Open Letter Concerning Transphobia in Philosophy

January 2021

We are professional academic philosophers committed to the inclusion and acceptance of trans and gender non-conforming people, both in the public at large, and within philosophy in particular. We write to affirm our commitment to developing a more inclusive environment, disavowing the use of professional and cultural authority to further gendered oppression.


Last week the UK’s Conservative government designated Kathleen Stock, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, and a prominent critic of trans-inclusive stances and policies, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. This award was ostensibly given for services to higher education. Stock is best-known in recent years for her trans-exclusionary public and academic discourse on sex and gender, especially for opposition to [amendments to*] the UK Gender Recognition Act and the importance of self-identification to establish gender identity, and for advocating that trans women should be excluded from places like women’s locker rooms or shelters. She used the occasion of her OBE award to post on Twitter, calling for UK universities to end their association with Stonewall, the prominent LGBTQ+ rights charity, describing its trans-inclusive stance as a threat to free speech.


Trans people are already deeply marginalized in society, facing well-documented discrimination, ranging from government policy to physical violence. Discourse like that Stock is producing and amplifying contributes to these harms, serving to restrict trans people’s access to life-saving medical treatments, encourage the harassment of gender-non-conforming people, and otherwise reinforce the patriarchal status quo. We are dismayed that the British government has chosen to honour her for this harmful rhetoric.


We do not say Stock should not be permitted to say the things she does. We believe in the principles of academic freedom, and note that objecting to someone being lauded or honoured for their speech simply does not conflict with those principles. Academic freedom comes with responsibility; we should not use that freedom to harm people, particularly the more vulnerable members of our community. Conflating concern about the harms of Stock’s work with threats to academic freedom obfuscates important issues.


By no means are we suggesting that there aren’t deep and important questions about sex and gender, or that philosophers should not pursue them. Indeed, an open letter from 2019, written and signed by feminist philosophers who have worked on these questions, has made this very point. Rather, our concern is that some — apparently including the British government — have a tendency to mistake transphobic fearmongering for valuable scholarship, and attacks on already marginalized people for courageous exercises of free speech.


We stand against prominent members of our profession using their academic status to further gender oppression. We denounce transphobia in all its forms, and hereby publicly commit to working to create a more inclusive culture, in which people of all gender presentations and identities are able to thrive and be respected for who they are.


Signed,

  • Talia Mae Bettcher, Cal State – Los Angeles

  • Samantha Brennan, University of Guelph

  • Liam Kofi Bright, London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Roger Clarke, Queen’s University Belfast

  • Ben Colburn, University of Glasgow

  • Adrian Currie, Exeter University

  • Esa Díaz León, University of Barcelona

  • Sally Haslanger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Remco Heesen, University of Western Australia & Groningen University

  • Jules Holroyd, University of Sheffield

  • Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, University of British Columbia

  • Phyllis Illari, University College London

  • Carrie Jenkins, University of British Columbia

  • Chris Kelp, University of Glasgow

  • Alison Duncan Kerr, University of St Andrews

  • Quill Kukla, Georgetown University

  • Lisa Miracchi, University of Pennsylvania

  • Lydia Patton, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  • Alan Richardson, University of British Columbia

  • Mona Simion, University of Glasgow

  • Kurt Sylvan, University of Southampton

  • Alessandra Tanesini, Cardiff University

  • Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Georgetown University

  • Aness Webster, Nottingham University

  • Matt Weiner, University of Vermont

  • Alison Wylie, University of British Columbia

  • Audrey Yap, University of Victoria

* Erratum: the original version of this letter incorrectly stated that Stock opposes the UK’s Gender Recognition Act. This was an error; it should have said that Stock is well-known for opposing amendments to the Gender Recognition Act that would have made it easier for people to self-identify their gender. The bracketed amendment in the text above was added subsequent to some of the signatures. We apologize for the error.

The names above are the initial signatories of the list on its publication date of 4 January, 2020. Listed below are additional people who signed between January 5–8.

