Radical Philosophy Society Unrecognized

Mission
Radical Philosophy Society exists to facilitate the thinking together of philosophy and activism in the Hampshire community. Members struggle against capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, disability discrimination, environmental ruin, and all other forms of domination. We also oppose substituting new forms of authoritarianism for the ones we are now fighting. Our efforts are guided by the vision of a society founded on cooperation and responsibility instead of competition. We believe that fundamental change requires broad social upheavals but also opposition to the intellectual support systems that make possible exploitative and dehumanizing social structures. We employ radical traditions including (but not limited to) feminism, phenomenology, Marxism, anarchism, post-structuralism, post-colonial theory and environmentalism. Our activities for the semester will mainly focus on discussions, conference attendance, student panels and other all-community events. We consider the enterprise of radical philosophy inherently interdisciplinary and welcome persons not trained in philosophy. Furthermore, we actively acknowledge that people of non-normative gender and racial identities as well as their voices have been historically oppressed in and excluded from philosophical communities. To that end, we feel that our meeting space ought to reflect our values and function as a space that interrogates oppression within our own communities.

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Event History
Falguni Sheth, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race

Maple Razsa, Bastards of Utopia

Neil Roberts, ''What Would Fanon Say About Gaza? ''(April 14, 2009)

Barbara Beznec and Andrej Kurnik, The Erased: Citizenship and Exclusion in the New Europe

Resources
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Organizations
Society for Student Philosophers

Radical Philosophy Association (no affiliation)

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Publications and Journals
Radical Philosophy

Ephemeris: The Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy