The DRL Team is aiming high again, embarking on a new exciting project to inspire positive change in the discipline. Read all about it and more below!

News

The Philosophy Categorisation Project and APA funding
Following our research on marginalisation in philosophy indexing systems (Fokt 2020) and our proposal for Indexing Philosophy in a Fair and Inclusive Key (Fokt, Pharr, Torregrossa 2023), we are now about to put our words into action and start work on developing a new indexing system for the DRL. We are extremely happy that the American Philosophical Association decided to support us in this endeavour, offering to fund us through their Small Grant fund. We will begin work in January and update you on the progress. We hope that the system we develop will serve as a proof of concept and inspire other philosophy databases.

Continued support and dollar matching from the Marc Sanders Foundation
The very generous and brilliant folks at the Marc Sanders Foundation have voted to renew their support of the DRL for 2024! But it gets even better this time because every donation you make to the DRL will be dollar-matched by them, up to $2000! So if you give us $50, we get $100. It’s #DRLMaths! If you’d like to support us financially, it will go a long way to keeping us afloat!

You can donate through our dedicated page on the MSF website. We will recognise personal contributions by listing your name on our official supporters list. It would be even better if you can convince your university to support us! We will be proud to recognise generously supporting institutions on our page. We also have a special offer, where we can deliver workshops and training sessions for them.

You can find all information about this one our Support Us page.

New Blueprints
There is a whole new fresh Reading Group Blueprint waiting for you! This rich resource offers a detailed introduction to Feminist Logic and has been compiled by our prolific Logic and Philosophy of Logic editor, Franci Mangraviti.

We have a few more Blueprints in the pipeline, and some of them also generously supported by the APA! Expect to see them published in the coming months.

Volunteer Spotlight: Franci Mangraviti (she, her)

I am a mathematician-turned-philosopher. I specialize in logic and philosophy of mathematics but have been slowly branching out into social epistemology (especially matters of epistemic injustice) and philosophy of gender. My PhD work focused on making sense of a particular kind of nonclassical mathematical practices (so-called “inconsistent mathematics”) and culminated in providing a queerfeminist reconceptualization of the field. More generally, I am very interested in the ideas of alternative mathematics and feminist mathematics. My approach to these topics is practice-based, starting from what logicians and mathematicians actually seem to do, as opposed to what philosophers think they do or should do.

I joined the DRL in March 2023 as an Editor for the “Logic and Philosophy of Logic” section. It has been a rewarding experience, as it pushed me to (and helped me) discover so much valuable work I may never have found otherwise. I take Logic to be a particularly crucial field to present a more diverse picture of, due to its alleged role as the very foundation of philosophy, its alleged neutrality making it very resistant to social and political scrutiny, and the disconnect between much philosophy of logic and actual logical practices. I have contributed over 40 entries, and many more are planned; furthermore, I have recently co-authored a blueprint on Feminist Logic, which I hope will help bridge the gap between two fields of philosophy whose interaction is far too often seen as blasphemous by students and professors alike.

Get involved, get funded!

We continuously expand our list and you can help us by contributing content via our contribution page.

We couldn’t do what we do without the help of our fantastic volunteers. Check out our Volunteer Page to find out more, and join the Team! There are so many ways to get involved: creating new Reading Group Blueprints; becoming an editor; adding new list entries; organising events, promoting, and much more.

As a volunteer, you will also have access to the funding we receive for various projects we run. Get in touch to find out more!

Thanks so much again for all your support,
The DRL Team