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| Hsiang-Yun Chen |
Hsiang-Yun Chen is an assistant research fellow at The Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS) at Academia Sinica and works primarily in philosophy of language and feminist philosophy. In addition to the formal and the technical, she also thinks hard about the social and the normative. Other than philosophy, she enjoys art, capoeira, and vegan cooking. |
| Claudia Ivette Muro García |
| Claudia is a student of the Master of Advanced Studies in Philosophy in the Complutense University of Madrid. |
| Sarah Vitale |
| Rachel Ades |
| Rachel Levit Ades is a fifth-year Philosophy PhD student at Arizona State University. She specializes in Philosophy of Disability and Bioethics. Her dissertation is on accommodations as a matter of justice. |
| Ashley J. Bohrer |
| Ashley J. Bohrer is a scholar-activist based in Chicago. She is Assistant Professor of Gender and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from DePaul University (2016). Along with Justin De Leon, she cohosts the Pedagogies for Peace Podcast. She currently serves as the Public Philosophy Editor for the blog of the American Philosophical Association. Her first book, Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism is available through Transcript Verlag and Columbia University Press. You can read more about her work at ashleybohrer.com |
| Chas Walker |
| Chas Walker earned a BA in African-American Studies at Brown University and then worked for nearly two decades as a community and union organizer with health care and child care workers in Rhode Island, primarily with SEIU District 1199 New England. He now lives in Dorchester, MA, and recently published a column in The Boston Globe on the anniversary of the 1999 WTO protests and the rise of today's labor and climate justice movements. You can find him on Twitter: @chasbwalker. |
| Massimo Pigliucci |
| Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His books include How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books), A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control (The Experiment, with Gregory Lopez), and How to Live a Good Life (Vintage, co-edited with Skye Cleary and Dan Kaufman). Check out more from Massimo at massimopigliucci.wordpress.com. |
| Rebecca Scott |
| Rebecca Scott is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harper College and tabletop game enthusiast. Her research interests lie at the intersections of philosophy and pedagogy. |
| Renée Smith |
| Renée Smith is a professor of philosophy at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. She specializes in philosophy of mind, particularly on phenomenal consciousness and introspection, and philosophy pedagogy. |
| Edward Perez |
| Edward Perez, Jr. is a lecturer in philosophy at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. He specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. |
| Giulio Di Basilio |
Giulio Di Basilio is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He specializes in ancient philosophy. His current project concerns Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics. |
| Merritt Rehn-DeBraal |
| Merritt Rehn-DeBraal is a lecturer in philosophy and co-coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies minor at Texas A&M University, San Antonio. Her research interests include social/political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophies of sexual violence. |
| Clifford Sosis |
| Cliff Sosis is a philosopher at Coastal Carolina University. He created, and in his spare time he runs What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? in-depth autobiographical interviews with philosophers. In Sosis's words, "Interviews you can’t find anywhere else. In the interviews, you get a sense of what makes living, breathing philosophers tick. How one becomes a philosopher. The interviews show how our theories shape our lives and how our experiences influence our theories. They reveal what philosophers have in common, if anything, and what our goals are. Overall, the interviews give you a fuller picture of how the people who do philosophy work, and a better idea of how philosophy works. This stuff isn't discussed as often as it should be, I think, and these stories are extremely interesting and moving!" He has a Patreon page here and tweets @CliffordSosis. |
| Ravit Dotan |
| Ravit Dotan is a graduate student at UC Berkeley. She specializes in epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of machine learning. |
| Timothy McGarvey |
| Timothy McGarvey is a PhD student at the University of South Florida where he works primarily on Friedrich Nietzsche and Environmental Ethics. |
| Ian Olasov |
| Ian Olasov is a graduate student at the CUNY Graduate Center and the founder of Brooklyn Public Philosophers. |
| Ted Lechterman |
| Ted Lechterman (@tlechtable) is a postdoc at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. His current research addresses how the value of democracy applies to emergent economic practices. An earlier version of this piece was presented at the Centre for Advanced Studies Justitia Amplificata annual conference at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2019. |
| Robert Redding, Jr. |
| Robert “Rob” Redding, Jr. MA, MFA is a professor at Seton Hall and has taught at Pace and colleges of the City University of New York. He is the editor of ReddingNewsReview.com and host of Redding News Review Unrestricted. He has authored a book with discussions of Black queerness as it relates to Black political life: The Professor: Witnessing White Power. |
| Arianna Falbo |
| Arianna Falbo is a PhD student at Brown University, where she is also pursuing a doctoral certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research is primarly in epistemology, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of language (and their various intersections), and she is currently working on projects on inquiry as well as epistemic oppression. Arianna is dedicated to making academic philosophy more inclusive and friendly. To this end, she has taught for Corrupt the Youth, an educational outreach program that brings philosophy to students from low-income backgrounds and Title 1 high schools. She also co-founded and helps to organize a MAP chapter at Brown, and this summer she is excited to serve as the graduate director for Brown’s Summer Immersion Program in Philosophy (SIPP). |
| Heather Stewart |