  • Gil Morejón, DePaul University

  • Dominic Berry, LSE

  • Mason Westfall, University of Toronto

  • Elin McCready Aoyama, Gakuin University

  • Fabien Cayer, University of Ottawa

  • Ari Bluy, Carleton University

  • James M. Dow, Hendrix College

  • Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California

  • Mathea S. Sagdahl, The Arctic University of Norway

  • Joel Walmsley, University College Cork

  • Nayuta Miki, Osaka University

  • Michelle Liu, University of Hertfordshire

  • Glen Pettigrove, University of Glasgow

  • Hadeel Naeem, The University of Edinburgh

  • Matt Jope, The University of Edinburgh

  • Phillip Hintikka Kieval, University of Houston

  • Marta Jimenez, Emory University

  • Thomas Bonn, University of Colorado

  • Rory Kent, University of Cambridge

  • Tanuj Raut

  • Samuel Hoadley-Brill, "The Graduate Center, CUNY"

  • Azita Chellappoo, Ruhr Universität Bochum

  • Hane Maung, University of Manchester

  • Min Baek, UC Berkeley

  • Simone Webb, University College London

  • Ben Davies, University of Oxford

  • Natalie Alana Ashton, University of Stirling

  • Danny Wardle, University of Adelaide

  • Dr. Sara L. Uckelman, Durham University

  • Joshua Habgood-Coote, University of Bristol

  • Gerry Dunne, MIE/TCD

  • Samuel J. Thomas, Arizona State University (MA)

  • Hind Fiddah

  • Maks Sipowicz, Monash University

  • William Hebblewhite

  • Joe Dewhurst, LMU Munich

  • Adriana Alcaraz-Sanchez, University of Glasgow

  • Daniel Tatlow-Devally, Berlin School of Mind & Brain

  • Oliver Milne, "National University of Ireland, Galway"

  • Zhiyu Chen, University of Cambridge

  • Astrid Oredsson, University of Cambridge

  • Karoline Paier, University of British Columbia

  • Jae Hetterley, University of Warwick

  • Pedro Bravo de Souza, University of São Paulo

  • Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen

  • George A Kassimis, "University at Albany, SUNY"

  • Catarina Dutilh Novaes, "VU Amsterdam, University of St Andrews"

  • Kaetlin Taylor, "University of California, Irvine"

  • Rebecca Buxton, University of Oxford

  • Christa Peterson, USC

  • James Butler, Reinhardt University

  • Candess Kostopoulos, University of South Africa

  • Daniel Waweru

  • Iain Campbell, University of Dundee

  • Lizzy Ventham, University of Liverpool

  • Patrick Wheatley, University of Oxford

  • James Miller, Durham University

  • Jon Bebb, University of Manchester

  • Alex Fisher, University of Cambridge

  • David Oppong, University of Antwerp

  • Robert Chapman, University of Bristol

  • Nikhil Venkatesh, University College London

  • Sophie Juliane Veigl, "Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv"

  • Christopher Bertram, University of Bristol (emeritus)

  • Magnus Møller Ziegler, Aarhus University

  • Shen-yi Liao, University of Puget Sound

  • James Lloyd, University of Manchester

  • Eilidh Harris, University of Glasgow

  • Jules Rankin, University of Sydney

  • Eline Gerritsen, University of St Andrews

  • Jessica Stanier, University of Exeter

  • Will Cashmore, "Kingston University, London"

  • Sif Høg, University of Copenhagen

  • Taylor Matthews, University of Nottingham

  • Jeremy Pober, "University of California, Riverside"

  • Joey Pollock, University of Oslo

  • Aidan McGlynn, University of Edinburgh

  • Damian Masterson

  • Suzy Killmister, Monash University

  • Anne Polkamp, KU Leuven

  • Emry Beattie, University of Glasgow

  • Alexander François van Biezen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  • Constantine Sandis, University of Hertfordshire

  • Angel Holmes, West Chester University

  • J. Adam Carter, University of Glasgow

  • David Ripley, Monash University

  • Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, "Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge"

  • Giacomo Giannini, LSE

  • James Camien McGuiggan, "Trinity College, Dublin"

