Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog
by Lewis R. Gordon
Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (Columbia UP, 2018) addresses a fundamental feature of racism—namely, the idea of the...
The Fantasy of Normalcy: Neoliberalism, the Family, and the New Right
by Cinzia Arruzza
In a comment published in New York Magazine in 2018, Andrew Sullivan warns the LGBT movement against its leftist “excesses,” which run...
On the Mystical Logic of Howard Thurman
by Darian Spearman
I first would like to thank Dr. Anthony Neal for his work explicating the philosophical elements of Howard Thurman’s work. I had...
The Assisted Reproduction of Race
by Camisha Russell
In 2009, I was just starting to outline what would become my first book, The Assisted Reproduction of Race. I wanted to...
Graduate Students on Diversity and Inclusivity in Philosophy
Many philosophers recognize that the field has a “gender problem,” and maybe even a “race problem,” but I have come to believe that it...
LaRose Parris’s Being Apart as a Contribution to Existential Phenomenology
There are certain books that make a significant impact upon initial reading but that, over the course of time, reveal themselves to have had...
Monnica, The Patron Saint of Mothers of Disappointing Children (i.e. Philosophers)
by Patricia Grosse
The first mention of St. Monnica in Stephen Greenblatt’s The New Yorker article “How St. Augustine Invented Sex” occurs in the second...
Philosophical Methodologies of Critical Race Theory
by Richard A. Jones
Critical Race Theory (CRT), in its most influential form, was initiated at Harvard Law School by Derrick Bell’s early critique of...
Women in Philosophy: Cramblett, Race, Disability, and Liberatory Politics
by Desiree Valentine
In October of 2014, news outlets began reporting on a case of a lesbian couple suing a sperm bank for receiving the...
On Philosophical Scholarship of Gender: A Response to “12 Leading Scholars”
Editor's note: The letter below was penned in response to another letter titled “Philosophers Should Not Be Sanctioned Over Their Positions on Sex and...