Doing Philosophy Together: On the Value of Philosophical Collaboration
What comes to mind when you hear the word “philosopher?”
For many, it’s still the image of the wise, isolated thinker doing philosophy on his...
Tough-Soft
My grandmother drank her coffee out of a teacup.
It was a ritual.
Every morning she would put a heaping spoonful of Folgers instant coffee into...
Care Exploitation in Academia
Faculty and staff are experiencing increasing demands for service in higher education, particularly for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. These demands are often...
In reciprocity, we fill our spirits as well as our bellies
Land is in the news these days, and along with claims to it, an unimaginable level of violence. So, this seems to be as...
Women in Focus: How to Integrate Underrepresented Groups in the History and Philosophy of...
Andrea Reichenberger is currently leading a research group at the University of Siegen (with members Rudolf Meer, Julia Franke-Reddig, and Jasmin Özel) that investigates...
Edith Stein: multi-species empathy, being-toward-extinction, and collective grief
My interest in the philosophy of Edith Stein arose while I was teaching a philosophy course on death where the final third of the...
Early Feminist Critiques of Kant’s Gendered Ideal of Human Progress
I am currently working on a book that examines how the gendered nature of Kant’s vision of the Enlightenment was challenged by several female...
Anti-Nuclear Anti-Colonial Feminism
Nuclear has long been debated in terms of intergenerational justice. The rise of nuclear environmentalism that presents nuclear energy as the solution to decarbonize...
A Feminist Critique of Moral Particularism
Moral Particularism
In metaethics, moral particularism is the view that moral reasoning is too context-sensitive to be guided by overarching principles. Traditional work in ethics...
Decolonizing Philosophy: The Contributions of Françoise Vergès
The call to decolonize philosophy is growing, and while this is a dense and robust demand, a vital maneuver of this commitment is to...