  • Lauren Ware, University of Kent

  • Katie Monk, University of Nottingham

  • Luke Brunning, University of Birmingham

  • Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, University of Hertfordshire, UK"

  • Justine Jacot, University of Lund, Sweden

  • Wayne C. Myrvold, The University of Western Ontario

  • Mirjam Müller, Humboldt University Berlin

  • Jamie Ranger, University of Oxford

  • Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky, Paul-Mikhail Podosky

  • Bidisha Chakraborty, University of Calcutta

  • Arda Caglar

  • Joe Gough, University of Sussex

  • Hendrik Kempt, RWTH Aachen

  • Tina Wadhawa

  • E.C. Gordon

  • Krzysztof Dolega, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

  • Anthony Leaker, University of Brighton

  • Louis Molnár, Coined Artificial Philosophy

  • Michael Townsen Hicks, University of Birmingham

  • Nikki Ernst, "Graduate Student, University of Pittsburgh"

  • Jeferson Diello Huffermann, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

  • Aaron Rabinowitz, Rutgers

  • Nick Clanchy, University of Oxford

  • Rachel Katz

  • Sandrine Berges, Bilkent University

  • Lexi C.M.K Turner, Cornell University

  • A.C. Jones, Kingston University

  • Nicholas Meadowcroft-Lunn, University of York

  • Kleber Bernardo, Federal University of ABC

  • Dana Naomi Mills, University of Amsterdam

  • Michael Davin, University of Bristol

  • Johanna Thoma, London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Jonathan Weisberg, University of Toronto

  • Lisa Whiting, "Birkbeck, University of London"

  • Jennifer Foster, University of Southern California

  • Elizabeth Picciuto

  • Will Starr, Cornell University

  • Marek McGann, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

  • Chloé de Canson, University of Groningen

  • Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, The Alan Turing Institute

  • Paul-Michael Irvin, UC Berkeley

  • Jason Stanley, Yale University

  • David Kinney, Santa Fe Institute

  • Wiktor Rorot, University of Warsaw

  • Nolan Grunska, University of Hawaii at Manoa

  • Jesi Taylor Cruz, The CUNY Graduate Center

  • Sarah Kizuk, Marquette University

  • Berta Grimau, Czech Academy of Sciences

  • Jérôme Melançon, University of Regina

  • Stamatina Liosi, University College London

  • Breno Santos, Federal University of Mato Grosso

  • Philip Maloney, Christian Brothers University

  • Clara Moreton, University of Essex

  • Housamedden Darwish, Leipzig University

  • Colin Allen, University of Pittsburgh

  • Isobel Mckenna, The Timeship

  • Chiara Zucchelli, King's College London

  • Daniel Star, Boston University

  • Adam van Sertima, Champlain College of Vermont

  • Carol-Anne Calder

  • Isaac Kean, University of Cambridge

  • Naomi Beecroft, University of Wollongong

  • Benjamin Goldberg, University of South Florida

  • Greg Frost-Arnold, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

  • M. Hernandez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  • Alisa Bokulich, Boston University

  • Sophie Keeling, University of Barcelona

  • Marika Rose, University of Winchester

  • James Humphries, University of Glasgow

  • Jane Dryden, Mount Allison University

  • Sindre Brennhagen, University of Oslo

  • Wesley Cray, Texas Christian University

  • Odin Kroeger, University of Vienna

  • Marius Backmann, LSE

  • Tarquin Holmes, LSE

  • Amelia Horgan, University of Essex

  • Elias Anttila, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • Charles Beasley, London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Livia von Samson, Humboldt University of Berlin

  • Justin Snedegar, University of St Andrews

  • Shoko Kinoshita, Keio University

  • Karoliina Pulkkinen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  • Errol Lord, University of Pennsylvania

  • Rosa Vince, University of Sheffield

  • Jack R Leff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  • Russell Webster, BGSU

  • Sukaina Hirji, University of Pennsylvania

  • Tyler John, Rutgers University—New Brunswick

  • Mark Alfano, Macquarie university

  • Danny Krämer, University of Erfurt, Germany

  • Daniel Estrada, New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Naomi Corlett, University College Dublin

