Public Philosophy

Access and Relationality

What does it mean to have one’s disability access needs met? To answer this question, we need to know a few things—what are access...

Feminist Public Philosophy Beyond the Academy: An Interview with Amelia Hruby

Ashley Bohrer: Why don't you start by telling me a little bit about your philosophical background. What'd you study? Where’d you study it? What...

Savarin, Pelluchon, and the Gastronomic Ego

(Image taken by Masahiro Ihara) Many recent readers of jurist and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, including Carolyn Korsmeyer, Jessica Jacques, Roland Barthes, and Michel Onfray,...

The Global Fight for the Humanities: Why a Liberal Arts College in Singapore Matters

Last month—in a move that shocked unsuspecting students, faculty, and alumnae—Yale-NUS College announced that the Singaporean liberal arts college founded just ten years ago...
Charles Mills

Remembering Charles Mills

On September 21, Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center passed away. What followed underscored the immense impact that...

Copyright Infringement and Free Bread

Copyright infringement, although often regarded as theft, seems to be a rather strange kind of property infringement.  If I steal your car, or your...

How Climate Change Threatens Meaning in Life

It’s understandable that many discussions about the climate crisis focus on existential threats. Claims about human extinction combine the terrifying prospect of mass death...
Plan of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison

Using the ‘Plague Management Model’ to Understand The Panoptic Surveillance Amidst Coronavirus: A Foucauldian...

In Madness and Civilization (1961), Foucault discussed leprosy, an epidemic that troubled Europe profoundly. Although, with monitoring and isolating the population, leprosy vanished at the end...

Four Theses on Fake News

Fake news undermines free speech culture by impairing our ability to develop and express our thoughts. To fix the problem, we need to police...

Louisiana’s Idiosyncratic Economic Incentive Programs and Cancer/Death Alley

Industrial Ad Valorem Tax Exemption Program(ITEP) in Louisiana Recently, a UN Report vindicated claims of environmental racism in Louisiana that local environmental groups and civic...