Women in Philosophy

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The Body Problem and the Climate Crisis

Students of Anglo-European philosophy might be familiar with the “mind-body problem.” The problem originates with early seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, who...
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Sugar Babies: When “Feminism” Looks Like Online Misogyny

In 2019, the dating website Seeking.com reported having 365 University of Edinburgh students registered as members. Seeking.com is not just any dating platform. It’s...
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The Lost Women of Early Analytic Philosophy

As new histories of early analytic philosophy and its pre-history begin to appear, there is a striking absence of female names. For example, the...
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Incomplete Categories and Peripheries of Thought: Where is Philosophy From?

Some time since I moved to the United States, my home country, Turkey, shifted its geographic location, and so did my relation to the...

(Un)Fairness in AI: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

Racial, Gender, and Intersectional Biases in AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now an integral part of society. It is used to make high-stakes decisions, such...
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Reading Kierkegaard’s Absent Women

Misogynistic or traditionalist views of women lurk in the background of many a philosopher in the Western tradition. For Søren Kierkegaard, a blend of...
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Intimacy, Illness, and Forced Gestation

Two weeks ago, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness. The past few months have been a whirlwind of surgeries, IVs, MRIs, and medications....
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In Praise of Experimental Workshops

The following is a two-part post in which Lauren Guilmette and Ada Jaarsma reflect on their experiences with the Image-Text and Experimental Writing Workshop...
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Doing Public Philosophy

(This post is informed by the collective conceptual labor that led to the analysis in a co-written book chapter with Melissa D. Gruver in...
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Roe, Abortion, and the Right to Ourselves

When I joined a protest the day after the leak of Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe, rage overwhelmed me. My rage was not...