  • David M. Frank, Brown University

  • Kelli D. Potter, Utah Valley University

  • Masashi Kasaki, Nagoya University

  • Tom O'Shea, University of Roehampton

  • Soazig Le Bihan, University of Montana

  • Carl B. Sachs, Marymount University

  • David Ludwig, Wageningen University and Research

  • Henry Schiller, University of Texas at Austin

  • Matt Whitlock, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Janet D. Stemwedel, San Jose State University

  • James Camien McGuiggan, Trinity College, Dublin

  • Gen Eickers

  • Catherine Flick, De Montfort University

  • Anthony Dardis, Hofstra University

  • Genevieve Hayman, Georgetown University

  • Chris Register, Princeton University

  • Sergio Tenenbaum, University of Toronto

  • Erich Hatala Matthes, Wellesley College

  • Philip Schwarz

  • Brian Montgomery, Independent Scholar

  • Victória Karoline Ramos de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Ceará

  • Luke Roelofs, New York University

  • L. Syd M Johnson, Upstate Medical University

  • Elena Falco, University College London

  • Mary Kate McGowan, Wellesley College

  • Janet van Bilsen, King's College London

  • Fabio Tollon, Fabio Tollon

  • Jesse Prinz, City University of New York

  • Nicholaos Jones, The University of Alabama in Huntsville

  • Alisa Carse, Georgetown University

  • Brendan Hogan, New York University

  • Jordan Baker, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

  • Jake Jackson, Temple University

  • Christa M. Johnson, University of Dayton

  • Michael Randall Barnes, University of Oklahoma

  • Manasa Gopakumar, Temple University

  • Julie R. Klein, Villanova University

  • Cathleen Muller, Marist College

  • Alice Gibson, Kingston University

  • John Farley, Hofstra University

  • Paul Giladi, Manchester Metropolitan University

  • Shieva Kleinschmidt, University of Southern California

  • Leif Hancox-Li, Capital One

  • Elizabeth Victor, William Paterson University

  • Alexander Carty, Wilfrid Laurier University

  • Marina Baldissera Pacchetti

  • Stephanie Kapusta, Dalhousie University

  • Derek A. Michaud, University of Maine

  • Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University

  • Grace Paterson, University of Vienna

  • Paul Giladi, Manchester Metropolitan University

  • Janella K Baxter, Washington University

  • Justin Caouette, Bridgewater State University/Northeastern University

  • Shelley Lynn Tremain, BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

  • Ian McKeachie, Princeton University

  • Ryan Gabriel Windeknecht, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Ellen Fridland, King's College London

  • Erman Sozudogru, University College London

  • Annette Martín, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Henry James Garrett

  • Anne K. Knafl, University of Chicago Library

  • Yong Xin Hui, University of Pittsburgh

  • Rebecca Scott, Harper College

  • Stephen Ferguson, Fordham University

  • Lynne Tirrell, University of Connecticut

  • Kristina Grob, University of South Carolina Sumter

  • Dr Gareth Davies, Clinical psychologist

  • Justin Vlasits, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

  • Laurencia Sáenz-Benavides, Universidad de Costa Rica

  • Heidi Schmidt, University of Kentucky

  • Lucas Johnston, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  • Emily Morgan, University of Sheffield (BA Hons Philosophy 2011)

  • Vanessa Carr, Freie Universität Berlin

  • Sterling Hall, Villanova University

  • Andrew Fenton, Dalhousie University

  • Blake Francis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  • Catherine Dale, UCL

  • Danielle M. Wenner, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Carolina Flores, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

  • Alex R. Steers-McCrum, The Graduate Center, CUNY

  • Arianna Falbo, Brown University

  • Justin Skirry, Nebraska Wesleyan University

  • JJ Lang, Stanford University

  • Alison Reiheld, SIUE

  • Fareed Awan, McGill University

  • Barrett Emerick, St. Mary's College of Maryland

  • Mel Andrews, University of Cincinnati

  • Jonathan Lewis, Dublin City University

  • Sean Valles, Michigan State University

  • Stephen Cunningham-Bryant, UC Davis

  • Corwin Aragon, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  • Aaron Lee, University of Oregon

