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 ...

When the nation’s black female philosophers meet for the first time next month, the auditorium at Vanderbilt University will have plenty of empty seats. Not because no one is interested in attending, ...

When we think of philosophy, the names that often come to mind are Plato, Nietzsche, or Kant—figures who shaped centuries of thought. But what about the women who challenged those same ideas, expanded ...

‘People think of philosophers as stereotypically a dead white man, or old white man with a beard,’ says Heather Demerest, who notes that Descartes was more than such a caricature One reason female ...

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 ...

BINGHAMTON, NY - Women are underrepresented in philosophy journals, even when compared to their already low rate of representation among faculty, according to new research from Binghamton University, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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