Where were the white philosophers? At 9 a.m. on October 19 here at Vanderbilt University’s Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, the building’s “multipurpose auditorium” served a familiar ...

One might hope that philosophy, the discipline that prides itself on thinking about thought, would also be thoughtful about itself. If, for instance, half the population had regularly been excluded ...

What image does the word philosopher conjure? Maybe Socrates, bearded and barefoot, counseling Plato on the agora; Rousseau on one of his solitary walks around the outskirts of Paris; Sartre sucking ...

In “How to Think Like a Woman,” Regan Penaluna, a scholar who left the field, takes it to task for its historical misogyny and persistent sexism. By Becca Rothfeld When you purchase an independently ...

Journalist Penaluna spotlights in her incisive debut four women thinkers who pushed back against misogyny in Western philosophy. Penaluna writes of how she wanted to become a philosophy professor, but ...

As an assistant professor and the history and philosophy librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder, Carey frequently finds himself helping students dig into texts for class discussions. But ...

For a decade, Duke's Project Vox has elevated the roles of women whose impact on philosophy has been hidden or buried Until recently, a philosophy doctoral student looking for a dissertation subject ...

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life, by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman (Doubleday: 2022), 416 pages In 1956, Oxford University awarded former President Harry S ...

Tracing the transformation of moral philosophy through the friendships of four utterly unique women who gathered around Oxford in the mid-20th century requires getting those four people into a room ...

Philosophers seeking to answer questions around inequality in household labour and the invisibility of women's work in the home have proposed a new theory -- that men and women are trained by society ...

She was among a collective of philosophy professors who started Hypatia, the first major scholarly publication to view the discipline from a feminist lens. By Penelope Green Linda Lopez McAlister, a ...