  • Robin L. Zebrowski, Beloit College

  • Dan Hicks, UC Merced

  • Rosie Fogarty

  • Marley Lobambola, University of Glasgow

  • John Lawless, Utica College

  • Mijke van der Drift, Royal College of Art

  • Joe Slater, University of St Andrews

  • Dana Grabelsky, CUNY Graduate Center

  • Sara Protasi, University of Puget Sound

  • Ian Olasov, CUNY Graduate Center

  • Brendan Rome, Villanova University

  • Kathleen Creel, Stanford University

  • B. R. George, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Paul Kelleher, University of Wisconsin–Madison

  • Samuel Asarnow, Macalester College

  • Ted Shear, University of Colorado Boulder

  • William Driver, Northeastern University

  • Devin Morse, Columbia University

  • Eric Janec, Binghamton University

  • Aadita Chaudhury, York University

  • Mark N Lance, Georgetown University

  • Karen Frost-Arnold, Hobart & William Smith Colleges

  • Torsten Menge, Northwestern University in Qatar

  • Taylor Coles, University of Pittsburgh

  • Lia Elwonger, University of Nebraska Omaha

  • A.G. Holdier, University of Arkansas

  • Josh Wilburn, Wayne State University

  • Katie Stockdale, University of Victoria

  • Joe Glover, University of Iowa

  • Damian Melamedoff-Vosters, University of Toronto

  • Amber L. Griffioen, University of Konstanz

  • Tim Elmo Feiten, University of Cincinnati

  • Bryan W. Van Norden, Vassar College

  • Emily Mathias, University of South Carolina

  • Simona Capisani, Harvard University

  • Melissa Jacquart, University of Cincinnati

  • Andrej Markov, University of Bonn, Leftyband

  • Yiftach Fehige, University of Toronto

  • Jeremy R. Smith, Western University

  • Carolyn Dicey Jennings, University of California, Merced

  • Jordan Pascoe, Manhattan College

  • Dom Taylor, Carleton University

  • Richard Zach, University of Calgary

  • Alexander Offord, University of Toronto

  • Jonathan McKinney, University of Cincinnati

  • Daira Hopwood

  • Charlotte Wrigley, "Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg"

  • "Gary L Herstein, Ph.D. (retired)", National Coalition of Independent Scholars

  • Julia Muñoz

  • Patrick Gamez, Missouri University of Science & Technology

  • Micah T. Lewin, "Georgia State University, Perimeter College"

  • Megan Zane, "California State University, SB"

  • Scott B. Ritner, Temple University

  • Simon Evnine, University of Miami

  • TJ Perkins, University of Utah

  • Seth Goldwasser, University of Pittsburgh

  • Mark N Lance, Georgetown University

  • Helen De Cruz, Saint Louis University

  • Amanda Coolidge, BCcampus

  • David L. Barack, University of Pennsylvania

  • Matthew J Brown, The University of Texas at Dallas

  • Owen Alldritt, Emory University

  • David Spindle, Southern Nazarene University

  • Jimena Clavel Vázquez, University of Tartu

  • Katrina L. Sifferd, Elmhurst University

  • Keshav Singh, Syracuse University

  • Breton van Schubert, University of Guelph

  • Kira Tomsons, Douglas College

  • Jonathan Kaplan, Oregon State University

  • Daniel Garber, Princeton University

  • Cynthia Stark, University of Utah

  • Aline Medeiros Ramos, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

  • Donovan Irven

  • Joshua Moufawad-Paul, York University

  • Nate Sheff, University of Connecticut

  • Zach Thornton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Mark Satta, Wayne State University

  • Katherine Ritchie, "University of California, Irvine"

  • Rosa St John, Princeton Theological Seminary

  • Raquel Fernández Vidal, University of Nottingham

  • Schuyler Sturm, University of Florida

  • J. Robert Loftis, Lorain County Community College

  • J. Mamana, University of Cambridge

  • Serene J. Khader, CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College

