2024 NASSP Call for Abstracts Announced!

Community, Identity, and Belonging: Forty-First International Social Philosophy Conference Sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska July 11-13, 2024 Those interested in presenting at NASSP’s 2024 Conference are invited to submit an abstract of their proposed presentation. Proposals for presentation in all areas of social

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Social Philosophy Today CFP (due Dec. 1, 2023)

Social Philosophy Today is pleased to invite submissions to Volume 40 (2024) on any topic within social and political philosophy, but in particular the themes: Conflict, Crisis, and Catastrophe.  For a list of possible sub-topics, please see the call-for-abstracts to the 2023 NASSP conference: https://www.northamericansocietyforsocialphilosophy.org/annual-conference/abstracts/ We also invite original, non-article length “responses” to previously published Social Philosophy Today articles. For electronic

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Statement of Support

NASSP strongly condemns the recent violent attack on University of Waterloo students and their professor, a valued member of our community, in the middle of a Philosophy of Gender class. We are outraged and horrified that a professor was terrorized and assaulted for doing her job: helping others to think through

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2023 Book Award Winner: Elsa Dorlin

The winner of the 2023 Book Award is Elsa Dorlin, for Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence, Verso, 2022! book description: Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies “worthy of defending” and those who have been disarmed and rendered

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