Why Functional Contextualism Might Be the Most Useful Philosophy You’ve Never Heard Of

A few nights ago, my wife asked me a simple question:

“So Functional Contextualism… it’s a philosophy? What are the four main points?”

I froze.

I’ve used this philosophy for years, taught it, supervised with it, applied it in work and life—but explaining it in a clean, everyday way? That’s harder than it sounds.

So I set out to write the answer I wished I h…