Looking Back to Look Forward: Disability, Philosophers, and Activism
Philosophers have already been publicly engaged around COVID-19 in many ways through podcasts and writings aimed at broad audiences. This is not surprising, given...
Fatphobia, Women, and COVID-19
As of early July 2020, Googling “coronavirus obesity” brings up about 178 million results. For perspective, that’s 64 million more than “coronavirus chronic kidney...
Three Ways of Diversifying a Philosophy Syllabus
The current climate of soul-searching about race and racism has led to a wave of reactions among faculty at many universities. Numerous departments of...
Hearing Loss and Face Coverings
This post is a part of The COVID Chronicles series. This series is dedicated to giving voice to graduate student experiences and needs during...
Diversifying Tenure-Line Faculty
This is the third in a several part series discussing ways to improve diversity in philosophy departments. The other pieces can be found here.
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What Should Accommodations for Chronic Illness Look Like While We’re Online and After We...
This post is a part of The COVID Chronicles series. This series is dedicated to giving voice to graduate student experiences and needs during...
“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.
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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...