“The Writing Workshop”: Increasing Representation in Philosophy
It’s common in philosophy departments to have fewer women on faculty than men. In our Ph.D. granting institution (at least while we were there),...
Globalizing Political Theory and the Challenges of Making it Happen
The call to globalize and decolonize academia and to decenter European and North American political thought and philosophy within these fields is by now...
Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Reflections on Dragon Philosophy and Guerrilla Love with Kalonji Changa
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...
The Limitations of the Criminal Law’s Ability to Express the Value of Women
Feminist legal and political philosopher Jean Hampton was not alone when she argued in 1998 that gender-based violence is “perhaps the most important tool...
What’s In a Name? Rethinking CSW
On September 23, 2022 the APA hosted the first of three currently-planned panels on “The Status of ‘Women’ in the Committee on the Status...
Phenomenological Communicologist Jacqueline Martinez, Vice President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Jacqueline M. Martinez was recently elected to be the Vice-President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. This means, as of 2024, she will be the...
Sylvia Wynter and the Concept of the Homocene
What—or who—is responsible for the state of the planet? The “or who” suggests a distinction between two types of responsibility. One we may term...
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...
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...
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...