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Epistemic Solidarity and Deference: Necessities and Limitations

In her concession speech, Vice President Kamala Harris invoked one of the principles of solidarity when she encouraged Americans to continue fighting for the...
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Blame and Dread

The capacity for the practice of blaming roots itself deep in the core of the human condition. “Core” here should be understood as, in...
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Remarks Upon Receiving the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award

Note from the editors: These remarks were composed by Dr. Marcos in Spanish and delivered at the awards ceremony of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s...
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Remembering Robert L. Allen

This past July, Robert L. Allen passed away at 82. As an undergraduate student, Allen had a very large impact on me. I took...
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To be made a Martyr or a Minstrel: Lessons from Aesthetic Theory on Academic...

Introduction: What’s love got to do with it “Philosophy doesn’t love me, just the idea of me,” This was the opening line to a presentation I...
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An Anarchist Politics of Land: The Importance of Klee Benally

In 2023, shortly before his death, Klee Benally published No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred, a book of emancipatory thought...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About “Personhood”: A Critical Review of Menkti’s...

In the recently published Menkiti’s Moral Man, Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe defends the late Ifeanyi Menkiti’s communitarian theory of personhood. According to this theory, “A...
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Queerness, Decolonization, and Ontological Suspension: A Brief Sketch

What contribution can philosophy make to queer and anticolonial politics? While answers are myriad, a significant number of philosophers have responded to this question...
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The Intersection of Black, Caribbean, and Deaf Communities: An Interview with Dr. Derefe Chevannes

Originally from Jamaica, Dr. Chevannes is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. Dr. Chevannes’s research surrounds the intersection of...
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Social Processes and Shifting Existential Burdens: A Nietzschean Reading of Zora Neale Hurston’s African-American...

Mules carry other people’s burdens. Zora Neale Hurston's third book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, describes the condition of being a mule. They are...