Introducing the Associate Editor of the Women in Philosophy series: An Interview with Julinna...
The Women in Philosophy series is pleased to announce that Julinna Oxley is coming onboard the APA Blog team as the Associate Editor of...
The Philosophical Activism of Lydia Maria Child
In 1846, a reviewer for the Southern
Quarterly Review was evaluating the writings of one of the United States’
most prolific authors, a woman named Lydia...
Across the Great Divide: Father and Daughter Philosophers
Last October, I presented a paper at an Ethics conference focused on African Americans and justice. I was pleased to see an older gentleman...
Worlds, Ideals, and Solidarity: A Feminist Primer
“Everything that forces itself into the world is subject to the principle of particularization.” - G. W. F. Hegel
To
“change the world”—to engage in responsible...
Unconscious Abolitionism: Beyond the Reform or Revolution Debate
I had the uncommon pleasure of hearing Ruth Wilson Gilmore speak twice last semester, once at my alma matter and once at a conference.
In...
Dating Online Masculinities
I started using online dating sites in
2005, after I met a woman on a plane who told me she met her boyfriend on a
site...
Vulnerability, Freedom, and Political Transformation
by Laura McMahon
On January
9, 1961 in Athens, Georgia, 19-year-old Charlayne Hunter-Gault and 19-year-old
Hamilton Holmes became the first African American students to enroll at the
University...
Fashion and Feminism
by Amie Leigh Zimmer
Philosophers and feminists have always agreed on one thing: fashion is not a topic that merits serious philosophical consideration. Karen Hanson...
The Mesoamerican Philosophy Renaissance
500 years after the conquistadors began burning books written by the original philosophers of Mexico and Guatemala, America’s classical thinking now rise like a...
Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher: Addressing Bullying
by Ann E. Cudd
I have a senior colleague, a man whose work is in metaphysics and epistemology, while mine is very decidedly not, who...