Luciano Floridi is the Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center and Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Yale University. His research focuses on the digital revolution and its philosophical issues. In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Floridi discusses his recent book The Green and The Blue: Naive Ideas to Improve Politics in the ..read more

Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Saint Louis University. His recent book, Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins, presents Weil as a political philosopher, placing her work in conversation with feminist philosophy, decolonial philosophy, and Marxism. In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Davis discusses Weil’s practical ..read more

We have been part of efforts to launch the Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative (3PI), a new project supported by the American Philosophical Association Small Grants Program and the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State. 3PI connects scholars with philosophical interests in policing, builds community among them, and fosters research in this area. We would ..read more

To continue the ongoing struggle of transforming higher education beyond merely reproducing the world as it stands, I here outline my rationale and process in developing a unit for introductory philosophy courses that initiate students to the practice of philosophy through the writings of political prisoners. By studying political prisoner writings, as well as the ..read more

Marxism and communism are often seen in many countries as malevolent boogeymen that cast a shadow throughout the Euromodern world, topics we shouldn’t discuss. However, when we do discuss them in hegemonic “western” academies, we tend to focus exclusively on the U.S. perspective on communism and Marxism, neglecting the reach of this political philosophy far ..read more

As a student, I was never introduced to the work of Martinican philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. I read Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth on my own during my Ph.D. in Paris, and since then Fanon’s ideas have constantly accompanied and deeply shaped my own philosophical thinking. With one exception ..read more

Camille Robcis’s Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France is a lively and timely intervention into a variety of fields. The book takes its name from the concept of disalienation about which Frantz Fanon wrote his original medical dissertation that was rejected by his committee and later published as Black Skin, White Masks ..read more

Michele Moody-Adams is Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University, and the author of Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy (1997) and Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination and Political Hope (2022). She also writes on democracy, academic freedom, justice, and moral psychology. In this Recently ..read more

This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalised world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling with how to liberate our beings from oppressive structures rooted in past and present (neo)colonialism and imperialism. We can take this as a chance to collectively and constructively consider both broader ..read more

David Elstein is Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz. Elstein specializes in Chinese philosophy and although his initial training and research was in pre-Qin thought, his more recent work has focused on contemporary Chinese philosophy, particularly Confucian political thought. His past work includes the Dao Companion to ..read more