Additional Resources

Public Philosophy and Philosophical Personal Essays

Contemporary examples 

• Agnes Callard's philosophy columns at The Point

• Chloe Cooper-Jones, “Such Perfection,” The Believer

• Amia Srivinisan, "Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?", London Review of Books

• Robin Dembroff, "Why Be Nonbinary?", Aeon

• John Kaag and Clancy Martin, “Dreadful Dads,” Aeon

• Kieran Setiya, "The Problem of 'Living in the Present'", The New York Times

• Regan Penaluna, “How To Corrupt The Youth,” Guernica

• Tom Stern, “The Human and the Octopus”, The Point

• Meghan O'Gieblyn, "Homeschool", n+1

• Profiles of philosophers in The New Yorker: Larissa MacFarquahar on Derek Parfit, Rachel Aviv on Martha Nussbaum, on Han Zhang on Lea Ypi

Venues 

• The Point

• The Stone, the (sadly discontinued!) philosophy column @ The New York Times

• Agora, the philosophy column at The New Statesman

• The philosophy section @ Aeon 

• The philosophy section @ The Los Angeles Review of Books

• The philosophy section @ The Boston Review

• Psyche

• The Raven

• Philosophers Magazine

• Philosophy Now

• The Philosopher

• Public Books

• n+1

• Guernica 

• The Hedgehog Review

• The Atlantic

• Literary / cultural magazines that may or may not be open to public philosophy or philosophical personal essays (won't know till you try!): The Rumpus, Longreads, Lithub, Catapult, Hazlitt, The Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Granta, Paris Review Daily, The Millions, New Inquiry, The Drift

• Major newspapers to try for op-eds: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall St Journal, the Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, USA Today

Advice on crafting and publishing public philosophy

• Barry Lam, "Nonfiction and Narrative Popular Philosophy", Daily Nous

• David V. Johnson, "Ten Rules of Thumb for Op-Ed Writing" (written for philosophers)

• The Op Ed Project, "Tips and Tricks"

• Helen de Cruz and David V. Johnson, “Public Philosophy Editors on Pitching”, and “Public Philosophy Editors on Working with Writers”, APA Blog

• Op Ed submission guide

• Meghan O'Connell, "Revision is My God", The Cut

Essays on the methodology, style and culture of philosophy and academia

• Johnny Thakkar, "On Being An Arsehole", The Point

• Jonny Thakkar, “Examined Life”, The Point

• Tom Stern, “Complications of Philosophy”, The Point

• Bernard Williams, "On Hating and Despising Philosophy", London Review of Books

• Amia Srinivasan, "How to Do Things with Philosophy", European Journal of Philosophy

• Amy Olberding, “The Outsider,” Aeon

• Lucia Ziglioli, "What public philosophy is, and why we need it more than ever", Psyche

• Toril Moi and Jessica Swoboda, "The Speaking Subject", The Point

Philosophy Research Resources

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Wellesley Library philosophy research guide