“Is America Possible?”: Protest, Pandemic, and Planetary Possibility
This is a revised version of a June 13, 2020 lecture delivered at the Global Center for Advanced Studies.
The title of this article announces...
Frances Power Cobbe and Nineteenth-Century Moral Philosophy
Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) was an Anglo-Irish reformer who wrote about moral theory and moral epistemology, religion, evolution, duties to animals, feminism, welfare, mind...
Working from the Outside In: Diversifying a Philosophy Department by working with College-level and...
This is the second piece in a several part series discussing ways to improve diversity in philosophy departments. The other pieces can be found...
Toward Creolizing Schooling
The project of creolizing education emerged from concerns with the failures of U.S. public schooling as a public good. Many argue and assume that...
‘Black Lives Matter’ as Identity Politics and Class Struggle
“Daddy changed the world!” Gigi Floyd, daughter of George Floyd, smiled broadly as she shouted this out loud at a Black Lives Matter protest...
Diversity in Philosophy Departments: Introduction
This is the first in a several part series discussing ways to improve diversity in philosophy departments. The other parts can be found here.
At...
Doing Trans Philosophy as Public Philosophy
While doing research on trans-inclusive policies at the Five Colleges in Massachusetts, one of us (Perry Zurn) stumbled across a document referencing an old...
Why We Forget
We live in a country whose population has not acquired the habit of taking historical memory seriously…. But histories never leave us for another...
Mitigating the Harms: Policy Possibilities under the New Title IX Rule
On May 6, the federal government released its final rule under Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972. Already, commentators have noted that...
Is Harvey Weinstein blameworthy? A feminist logic of blame
In March of 2020, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of criminal sexual assault and rape. Prosecutors cited his “lifetime of abuse” and “lack of...