Diversity and Inclusiveness

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Navigating (Living) Philosophy: From Black Experience to a Philosophy of Freedom

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...
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Germaine de Staël’s Philosophy and Politics

The canon of the history of philosophy has been repeatedly criticized for its lack of diversity by Eileen O’Neill, Charles Mills, and others. In...
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Metabolic & Modal in White Reconstruction

By definition, security means the freedom from danger, fear, and anxiety. —Safiya Bukhari, The War Before Stephen closed his eyes to hear...
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Revealing Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

Margaret A. Burnham’s poignant, innovative, and meticulously researched book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, brings to the fore an open American...
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#WomanLifeFreedom: How Digital Technologies Enable Transnational Solidarity for Iran’s Feminist Uprising

#WomanLifeFreedom: How Digital Technologies Enable Transnational Solidarity for Iran’s Feminist Uprising An unprecedented feminist uprising in Iran has been ongoing since September 16th, 2022. This...
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Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Letter to Beginning Philosophy Students

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...
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A Simple Argument for Why Science Should Be for the Oppressed

Co-Editor’s Note: I composed the following short essay for an asynchronous online summer course in Philosophy of Science. The course is centered around presenting...
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The Body Problem and the Climate Crisis

Students of Anglo-European philosophy might be familiar with the “mind-body problem.” The problem originates with early seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, who...
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Strong Black Nihilism and Existential Maturity: On Devon Johnson

Some books are so rich that it is difficult to articulate an entry point for discussion; any choice of a starting point seems to...
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Sugar Babies: When “Feminism” Looks Like Online Misogyny

In 2019, the dating website Seeking.com reported having 365 University of Edinburgh students registered as members. Seeking.com is not just any dating platform. It’s...