The social sciences are unusual, as compared to the other sciences, with respect to how
they investigate the objects they work on. Chemists, for instance, take it to be an ordinary …

The laden phrase “identity politics” has come to signify a wide range of political activity and
theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social …

Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century.
Despite myriad programs of deradicalization and prevention around the world, it remains an …

Feminism is said to be the movement to end women's oppression (hooks 2000, 26). One
possible way to understand 'woman'in this claim is to take it as a sex term:'woman'picks out …

In The Formation of Reason, philosophy professor David Bakhurst utilizes ideas from
philosopher John McDowell to develop and defend a socio-historical account of the human …

This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective. It
asks: what makes oppression, discrimination, and domination wrongful? Is there a single …

Social groups—like teams, committees, gender groups, and racial groups—play a central
role in our lives and in philosophical inquiry. Here I develop and motivate a structuralist …

Philosophical theories of gender are typically understood as theories of what it is to be a
woman, a man, a nonbinary person, and so on. In this paper, I argue that this is a mistake …

Are sagging pants cool? Are cows food? Are women more submissive than men? Are blacks
more criminal than whites? Taking the social world at face value, many people would be …

Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or
eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In …