Lewis Gordon: “Derek Chauvin Trial”

Read Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon’s recent article, “Derek Chauvin Trial: 3 Questions America Needs to Ask About Seeking Racial Justice in a Court of Law.” **Excerpt from the article** There are three questions I find important to consider as the trial unfolds. These questions address the legal, moral and political legitimacy of any […]

Jane Gordon: “Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg”

Check out “Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg” edited by Affiliate Professor Jane Gordon and Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers). Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly, for the purpose of creolizing the canon, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this […]

Drew Johnson: “Disjunctive Luminosity”

Read graduate student Drew Johnson’s recent article in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, “Disjunctive Luminosity.” *Abstract* Williamson’s influential anti‐luminosity argument aims to show that our own mental states are not “luminous,” and that we are thus “cognitively homeless.” Among other things, this argument represents a significant challenge to the idea that we enjoy basic self‐knowledge of […]

Alexus McLeod: Aeon+Psyche Pick from the Archive

Psyche, a digital magazine run by Aeon Media Group that explores the human condition through mental health, the question of “how to live,” and the arts and transcendent experience, has selected Associate Professor Alexus McLeod’s 2020 essay as the editor’s pick from the archive. Read “Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal” […]

Tracy Llanera: The Women Doing Philosophy Group in the Philippines

At the height of the pandemic crisis in 2020, Filipino women philosophers everywhere gathered virtually to form the group Women Doing Philosophy. Read two feature essays about the organization in the APA-Black Issues in Philosophy Blog: “To Slay a Specter: on the Founding of the Women Doing Philosophy Group in the Phillippines” by Cass Teodosio, […]