Enjoy this interview excerpt from Issue No.3 of our journal in celebration of International Women’s Day, where we talk with the authors of Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life about: the history of analytic philosophy and it’s recent historicization; the role and contributions of their book’s subjects, the Wartime Quartet, in challenging conventional historical narratives; the significance of the humanities in contemporary philosophical discourse; the importance of methodological pluralism; as well as how their on-going projects have helped to combat the under-representation of women in the canon, curriculum and practice of philosophy.

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In this interview we spoke to Crispin Sartwell about what he terms the 'Personal Turn' of philosophy, his experience studying under Richard Rorty, and the Analytic/Continental divide, the future of the philosophical academies with the in-coming Trump term for the USA, and much more. Crispin Sartwell is an American academic, philosopher, and journalist who was a faculty member of the philosophy department at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania until he retired in 2023.