American Women Philosophers in the Speculative Tradition: Beyond Analytic and Continental Philosophy
Dozens of women from the speculative philosophical tradition worked in American academia during the first half of the twentieth century and yet have been...
Interview with New Associate Editor of the Women in Philosophy Series
The Women in Philosophy series at the APA blog would like to thank Adriel Trott for serving as Editor of the series from 2018...
Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Sanskrit philosophy for philosophy today
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...
Coffee and Communism
Marxism and communism are often seen in many countries as malevolent boogeymen that cast a shadow throughout the Euromodern world, topics we shouldn’t discuss....
Distrust, Privilege, and the Quest for Invulnerability
Distrust has become a hot topic in the North American media landscape as of late. A cursory online search brings up countless articles urgently...
The Blacker the Madness: The Balmy Methodologies of La Marr Jurelle Bruce
“I shall be derelict. I leave methods to the botanists and the mathematicians. There is a point at which methods devour themselves.”
Frantz Fanon, Black...
Irigaray and Contemporary Feminist Politics
The famous militant feminist slogan from the 1970s, “the future is female,” experienced a resurgence recently following signs of the rolling back of important...
Understanding Neurodiversity, Unlearning Neuronormativity
April is autism acceptance month. Truly accepting autism requires both understanding neurodiversity and unlearning neuronormativity. The discussion that follows aims to provide some steps...
For Modernity: A Review of Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously delivers a clearly-articulated and well-supported defense of its eponymous thesis. It should come as no surprise...
Witches and ‘Welfare Queens’: The Construction of Women as Threats in the Anti-Abortion Movement
While today’s anti-abortion movement has been empowered by the recent fall of Roe v. Wade, the original ‘right-to-life’ movement dates to the mid-nineteenth century....