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Black Issues in Philosophy: An Interview with Donna Edmonds Mitchell

by Hanli Chu       Donna Edmonds Mitchell was an inspirational poet and storyteller who was a Perry Clan Descendant of the Pocasset Wampanoag Peoples.  She joined...
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Women in Philosophy: Intersectionality and the Importance of Poetics for Feminist Philosophy

by Robin James In her 2008 article “re-thinking intersectionality,” Jennifer Nash argues that feminist theory’s enthusiastic adoption of intersectionality has been continually undercut by its...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: A South African Philosopher’s Intellectual and Political Journey

Mabogo P. More is one of South Africa’s great living philosophers. His life and thought, as recounted in Looking through Philosophy in Black: Memoirs,...
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Women in Philosophy: Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher: Can I Contest an Editorial Decision?

by Jennifer Lackey The Women in Philosophy series is running a mini-series called "Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher." The first installment was posted last summer....
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Gordon and Da Silva on Brazil and Africana Philosophy

This interview previously appeared in a special issue of EntreLetras Journal. I offer its reprint here in light of the recent elections in Brazil,...
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Women in Philosophy: Philosophy’s Excluded Within

by Sina Kramer I was invited to speak to my current book, which Jane Anna Gordon reviewed in the "Black Issues in Philosophy" series here...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Africana Philosophy and Depression

by Dana Francisco Miranda The white world, the only honorable one, barred me from all participation. A man was expected to behave like a man....
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Women in Philosophy: Feminism and the F-Bomb

by Leigh M. Johnson This past September, Judge (now Justice) Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in a bid for confirmation to...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Anthony J. Steinbock’s Moral Emotions

by Lewis R. Gordon Phenomenology, Maurice Natanson often reminded us, is an infinite task of beginnings, of starting over, of re-doing—again and again. A critic...
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New Prize Competition: Diversifying Analytic Theology

Thanks to funding from the American Philosophical Association's Diversity and Inclusiveness Fund, the editors of the Journal of Analytic Theology are pleased to announce...