  • Nate Charlow, University of Toronto

  • Will Kelley, Tufts University

  • Dallas Jokic, McGill University

  • Koshka Duff, University of Nottingham

  • Carl Pierer, Ecole Normale Supérieure

  • Bryce Huebner, Georgetown University

  • Hasana Sharp, McGill University

  • Michael L. J. Greer, CUNY -- The Graduate Center

  • Jasmine Selman, University of Sussex

  • Angela Black, Tulsa Community College

  • Catharine Saint-Croix, "University of Minnesota, Twin Cities"

  • Shaun Miller

  • Ethan Mills, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

  • Patricia Marechal, Northwestern University

  • Bruce Janz, University of Central Florida

  • Daniel Wilson, Daniel Wilson

  • Edward Schwartz, "University of California, Berkeley"

  • Kristopher G. Phillips, Southern Utah University

  • Sarah Robins, University of Kansas

  • Jacob Metcalf, Data & Society Research Inst.

  • Maggie Fife, CUNY Graduate Center

  • Will Stafford, "University of California, Irvine"

  • Vanessa Bentley, University of Central Oklahoma

  • Martin Miragoli

  • Adam Schipper, Queen's University

  • Jennifer M Morton, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

  • Philippe Chuard, Southern Methodist University

  • Jens van 't Klooster, KU Leuven/UvA

  • Juniper Colwell, Marquette U

  • Matthew Lindauer, "Brooklyn College, City University of New York"

  • Myisha Cherry, University of California, Riverside

  • Clinton Peter Verdonschot, Utrecht University

  • Gretchen Ellefson, Southern Utah University

  • Ashley Comstock, College of St. Scholastica

  • Julia Ftacek, Western Michigan University

  • Victor Kumar, Boston University

  • Jolene Zubrow, University of Memphis

  • Andrew Tedder, Czech Academy of Sciences

  • Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic, Aarhus University

  • Joshua Gualtieri, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • Nate Adams, University of Virginia

  • Angela Sun, University of Michigan

  • Evan Washington, University of California, Berkeley

  • Donald C. Ainslie, University of Toronto

  • Maureen Linker, University of Michigan-Dearborn

  • Jason Lee Byas, University of Michigan

  • Chris Goto-Jones, University of Victoria

  • Emma Tobin, University College London

  • Daniel Abrahams, University of Glasgow

  • Carol Hay, University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • John Grey, Michigan State University

  • Hannah Law

  • Nathan Robert Howard, Texas A&M

  • silke-maria weineck, University of Michigan

  • Shagun Varma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Eskil Elling, Northwestern University

  • Megan Delehanty, University of Calgary

  • Astrid Coppock

  • Michaela Manson, University of Toronto

  • Clayton Littlejohn, KCL

  • Cassie Finley, University of Iowa

  • Lisa Forsberg, University of Oxford

  • Kevin McDonough, McGill University

  • Johnathan C Flowers, Worcester State University

  • Thomas Wilk, Widener University

  • Sarah Wieten, Stanford University School of Medicine

  • Noah Friedman-Biglin, San José State University

  • Richard Rowland, University of Leeds

  • Emily R. Douglas, PhD Candidate, McGill University

  • Michael Crawford

  • Getty Lustila, Northeastern University

  • Eric Schliesser, University of Amsterdam

  • Andrew Lopez, Queen's University

  • James Francis Collins

  • Nicole Fice, Western University

  • Kristen R. Collins, Mercatus Center, George Mason University

  • Vernon W. Cisney, Gettysburg College

  • Arianne Shahvisi, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

  • Meena Krishnamurthy, Queen’s University

  • Paul L. Franco, University of Washington

  • Alex James Miller Tate, King’s College London

  • Daniel J. Singer, University of Pennsylvania

  • Alessio Bucci

  • Scott Edgar, Saint Mary's University, Halifax

  • Jeremy Fried, University of Oklahoma

  • Jan Baedke, Ruhr University Bochum

  • Rileigh Jackson, Queen’s University

  • Matt Bennett, University of Essex

  • Os Keyes, University of Washington

  • Jan Baedke, Ruhr University Bochum

  • Natalie Mathes, CUNY Graduate Center

  • Nora Berenstain, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Angela Mendelovici, Western University

