I just realized that all day I have been focused on prospect of truly awful weather and forgotten about the truly horrific world.
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I just realized that all day I have been focused on prospect of truly awful weather and forgotten about the truly horrific world.
Day 10 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: German philosopher, feminist, and pacifist Helene Stöcker!
Stöcker used #Nietzsche to rethink the value of the values holding women back. She also rethought the value of war; her radical #pacifism forced her to flee the Nazis in 1933.
#womenshistory #philsky
Day 9 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US suffragist & activist Mary Church Terrell.
Terrell rethought #pacifism to foreground racial justice, arguing that “you may talk about permanent peace till doomsday, but the world will never have it till the darker races are given a square deal.”
#herstory
I've been thinking it is just a remake of 'The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3' ... so I haven't watched it yet, as much as I love Idris Elba. (There were gaping holes in season 1 too!)
Day 7 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher and educator Susan E. Blow
Blow rethought American education by using Hegel (yes, Hegel) to advocate for American kindergartens. Opposing industrialized schooling, she insisted on play as a crucial to all children’s education.
#herstory
Day 8 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld HAD to be philosopher Clara Zetkin!
Zetkin rethought women's role in socialism, insisting on working women's inclusion in feminism. She also originated International Women's Day!
#herstory #IWD #womeninphilosophy #IWD2026
I'll quote from Louise Dupin's _Work on Women_ that is sitting on my desk: "The traits that distinguish men from women seem in no way to be the source of a difference in merit, intelligence, insight , nor in any other quality." (trans. Rebecca Wilkin and Angela Hunter)
Recognizing today is International Women's Day!
I am celebrating the momentum of recognition of the women philosophers of the past through @ennhistphil.bsky.social.
One small part of work towards a more equal and just society!
Day 5 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: philosopher and historian Anna Julia Cooper!
Cooper rethought 19th century ideas of progress to define race and foreground women. To quote bell hooks: “one of the first black activists to urge black women to articulate their own experiences.”
#blackhistory
Read more by Prof. Robinson here! #philsky #womenshistory #womeninhistory doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Day 3 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: theorist, novelist & reformer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper!
In "Our Greatest Want," Harper rethought #Tocqueville's theory of public opinion & the story of Moses to argue for a multiracial, democratic society.
H/t Prof. Marcia Robinson! #blackhistory #herstory
David French in the NYT. Short version: It's about the Constitution. Don't be distracted.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/o...
This #WomensHistoryMonth, I'm highlighting 19th and 20th-century women whose work helped rethink the world.
First up: Jane Addams!
Addams' research with Chicago immigrants shaped a philosophy of #pacifism recognized by a #Nobel #Peace Prize in 1931.
#WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld #philsky #herstory
Isn't this essentially just adding salt to the Coke?
I need a nap and I think curling should put me to sleep
Yesterday, I lost my patience with winter.
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
It is very cold out. Sunny-ish. Bright. But very cold.
In a day or so, it will be back to being just cold, and it will feel like a relief.
I just can't get over that people are still thinking in terms of 'great philosopher'.
Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.
the 'loving heart' as the start of all certainly predates Carlyle. Very much in 17th century cf Pascal, Gabrielle Suchon, and others. Clearly aligned with love of God.
taught by Joe Rouse.
Wait. Have you ever read Kant's CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON?
Five classes I took in undergrad that have stuck with me:
1. Quine & Heidegger
2. Philosophy of Language
3. Thoreau's Walden
4. U.S. Constitutional Law
5. Modern China
Five classes I took in undergrad that I have now largely forgotten:
1. Quantum Mechanics
2. Thermodynamics
3. Electromagnetic theory
4. Linear Algebra
5. Optics
Messages to ICE from students at Liam Conejo Ramos's elementary school. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
Worse. August in DC is 100F and 95% humidity. Draw your own inferences.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
