Monthly Archives: July, 2018

Fat Female Philosophers

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...

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

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...

What Are You Reading…On Heroism and Community

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

Philosophy by the Public: A Response to David Johnson

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

Diversifying the Canon: Interview with Bryan W. Van Norden

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...

Women in Philosophy: Online Misogyny and Our Profession

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...

Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times

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...

Politics and Appointments

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