  • Derek Braverman, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Sandy Hamida, University of California, Berkeley

  • Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech

  • Patricia Blanchette, University of Notre Dame

  • Marabel Riesmeier, University of Münster

  • Elanor Taylor, Johns Hopkins University

  • Shannon Brick, CUNY Graduate Center

  • Shawn Huberdeau, Concordia University

  • Dana Howard, Ohio State University

  • Phillip Torres, Leibniz Universität Hannover

  • Jennifer Whyte, University of Pittsburgh

  • Andrew Stewart, University of Southern California

  • Anthony Stoner, Grad Student, UC Riverside

  • Luca Struble, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  • Rosie Worsdale, University of Cambridge

  • Anne-Kathrin Koch, University of Vienna

  • Joa Aline Käis, University of Helsinki

  • Siobhan Mc Manus, National Autonomous University of Mexico

  • Nathan Kellen, Owensboro Community & Technical College

  • Victor Gijsbers, Universiteit Leiden

  • Lillian Cicerchia, Free University of Berlin

  • Andrew Stewart, University of Southern California

  • Blake van Roon Freier, University of Waterloo

  • Gustavo Oliva de Oliveira, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

  • Samantha Copeland, Delft University of Technology

  • Adriana Clavel-Vazquez, University of Oxford

  • Genae Matthews, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  • Rich Booher, De Anza College

  • Louis Leary, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  • Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Ruhr University Bochum

  • Emelia Miller, UMass Amherst

  • Jason Read, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine

  • Jacob Stump, Northeastern University

  • Rebecca Mullen, Princeton University

  • Jordan Davis, Colorado State University

  • Trevor Pearce, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  • Lauren Leydon-Hardy, Amherst College

  • Preston Lennon, The Ohio State University

  • Daniella Meehan, University of Glasgow

  • Christopher Menard, University of Ottawa

  • Sofia Blanco Sequeiros, University of Helsinki

  • Adam Burgos, Bucknell University

  • Tanya Dushatska, University of Toronto

  • Jeffrey Bell, Southeastern Louisiana University

  • Dana Francisco Miranda, University of Massachusetts Boston

  • Matt Hare, Kingston University London

  • Tereza Hendl, LMU Munich & University of Augsburg

  • Jill Gordon, Colby College

  • Minerva Ahumada, Loyola University Chicago, AC

  • Kino Zhao, University of California, Irvine

  • Stephen M. Downes, University of Utah

  • Alysha Kassam, University of California Irvine

  • John R. Miller, University of Victoria

  • Michael Bennett McNulty, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Sian Hawthorne, SOAS, University of London

  • Jennifer Jill Fellows, Douglas College

  • Carrie D Shanafelt, Fairleigh Dickinson University

  • J. Brendan Ritchie

  • Charlie Spira, Boston University

  • Trystan S. Goetze, Dalhousie University

  • Rima Basu, Claremont McKenna College

  • Gabbrielle Johnson, Claremont McKenna College

  • Vishnu Sridharan, University of Southern California

  • Zain Raza, University of Toronto

  • Lauren Freeman, University of Louisville

  • Rune Nyrup, University of Cambridge

  • Em McClure, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

  • Samia Hesni, Boston University

  • Kenny Easwaran, Texas A&M University

  • Rosemary Twomey Queens College CUNY

  • Alex Bryant, McMaster University

  • Dr. Veronica Ivy, College of Charleston

  • Chris Blake-Turner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Alice MacLachlan, York University

  • Melanie Spurling, Georgetown University

  • Blake Hereth (ze/zir), University of Arkansas

  • Lauren Ashwell, Bates College

  • Kevin J.S. Zollman, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Gabriel Ferreira das Neves, Graduate Student, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

  • John R. Harris, Texas Christian University

  • Lori Gruen, Wesleyan University, CT

  • Tom Brown, University of Liverpool

  • Blake Hestir, TCU

  • Nancy Bauer, Tufts University

  • Cheryl Frazier, University of Oklahoma

  • Aja Watkins, Boston University

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