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LaChanda Davis

LaChanda Davis is currently lecturer at San Francisco State University and California State University, East Bay. She teaches critical thinking, introduction to philosophy, and ethics. Her area of interest is...

Why Study Dead White Men?

It’s no secret that many revered and influential philosophers of the early and late modern periods were racists. They weren’t like many of the racists of today, employing dog whistles...

Where the Hell have Us White Philosophers Been? The Need for Peace, Love, and Racial Justice in Philosophy

This piece is dedicated to the memories and legacies of the late Charles Mills and Lonel Woods.  I miss you both dearly. “So now that we’re having people demonstrate in...

Colleen Murphy

Colleen Murphy is the Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Tweet...

Unnatural Bodies: Disability as Metaphysical Threat

When, in the immediate aftermath of World War Two, a group of eighteen German physicians who participated in the killing of more than fifty disabled children at Rothenburgsort Pediatric Hospital...

Doubt and Disability: Pedagogical Reflections on Public Philosophy

...philosophy is that it is when professional philosophers discuss issues that concern the public at large. Another, as the editor of the public philosophy beat on this blog, Ashley Bohrer,...

Emily S. Lee

Emily S. Lee is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at California State University at Fullerton. Her research interests include feminist philosophy, philosophy of race and phenomenology, especially the works of...

Alida Liberman

Alida Liberman is an associate professor of philosophy at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Her research is in theoretical ethics, practical ethics, and the space in between. You can...

Mistreatment of Pregnant Women in US Immigration Detention

In this post, I share the main findings of my research on the mistreatment of pregnant women in US immigration detention. I presented these results at the Biennial Conference of...

The Moral Case for the Development of Autonomous Weapon Systems

...of the near future are not morally autonomous in this sense. They inherit their goals from us. In a 2010 paper, Bradley J. Strawser offers a convincing argument in favor...