Bat-Ami Bar On: In Memoriam
Teacher. Mentor. Friend. The fortunate among us would use these words to characterize our relationships with our dissertation directors. Working closely with them over...
Uncovering Deaf Women Philosophers
When I was in graduate school, I started keeping a notebook with all of the references to deaf people and the experience of being...
Entropy and the Elderly in the Neoliberal Age
In the September 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine, Andrew Cockburn writes about the appalling negligence shown toward the elderly in American nursing homes. The...
Early Modern Philosophy: A Perverse Thought Experiment
Here’s a perverse thought experiment. Let’s suppose that we set ourselves the task of writing a history of philosophy that reflects and represents human...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...