Women in Philosophy: Hypatia: The Good Woman?
by Danielle A. Layne
This is not a post on Hypatia wherein I rehearse what most of us already know about the Neoplatonic philosopher and...
Women in Philosophy: Online Misogyny and Our Profession
By Cassie Herbert
This winter anonymous commenters on a philosophy blog wanted to ridicule a ‘liberal’ professor. In order to do this, they wrote about...
Women in Philosophy: The Ethical Call to Decolonize the Philosophical Canon
By Miranda Pilipchuk
“You go to women? Do not forget the whip!” I was an undergraduate philosophy major when I first read those infamous words...
Some Thoughts on Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas
By Lewis Gordon
Juliet Hooker is a political theorist in the Department of Political Science at Brown University. Her work focuses on the contradictions of...
Women in Philosophy: Minority Identities, “Minority Concerns”
By Tiffany Gordon
Most of my work is situated along the lines of my identity. It should not be surprising, then, that since I am...
On Diversifying the Classroom from Within: An Interview with Perry Zurn
Perry Zurn is Assistant Professor of philosophy at American University. He researches broadly in the fields of political philosophy, gender theory, and applied ethics, and his work contributes...
Black Issues in Philosophy: On Teaching Anna Julia Cooper’s “What Are We Worth” in...
By Thomas Meagher
Anna Julia Cooper begins her essay, “What Are We Worth?”—a chapter from her classic book A Voice from the South (1892), considered...
Women in Philosophy: The Work of the APA Graduate Student Council
By Zoë Johnson King
Graduate school in Philosophy can be hard, in many ways, for everyone. But some of the ways in which graduate school...
The Ugly Truth of Being a Black Professor in America
Editor’s Note: Some of the language used in this article is racially sensitive. The Blog of the APA is publishing it because we believe...
Women in Philosophy: Publishing Ethics in Philosophy
By Kris Sealey
I’m the lead PI on a Mellon grant to develop a code of ethics for publishing in philosophy. Our team came to...