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Loneliness and Philosophy: An Interview with Dr Ben Lazare Mijuskovic

...Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California at San Diego. In a long and distinguished career, he has published a number of major works on philosophy and loneliness such...

Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse

Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse is an Assistant professor of Philosophy at Southwestern University. Her academic focus includes critical philosophy of race, feminism, and decolonial philosophies, particularly engaging with Black feminist and Apartheid...

On the Several Shapes of Loneliness

...beneficial? In what follows, I will suggest that philosophy can help answer this question by clarifying the different meanings of loneliness and assessing their appropriateness in specific contexts. Briefly put,...

Sexism, Inattention, and Moral Responsibility

...off the hook, not just because they don’t have to change but because they aren’t even blameworthy for not changing. The Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on those excluded...

“I Can See Your Gender”: Givenness at the Paris Olympics

...a fact? And is seeing the same thing as knowing? In a key text of analytic philosophy, “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind” (EPM), Wilfrid Sellars argues against what is...

On and Off in Life and Death

...done the same or better for Heidegger—which means I can save myself the trouble of reading Heidegger; I can just read Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton University...

APA Member Interview: Ding

Ding works in feminist political philosophy, social metaphysics, and philosophy of law. They are currently finishing their PhD at the University of Arizona. Their dissertation explores the often-unexpected ways in...

The Invader, Self-Knowledge: Four Science Fiction Films that Intuit the Human Future. Part 2:  Annihilation and I Am Mother

...Lena tell the story of her expedition in flashback. She hopes to find her husband there, who has disappeared there on an earlier foray. Lena leads a team of women...

Philosophy Meets the Gendertrash from Hell

...Although demographic information about trans participation in philosophy programs is incomplete, surveys have indicated that fewer than 1 percent of intended philosophy majors and philosophy Ph.D. recipients self-identified as transgender...

Questioning Questions

...underperformance of women in high-level math classes following Larry Summers’ comments about women in STEM. (It’s worth noting that Summers himself said he was merely exploring hypotheses and that he...