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Edith Stein: multi-species empathy, being-toward-extinction, and collective grief

...Rosa on August 9th, 1942 at the age of 50. The Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on those excluded in the history of philosophy on the basis of gender...

APA Member Interview: Kenneth Park

...of dispute resolution (which I think we should be devout about and hold sacred, especially if it is done peacefully). What excites you about philosophy? Philosophy excites me because it...

Early Feminist Critiques of Kant’s Gendered Ideal of Human Progress

...including all women) is an extremely difficult task. Kant himself does not reject women’s enlightenment either normatively or as a matter of possibility. However, the sociopolitical circumstances of women at...

What Did the Opponents of Affirmative Action Get Wrong About Affirmative Action?

...affirmative action argue that the preferential treatment that (white) women, Black people, people of color, and indigenous people get is detrimental to white males—especially white males that are hardworking and...

Olga Lenczewska

Olga Lenczewska is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She completed a PhD in Philosophy and a PhD Minor in Political Science at Stanford...

Anti-Nuclear Anti-Colonial Feminism

...dangerous and demanding relation might mean and what forms of care and responsibility for those most intimately harmed by it could take. The Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy

...a political philosopher, placing her work in conversation with feminist philosophy, decolonial philosophy, and Marxism. In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Davis discusses Weil’s practical approach to philosophy, the role...

A Feminist Critique of Moral Particularism

...concrete avenue for the oppressed to advocate for themselves. The Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on those excluded in the history of philosophy on the basis of gender injustice,...

Diversifying the Philosophy Syllabus

...I was standing before a classroom of students as the instructor, I had little to no knowledge of Africana philosophy, Latin philosophy, or Indigenous philosophy. Textbooks didn’t (and still don’t)...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Care

Todd May teaches philosophy at Warren Wilson College and is the author of seventeen books on philosophy, including Death, A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe, A Fragile Life: Accepting...