30DoS 2020 – Day 11

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The SEP has been a like the Wikipedia of philosophy for years now. It’s authoritative, regularly updated, and comprehensive, with more than 1,600 articles. If you pay a small fee and support SEP, you gain access to pdfs of all entries. The free dictionary book depository are excellent too.

Link to website: https://plato.stanford.edu/about.html

The book depository https://www.bookdepository.com/

And The free dictionary https://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Radical Philosophy (OpenAccess)

We hope that, among other things, the pages of Radical Philosophy will become a venue for reflection upon the question of what it might mean to decolonise philosophy today. Alongside the translation and introduction of new authors, such an enterprise entails a profound questioning of the very notion of canonicity and the essence of the method of reason that calls itself philosophical. It is in keeping forever open the question of what it might mean to do philosophy that the project of a radical philosophy can remain truly radical.

Link to website: https://www.radicalphilosophy.com

Chukhrov, K. (2020). The philosophical disability of reason. Radical philosophy 2.07. https://tinyurl.com/yxs9ymg4

Eastwood, J. (2018). Strategies of debilitation. Radical Philosophy 2.03. https://tinyurl.com/yy39l87v

Kafiris, K. & Anonymous (2010). Universities in crisis. Radical Philosophy 160. https://tinyurl.com/y6kvqobq

Kimberlé Crenshaw

If you have heard the term ‘intersectionality’, you have probably heard of Kimberlé Crenshaw. Crenshaw is lawyer, civil rights advocate, philosopher, and a leading scholar of critical race theory. The focus of her research is on race and gender. She introduced the theory of intersectionality in a paper published in 1989, in which she argued that understanding the experience of being a black woman cannot be understood by examining ‘being black’ and ‘being a woman’ separately. They must be understood as interacting with and reinforcing one another. Intersectionality is not about discrimination being a sum total of racism and sexism. Rather, there are multiple social forces, social identities, and ideological instruments that intersect in us. Both power and disadvantage are created, legitimised and expressed in the interconnected social categorisations, including race, class, and gender.

https://www.ted.com/speakers/kimberlecrenshaw

Crenshaw, Kimberlé (2008). “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color,” in The Feminist Philosophy Reader, Alison Bailey and Chris Cuomo (eds.). New York: McGraw-Hill, 279–309.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé, Luke Charles Harris & George Lipsitz (2018). The Race Track: Understanding and Challenging Structural Racism. New York: New Press.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé (2017). On Intersectionality: Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw. 2017.