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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Lost Women of Early Analytic Philosophy
As new histories of early analytic philosophy and its pre-history begin to appear, there is a striking absence of female names. For example, the...
Charles Mills: On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy
This post was originally published on The Philosopher as part of a series of essays and interviews on the life and philosophy of Charles...
The Five Lives of Raya Dunayevskaya: Sources of Intersectional Marxism
The history of women thinkers is marked by enforced obsolescence, especially once male counterparts start working in the same terrain. Think of Hypatia or...
Incomplete Categories and Peripheries of Thought: Where is Philosophy From?
Some time since I moved to the United States, my home country, Turkey, shifted its geographic location, and so did my relation to the...