Black Issues in Philosophy: Interview of Alan Pelaez Lopez
By Brooks Kirchgassner
Alan Pelaez Lopez is a PhD student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Lopez’s preferred third-person...
Women in Philosophy: Southern Black Feminism in Philosophy
By Lindsey Stewart
When I mention to fellow conference participants in various philosophy circles that I work on Zora Neale Hurston, I often get a...
Black Issues in Philosophy: A Citadel of the Ideal
By Anthony Sean Neal
Faculties at Black colleges and universities or HBCU’s often used philosophical thought to respond to the problem(s) they found to...
Women in Philosophy: Notes from philoSOPHIA Conference 2018
By Jennifer Scuro
The academy is risk-averse.
Joy James, philoSOPHIA 2018 keynote speaker
It might be too ambitious of me to imagine that, for those of us who...
Questioning the Language of Service
During my tenure at St. Olaf and other colleges, there has always been a lot of earnest talk about “giving back,” “serving others,” “working...
Black Issues in Philosophy: A Conversation on Get Out
Having recently viewed Jordan Peele’s award-winning Get Out (2017), political theorist Derefe Kimarley Chevannes was prompted to discuss the film with philosopher Lewis Gordon,...
Tell Us How to Fix the Lack of Diversity in Philosophy Journals
Philosophy departments in the U.S. and Britain are famously homogenous. You already know that. What you might not know is that mainstream Anglophone philosophy...
Black Issues in Philosophy: The African Decolonial Thought of Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí
By Lewis Gordon
As the history of philosophy shows, its major developments often come from thinkers who were not formally trained as philosophers. Among the...
Black Issues in Philosophy: Losing Ground as Existential Reflection on Philosophy
“The aesthetic moment is, so to speak, after the fact.”
Losing Ground (1982) is a film about a black female philosophy professor. It is among...
Black Issues in Philosophy: A Conversation on The Black Panther
Prior to the release of The Black Panther, some well-intentioned whites on social media recommended whites to wait a week before going to see the...