Public Philosophy

Toward Greater Neuroinclusion in Philosophy

Consider the following aspects of the academic experience in our philosophy departments. For example, consider some common pedagogical practices we as teachers may integrate...

Eligible to Travel? Who Knows?

My younger self was struck by seeing tourists in movies, zipping from one country to another. I wondered: When did they find the time...

Doubt and Disability: Pedagogical Reflections on Public Philosophy

Most of us have had the experience of teaching Introduction to Philosophy and, in that capacity, of teaching the ball of wax example from...
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The absurdity and necessity of rules during war

During the invasion of Ukraine, we have heard frequently terms like ‘war crime’ and ‘just war’. In a fight to the death, when your...

The State of Climate Exception

In the two decades since the enactment of the Patriot Act, the concept of the “state of exception” has become common parlance in the...

Epistemic Injustice and Psychotherapy

(The following post is based on my talk, Epistemic Injustice in Psychotherapy, which was part of an APA Eastern symposium on Agency and Epistemic...
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Mistreatment of Pregnant Women in US Immigration Detention

In this post, I share the main findings of my research on the mistreatment of pregnant women in US immigration detention. I presented these...

The Moral Case for the Development of Autonomous Weapon Systems

This blog post is a summary of a longer paper that is forthcoming in the Journal of Military Ethics. Thank you to the journal’s...

Luxemburg, Lenin, and Sankara on National Self-Determination

Introduction—National Self-Determination and the Contemporary Conjuncture The questions of nationalism and national self-determination present a highly polarized contradiction within the global conjuncture. The tension of...

Survival and Self in Audre Lorde (on her birthday)

In her poem “Sacrifice,” Black feminist poet Audre Lorde (1934–1992) gives words of warning about inheritance and the transmission of knowledge across generations: Unless we...