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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...