The Necessity of Guaranteed Housing
Louise, a woman of 42, lost her house in the divorce several years back. Having limited financial resources, she’s been sleeping often in her...
Unnatural Bodies: Disability as Metaphysical Threat
When, in the immediate aftermath of World War Two, a group of eighteen German physicians who participated in the killing of more than fifty...
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...
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...
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...