Project Vox: The Second Decade (2025-2026)
Scholarship on modern philosophy has remained focused on canonical (nearly always male) figures. For instance, the Norton Introduction to Philosophy contains nothing written by a woman between Plato and the 1950s except for a single page of text (out of 1,150 pages). Similarly, Wikipedia entries on modern women philosophers can be insubstantial, inaccurate and in some cases derogatory. These problems in scholarship, teaching and research reflect broader barriers within North American philosophy, where gender equality remains elusive.
For the past 8 years, this project team addressed these challenges by contributing to Project Vox, an open-access, peer‑reviewed resource dedicated to highlighting marginalized voices in philosophy. In 2025-2026, the team wrote and published its first entry entirely in Portuguese, documenting the life and thought of 19th century Brazilian feminist philosopher Nisia Floresta. Team members also researched Europe's first published philosopher of African descent, Anton Wilhelm Amo, in preparation for the completion, review and publication of Amo’s entry next year.
Team members also organized a spring workshop to expand outreach to local public schools and collaborated with the Assessing and Improving Girls' and Women's Math and STEM Identity Bass Connections team to organize a Wikipedia edit-a-thon, which the teams hope to repeat annually.
Timing
Summer 2025 – Spring 2026
Team Outputs
Nisia Floresta entries in English/Portugese
Project Vox: The Second Decade (Interactive display at the Fortin Foundation Bass Connections Showcase, April 15, 2026)
Team profile
Crediting
See earlier related team, Project Vox: Expanding the Philosophical Canon in the Age of AI (2024-2025) and Project Vox (2026-2027).