Last Thursday evening, when I realized that I had approximately twenty-four hours before I would be locked out of my office, my email account, my Blackboard courseware account, and the webservers at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, I started emailing the...
View the video of this event here. October 13, 2016 Beneath tattoos are the meanings they have for the people wearing them. A philosophy of tattoos must recognize the personal and particular identities, values and ideals of those who wear them. Although meaning lies...
“What do you do with an institution [police] whose core function is the control and elimination of black people specifically, and people of color and the poor more broadly? You abolish it.” Thus writes Mychal Denzel Smith, echoing James Baldwin’s anguish some 50 years...
Please read this important white paper from PLATO on the need for philosophy in pre-college classrooms. Click to access plato-white-paper-why-philosophy-why-now.pdf Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...
View the video of this event here. It is well-known that upward mobility in the United States is increasingly rare. But what are the costs for those who do make it? Philosopher Jennifer M. Morton argues that one cost that is often overlooked is ethical. Moving up can...
