Women in Philosophy

How (Not) to Think About Anti-Feminist Women

The woman hangs on, not with the delicacy of a clinging vine, but with a tenacity incredible in its intensity, to the very...
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Challenges for Women in Online Philosophy: Performativity and Clout

Despite believing in the value of online philosophy, I myself have limited philosophical engagements online. Online philosophy is a vast terrain, spanning from philosophy...
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Skepticism’s Cure for the Plague of Mind

This post is part two of a two-part series on skepticism and ethics in the Women in Philosophy series. The first part can be...
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Haptic Skepticism: The Crisis of (Not) Touching

The last three years spanned two global events that centered around the crisis of (not) touching: the #MeToo movement and the Covid-19 pandemic. These...
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Think Like a Feminist

Something has changed. Only a few years ago, we found ourselves collectively able to live with those who would explain away the “locker-room talk” of...
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Engendering Algorithmic Oppressions

In 2019, CNN and other news services reported that the New York Department of Financial Services was investigating Apple Card for gender bias because...
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Fatphobia, Women, and COVID-19

As of early July 2020, Googling “coronavirus obesity” brings up about 178 million results. For perspective, that’s 64 million more than “coronavirus chronic kidney...
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Frances Power Cobbe and Nineteenth-Century Moral Philosophy

Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) was an Anglo-Irish reformer who wrote about moral theory and moral epistemology, religion, evolution, duties to animals, feminism, welfare, mind...
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‘Black Lives Matter’ as Identity Politics and Class Struggle

“Daddy changed the world!” Gigi Floyd, daughter of George Floyd, smiled broadly as she shouted this out loud at a Black Lives Matter protest...
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Mitigating the Harms: Policy Possibilities under the New Title IX Rule

On May 6, the federal government released its final rule under Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972. Already, commentators have noted that...