As philosophers and social theorists we are authorized by virtue of our academic positions to develop theories that express and encompass the ideas, needs, and goals of others. However, we…
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism
Judith Butler (b. 1956) is an American philosopher and academic, especially known for their work on gender in the 1990s onward. The second part of their career elaborates on themes…
Old Wives’ Tales and Philosophical Delusions: On ‘the Problem of Women and African Philosophy’
…philosophy. I investigate the possibility that African women are not so much excluded from the institutionalized discipline of philosophy, as preferring fiction as a genre for intellectual expression. This hypothesis…
Political Philosophy
Publisher’s Note: Political philosophy, perhaps even more than other branches of philosophy, calls for constant renewal to reflect not just re-readings of the tradition but also the demands of current…
Philosophy of Mind (Third Edition)
Publisher’s Note: The philosophy of mind has long been part of the core philosophy curriculum, and this book is the classic, comprehensive survey of the subject. Designed as an introduction…
How is this Paper Philosophy?
…downsides of the culture of justification that pervades professional philosophy, I advocate that the discipline of professional philosophy be cast according to a culture of praxis. Finally, I provide a…
Where Are the Women? Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better
…just for the demographics of the field but also for how philosophy is practiced, many philosophers have begun to rethink the canon. Yet attempts to broaden European and Anglophone philosophy…
Socrates and Ọ̀rúnmìlà: Two Patron Saints of Classical Philosophy
…According to Oluwole, this branch of philosophy predates the Western tradition, as the ancient African philosopher Orunmila predates Socrates by her estimate. These two thinkers, representing the values of the…
Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion
Publisher’s note: “The book’s contribution to feminist philosophy of religion is substantial and original…. It brings the continental and Anglo-American traditions into substantive and productive conversation with each other.” Ellen…
Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster Methodology of Decolonising Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures
…context of settler colonialism in the United States. It breaks significant ground in articulating Indigenous ways of knowing and valuing to Western philosophy—not as artifact that Western philosophy can incorporate…