Edith Stein: multi-species empathy, being-toward-extinction, and collective grief
My interest in the philosophy of Edith Stein arose while I was teaching a philosophy course on death where the final third of the...
Rising Up and Living on with Catherine Walsh
Catherine E. Walsh’s Rising Up, Living On: Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks (Duke UP, 2023) is, on the one hand, a report on the...
Early Feminist Critiques of Kant’s Gendered Ideal of Human Progress
I am currently working on a book that examines how the gendered nature of Kant’s vision of the Enlightenment was challenged by several female...
In Defense of the CROWN Act
Material in this article reproduces previously published research by the author. This research appears in: Amir Jaima, “In Defense of the Crown Act,” Philosophia 51,...
Anti-Nuclear Anti-Colonial Feminism
Nuclear has long been debated in terms of intergenerational justice. The rise of nuclear environmentalism that presents nuclear energy as the solution to decarbonize...
Self-Invention, Worldmaking, and the Struggle for Another Revolutionary Event: A Review Essay of Jean...
In my estimation, the beauty that lies in existentialist thought manifests itself as a truthful, bare encounter with reality, and with it, an appraisal—in...
A Feminist Critique of Moral Particularism
Moral Particularism
In metaethics, moral particularism is the view that moral reasoning is too context-sensitive to be guided by overarching principles. Traditional work in ethics...
James Africanus Beale Horton: Racism and the Fate of Naturalism in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology
There has been a recent increase in interest in the place of race in the writings of modern canonical European philosophers (e.g., in Locke,...
Meditations on Africatown, Part 2: On Cultivating Liberatory Fields of Vision
Part one of this post can be found here.
I visited the Africatown Heritage House for the first time a short while ago. The new...
Navigating (Living) Philosophy: (Re)Philosophizing Race/ism, Humanity, & Journeying to the Future
This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...