Black Issues in Philosophy: The Day Botswana Stopped Being an African Country
by Olúfẹmi Táíwò
On June 11, this year, the Lobatse High Court in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, returned a verdict in an appeal case that reverberated...
Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher: Dealing with Unwelcome or Inappropriate Attention
The Women in Philosophy series is running a mini-series called “Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher.” The first installment was posted last August, the second in December, and the...
The Question of Revolutionary Responsibility and Erica Burman’s Fanon, Education, Action
by Nigel Gibson
What I want to present here is a part of a larger ongoing discussion of the centrality of Frantz Fanon’s work as...
Women in Philosophy: Joan Callahan (1946-2019)
by Kate Norlock
We note with sadness the death of Joan Callahan (1946-2019). Joan was Emerita Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. She...
Black Issues in Philosophy: Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite—the famed Caribbean poet, historian and philosopher—is one of this year’s recipients of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Guillén Lifetime Achievement Award. Unable...
Women in Philosophy: Feeling Whole: Recovering from Pregnancy and Childbirth
by Sara Protasi
On the day I am writing this post, my youngest child turns three. It’s been three years since I birthed her, and...
Extraordinary Racial Politics: Four Events in the Informal Constitution of the United States Discussed...
by Carol Gray
On April 5, 2019, eighty students and faculty at the University of Connecticut participated in a discussion between University of Connecticut’s Fred...
Who Shall We Invite? Improving Department Research Seminar Invitation Practices
Most departments have regular research seminars, usually weekly during term-time with an invited speaker, who talks for about an hour, followed by another hour...
Women in Philosophy: Who Cares About Women in the History of Philosophy?
by Sarah Tyson
The place of women in the history of philosophy tends to be most interesting to people who already have an interest in...
For/giving and Other Existential Challenges in Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana
by Lewis R. Gordon
The English translation of Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana comes to print this year through Rowman & Littlefield International’s Creolizing the Canon series.
To say that this...