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What Am I ‘Really’ Doing While Teaching Philosophy

...made, not born, I might have never chosen to become a philosophy teacher because I would have been discouraged by the prevailing societal biases at the time that women were...

Women in Philosophy Behaving Badly? Or Madly?

...in philosophy is nothing new. But it is one of the key sources that can lead women in philosophy to mental illness. Further, the degree to which mental illness can...

Metaphysics, Colin C. Smith

...insights into the syllabi of philosophy educators. We include syllabi in their original, unedited format that showcase a wide variety of philosophy classes. We would love for you to be...

International Women’s Day Profile: María Jesús Alvarado Rivera

...argued that in Peruvian history there had been no “genius” women because women were oppressed and remained ignorant. Geographical Society Lecture on Feminism, October 28, 1911 At the Geographical Society...

International Women’s Day Profile: Cristina Peri Rossi

...told María Pilar Donoso, according to her, that he “detested intellectual women”, 1987, p. 122). An example among many others of the phenomenon of invisibilization of women artists, here in...

What Does It Mean To Depend On Someone?

...home tend to depend on their partners enormously. By overlooking this as a dependency relation, we risk overlooking one of the key mechanisms through which women’s labor is exploited. Women...

How Not to Latinify Philosophy

...consequently as professionals. Schwitzgebel et al. also report that Blacks, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and women in general are underrepresented at all levels in philosophy, which means that philosophy needs...

Philosophy of Economics, Patricia Marino

...theory, but I studied math as a graduate student before switching to philosophy, and I’ve retained an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Opinion pieces in the news around 2009...

Gina Helfrich

Gina Helfrich received her PhD in philosophy from Emory University with a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She currently serves as Manager of the Centre for Technomoral...

Colonial heritage or philosophical source? Update on the heritage of Bantu Philosophy

...by a missionary such as Tempels, and present-day interpretations of it as “negro-African philosophy.” The idea promoted in Bantu Philosophy that there is a specific African philosophy that, despite differences,...