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Jeezy’s Lessons from Adversity

...more generally speaking. The book provides a glimpse into a rich body of knowledge, which could be referred to as “Hood Philosophy,” otherwise known as “street smarts” or “street knowledge.”...

International Women’s Day Profile: María Jesús Alvarado Rivera

...is committed to amplifying diverse voices in philosophy. If you or someone you know has research that the APA community should know about, send us a pitch. María Jesús Alvarado...

May We Execute Even the Worst Murderers?

...justice of Bowers’ sentence. For some, his execution is the only punishment appropriate to the overwhelming evil of eleven antisemitic murders. Life in prison would be far too lenient for...

Tendayi Sithole’s Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology in Azania

Mabogo Percy More is a philosopher who describes his work as “Azanian Africana existential philosophy” (110). Born in 1946, More was one of the few Black professors of philosophy during...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy

...a political philosopher, placing her work in conversation with feminist philosophy, decolonial philosophy, and Marxism. In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Davis discusses Weil’s practical approach to philosophy, the role...

A Feminist Critique of Moral Particularism

...concrete avenue for the oppressed to advocate for themselves. The Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on those excluded in the history of philosophy on the basis of gender injustice,...

Lisa Guenther

Lisa Guenther is Queen’s National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies. She is the author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (2013) and The Gift of...

APA Member Interview: Zeinab Rabii

...Missouri and Westminster College. Soon she will be teaching a course on Islamic philosophy at Westminster College. Her research interests are in epistemology, ethics, philosophy of action, and Islamic philosophy....

Charles Johnson’s All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End

...and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from SUNY Stony Brook. In short, Johnson can be said to be one of the most accomplished recipients of a doctorate in Philosophy in the...

A conversation with Susan Neiman and friends around anti-fascist organizing

...of the “politics of the encounter” and the building of the “worldship” – calls the “ecological fracture.” That is the splitting off of humanistic philosophy from ecological philosophy and its...