Decolonizing Faith: Frantz Fanon, Liberation Theology, and the Struggle for Dignity
Introduction
Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) and Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928–2024), both thinkers from the Global South, emerged from distinct geopolitical margins and intellectual traditions shaped by the...
Changing the Way We Teach Formal Philosophy
Which non-living philosopher do you identify with most? This question was posed to professional philosophers on the 2020 PhilPapers survey of philosophers (“For which...
Julia Kristeva’s Philosophical Revolutions
My title riffs on the article penned by Kelly Oliver called “Julia Kristeva’s Feminist Revolutions” in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, which aimed...
What Are Oppressive Acts? Conceptual Engineering and Pornography
Criticisms of inegalitarian pornography (which I will call "pornography" hereafter for brevity)—or what Ann Eaton defines as “sexually explicit representations that as a whole...
Separate But Equal Cosmologies?
Brown University physics professor Stephon Alexander strikes one as an amazing cosmologist. He has written a book, The Jazz of Physics, that describes the...
Staving Off and Serving Up Inventions
Saturday Morning Lessons
My mother’s employment for as long as I can remember was that of a home attendant, also known as a "home health...
Is it Possible to be a Feminist and a Confucian Without Marginalization or Contradiction?
I am a trained philosopher and have taught philosophy full-time in college classrooms for nearly 24 years. Like many tenured full professors in our...
Progress For All Humanity?
This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with Filosofía...
Playful Resistance: Gender Norms as Games
The second Trump administration's attack on trans people is in full swing. Within hours of taking office for the second time, the president signed...
Richard T. Greener and the Abolitionist Moment in American Philosophy
On the first anniversary of the hanging of John Brown, December 3, 1860, abolitionists from Boston and around the country assembled in Tremont Temple...