless finds the time to participate in American politics. After a long days work, you can often find him in parties, a glass of wine in one hand and gesticulating madly with the other, corrupting the youth with utilitarian ideals and some pretty weird ideas .

I sat down with him to talk about possible girls, the uses (or lack thereof) of philosophy in todays world, and his new book, Humean Nature.