Self-Invention, Worldmaking, and the Struggle for Another Revolutionary Event: A Review Essay of Jean...
In my estimation, the beauty that lies in existentialist thought manifests itself as a truthful, bare encounter with reality, and with it, an appraisal—in...
A Feminist Critique of Moral Particularism
Moral Particularism
In metaethics, moral particularism is the view that moral reasoning is too context-sensitive to be guided by overarching principles. Traditional work in ethics...
James Africanus Beale Horton: Racism and the Fate of Naturalism in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology
There has been a recent increase in interest in the place of race in the writings of modern canonical European philosophers (e.g., in Locke,...
Meditations on Africatown, Part 2: On Cultivating Liberatory Fields of Vision
Part one of this post can be found here.
I visited the Africatown Heritage House for the first time a short while ago. The new...
Navigating (Living) Philosophy: (Re)Philosophizing Race/ism, Humanity, & Journeying to the Future
This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...
Charles Johnson’s All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End
Charles Johnson is likely most well-known as a novelist, having won the National Book Award for The Middle Passage (1990) and later earning a...
Decolonizing Philosophy: The Contributions of Françoise Vergès
The call to decolonize philosophy is growing, and while this is a dense and robust demand, a vital maneuver of this commitment is to...
At the Intersection of Philosophy and International Relations, Souffrant’s Global Development Ethics
Eddy Souffrant, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, stands among the leading professional philosophers...
Philosophy of Mind Should Be a Feminist Place (And Here’s How)
Philosophy of mind and cognitive science is not yet a feminist place, but it should be. In the analytic tradition, philosophy of mind has...
Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Traditional Māori Knowledge and Post-qualitative Inquiry
This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalized shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...