Monthly Archives: July, 2018

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Issues in Philosophy

Fat Female Philosophers

Blog Contributor -
by Anonymous How many fat female philosophers do you know? One day as I scrolled through my Instagram, my major path into the body positive...
Research

Black Issues in Philosophy: On Donna Jones’s The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy

Nathan Eckstrand -
by Lewis R. Gordon I have been reading the thought of Henri Bergson on a variety of issues of late.  Much is due to the...
Research

What Are You Reading…On Heroism and Community

Nathan Eckstrand -
One of the biggest stories of the last couple weeks has been the ongoing saga of the teenage soccer team trapped in a cave...
Issues in Philosophy

Philosophy by the Public: A Response to David Johnson

Blog Contributor -
David V. Johnson recently proposed a “vision of public philosophy” in a post for this blog. While this was a thoughtful article, containing a...
Teaching

Diversifying the Canon: Interview with Bryan W. Van Norden

Michaela Maxwell -
Bryan W. Van Norden is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor at Yale-NUS College and also professor of philosophy at Vassar College.  He is...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Women in Philosophy: Online Misogyny and Our Profession

Adriel M. Trott -
By Cassie Herbert This winter anonymous commenters on a philosophy blog wanted to ridicule a ‘liberal’ professor. In order to do this, they wrote about...
Research

Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times

Nathan Eckstrand -
This year's Central APA featured an author-meets critics session on Alexis Shotwell's new book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. Below, I interview...
Issues in Philosophy

Politics and Appointments

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A widely accepted principle of academic ethics is that candidates for appointments should not be asked questions that do not bear on performance...
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