| Heather Stewart is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University. Their research and teaching take an intersectional feminist approach to analyses of medicine, healthcare, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on how power, oppression, and privilege shape individual and collective engagement with these institutions and technologies. Their work has been published in several top journals, including The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, and Perspectives on Psychological Science, among others. Heather’s first book, Microaggressions in Medicine (with Lauren Freeman), was published with Oxford University Press in February of 2024. |
| Shannon Hoff |
| Shannon Hoff is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada. She is author of The Laws of the Spirit: A Hegelian Theory of Justice, and is currently working on a book on issues in feminism. She works in the areas of political philosophy, feminism, and continental philosophy. |
| Bernardo Kastrup |
| Bernardo Kastrup has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories. His focus is on Idealism, and his work has been published in Scientific American, the Institute of Art and Ideas, and Big Think, among others. |
| Stephanie Mercado-Irizarry |
| Stephanie Mercado-Irizarry is pursuing her PhD in Literatures, Cultures and Languages at the University of Connecticut. She possesses an M.A. in Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies from said institution, and received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her transdisciplinary research focuses on contemporary Puerto Rican literature and muralism. |
| Margaret Betz |
| Margaret Betz is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. She is the author of The Hidden Philosophy of Hannah Arendt and, the recent book, Modes of Protest and Resistance: Strange Change in Morals Political. |
| Nayef Al-Rodhan |
| Prof. Nayef Al-Rodhan is a Philosopher, Neuroscientist and Geostrategist. He holds an MD and PhD, and was educated and worked at the Mayo Clinic, Yale, and Harvard University. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford University; Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Department at the Geneva Center for Security Policy; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Member of the Global Future Councils at the World Economic Forum; and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). In 2014, he was voted as one of the Top 30 most influential Neuroscientists in the world, in 2017, he was named amongst the Top 100 geostrategists in the World, and in 2022, he was named as one of the Top 50 influential researchers whose work could shape 21st-century politics and policy. He is a prize-winning scholar who has written 25 books and more than 300 articles, including most recently 21st-Century Statecraft: Reconciling Power, Justice And Meta-Geopolitical Interests, Sustainable History And Human Dignity, Emotional Amoral Egoism: A Neurophilosophy Of Human Nature And Motivations, and On Power: Neurophilosophical Foundations And Policy Implications. His current research focuses on transdisciplinarity, neuro-techno-philosophy, and the future of philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between philosophy, neuroscience, strategic culture, applied history, geopolitics, disruptive technologies, Outer Space security, international relations, and global security. |
| Shane Callahan |
| Shane Callahan is a PhD candidate at the University of South Florida. He works in curricular reform as the ePortfolio coordinator and is part-time faculty at Adams State University in Alamosa, Colorado. |
| Jeremy Bendik-Keymer |
I went to public school in Ithaca and New Hartford, New York, graduating from New Hartford Senior High School. After spending time at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, France, I earned my B.A. in philosophy from Yale University and my Ph.D. in philosophy from University of Chicago, studying with Martha C. Nussbaum and Charles Larmore, among others. One of the most important learning experiences for me was researching a Head Start program modeled on Reggio Emilia's municipal preschools with Dan and Sandra Scheinfeld. It shaped the work that I did at Colorado College, American University of Sharjah (Department of International Studies), LeMoyne College, and in the Beamer-Schneider Professorship in Ethics at Case Western Reserve University. I often collaborate with Misty Morrison. She's building a sense of art and of community close to economy that is ecology. It starts with family and neighborhood relationships. She's country, and I'm punk. My current book project is under contract, Shall Planetary Justness Frame Their Homes: Environmental Wonder, Neighborhood Philosophy. |
| Boaventura de Sousa Santos |
| Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University. He is Director Emeritus of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian and Polish. His most recent project ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences was funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council, one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe. His most recent books in English are: The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South(Duke UP, 2018); Decolonising the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017); If God Were a Human Rights Activist (Stanford UP, 2015); Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide (Routledge, 2014). Boaventura de Sousa Santos also writes lyrics for rap, as shown in his book Rap Global (Rio de Janeiro, Aeroplano, 2010; Confraria do Vento, 2019). |
| Tenure for the Common Good |
| Tenure for the Common Good seeks to rally tenured faculty to use their tenured positions to fight for justice on their own campuses and nationally. They represent a broad spectrum of public and private colleges and universities across the United States. They aim to work with already active contingent (adjunct, lecturer, part-time) colleagues to achieve the goal of equity in the academic workplace. |
| Lydia Moland |
| Lydia Moland is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She has published extensively on Hegel and German Idealism, including Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism (Oxford, 2019). She is currently writing a biography of the American abolitionist Lydia Maria Child (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) and is co-editing, together with Alison Stone, The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century. |