Being rude is often more gratifying and enjoyable than being polite. Likewise, rudeness can be a more accurate and powerful reflection of how I feel and think. This is especially…
Indicative Conditionals
The chapter is an introduction to logical treatments of indicative conditionals, comparing truth-functional, non-truth-functional, and suppositional approaches. Some of the topics discussed are truth conditions, conditional belief, assertability, and issues…
Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy
…Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her death. As the titles suggest, Arendt conceived of her work as roughly…
Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not by Reason (Alone)
…the numbers say about women and minorities in philosophy, numbers don’t begin to tell the story. Things may be getting better in some contexts, but they are far from acceptable….
Scorekeeping in a Pornographic Language Game
…in the social science literature. Consider, for example, this description of an early experiment, from a time that pre-dates contemporary political debate. Keywords: Pornography, conversational score, illocutionary acts Language: English…
Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change?
…the social and institutional conditions of contemporary academic philosophy in the Anglophone world as well as its methods, culture, and characteristic commitments, the volume provides a case study in interpretation…
Different Voices or Perfect Storm: Why are there so few women in philosophy?
…the Arts and Humanities, slightly fewer than 30 percent of doctorates in philosophy are awarded to women. And women’s representation in the professoriate falls below that. Why is philosophy so…
Sage Philosophy: Indigenous Thinkers and Modern Debate on African Philosophy
Sage Philosophy is an anthology of three main parts: Part one contains papers by Odera Oruka clearing the way and arguing about his research over the last decade on indigenous…
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
…concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality. Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same exten…
Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
To the colonized, the term ‘research’ is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This…