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The Curse, the Prison Cell, and the Lynching Mob: Revisiting the Limits of Law with Paul, Boethius, and the Coen Brothers

...law. And nobody achieves that. In Book 1 of the Late Antique classic On the Consolation of Philosophy, the titular Lady Philosophy sings the praises of Law to the imprisoned...

Expanding the Canon Through Storytelling: A Pedagogically Queer Approach

For much of philosophy’s past, the canon has been exclusively favorable to those whom society privileged. Think of any philosopher whose name you may hear in a philosophy 101 course—Kant,...

APA Member Interview: Mariana Gomez

Mariana Gomez is a Ph.D. student at Georgetown University studying Latina feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, and decolonial philosophy. As a first-generation college student and daughter of Mexican immigrant...

Incomplete Categories and Peripheries of Thought: Where is Philosophy From?

...Philosophy, or French Philosophy. Philosophy as a discipline has been asked to question its own canons and centers for many years now; invaluable work is done to promote the rich...

Corey McCall

Corey McCall teaches philosophy for the Cornell Prison Education Program and serves as a staff paralegal for Legal Assistance of Western New York. He was a professor of philosophy at...

Philosophizing Contemplation: Towards a (Re)new(ed) Contemplative Philosophy

...philosophy informed by contemplative practice, and contemplative practice informed by philosophy. Or perhaps what I am aspiring towards is philosophy as contemplative practice. This relates to my larger views about...

Where the Hell have Us White Philosophers Been? The Need for Peace, Love, and Racial Justice in Philosophy

...it took me years to notice this underneath the performance of struggle and play criticism all around me.  That same calendar year I also took intro philosophy, philosophy of justice,...

The Psychology of Political Power: Does Power Corrupt or is it Magnetic to the Most Corruptible?

...was the classic Stanford Prison Simulation Experiment (Zimbardo, 1971), where volunteers were randomly assigned to play the role of prisoners or prison guards. As the day passed by, it was observed...

Mistreatment of Pregnant Women in US Immigration Detention

...the Radical Philosophy Association (RPA) on November 11, 2021. My research is divided into three parts. The first one answers what types of mistreatment pregnant women suffer in US immigration...

The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2022 Award Winners

...away from Europe and to diversifying the philosophy curriculum in North American philosophy departments. He was among the first people who showed me that doing these two things was a...