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Philosophy and Current Affairs: The Russia-Ukraine War

...explore the instrumental and intrinsic values associated with teaching philosophy in their article, “Utopia, Dystopia, and Democracy: Teaching Philosophy in Wartime Ukraine.” Duclos argues that teaching philosophy in Ukraine can...

“In Order to Live We Must Synthesize Thought and Feeling”: Reflections on Philosophical Pedagogy with Audre Lorde

...Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on those excluded in the history of philosophy on the basis of gender injustice, issues of gender injustice in the field of philosophy, and...

What We Talk About When We Talk About “Personhood”: A Critical Review of Menkti’s Moral Man

...a specialist in African philosophy but as a moral philosopher trained mostly in the analytic tradition. The idea that Oyowe presents is a provocative one that I am attracted to....

Making Womanness Striking: Salience-based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives

...tell us about Women in Philosophy initiatives, or various programs explicitly aimed at promoting and supporting women in philosophy? My worry, in a (large) nutshell, is the following. Part of...

Queerness, Decolonization, and Ontological Suspension: A Brief Sketch

What contribution can philosophy make to queer and anticolonial politics? While answers are myriad, a significant number of philosophers have responded to this question by pointing to the potential of...

Medusa: An Undergraduate Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Jill Drouillard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the Mississippi University for Women. Her research interests include feminist philosophy, ethics/bioethics, 19th-20th century philosophy, and...

Interview with Dr. Nathifa Greene

...philosophy without acknowledging this fact. Given your approach to philosophy, and working against a mode of deprivation, can you tell me a bit about how you approach teaching philosophy? I...

Jill Drouillard

Jill Drouillard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the Mississippi University for Women. Her research interests include feminist philosophy, ethics/ bioethics, 19th-20th century philosophy,...

Devising Opposition in Feminist Philosophies of Care

...Cisgender and transgender women, white women and women of color, queer women and straight women, do not care endlessly for the sake of their own moral superiority. We care because...

Chasing Desire

...themes of sexual violence and the racialized innocence of white women. Wolf mentions the statistics on femicide and notes “and then I heard about all these trans women getting murdered...