Jill Stauffer is assistant professor of philosophy and director of the concentration in peace, justice, and human rights at Haverford College. She is currently working on a book called Ethical Loneliness, about the difficulties and possibilities of political reconciliation.

• February 2013: Interview with “We Have Invented a New Form of Death”
  On solitary confinement as “a new form of death, a death-in-life that needs no judicial decision and is not open to scrutiny."
• May 2012: Interview with William Connolly
  The political theorist discusses the dangers of pretending that the personal and the political can be separated.
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  October 2010: Interview with Marianne Constable
  This legal philosopher studies the relationship of speech and silence to law. Also: what does that have to do with justice?
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  January 2009: Interview with Tom Dumm
  A political philosopher describes how misguided American ideas of self-reliance make for an incredibly lonely society.
• October 2006: Interview with Alison Young
  How law governs art, and how art governs law.
• October 2005: Interview with Peter Fitzpatrick
  If we don’t really know what a nation is, how can we know what laws are?
• May 2004: Interview with Silvia Benso
  For this philosopher, ethics is about otherness. So what are the ethical demands of your kitchen spoon?
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  August 2003: Interview with Simon Critchley
  A jet-setting philosopher explains why the ordinary is our only bulwark against meaninglessness.
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  May 2003: Interview with Judith Butler
  Turns out we dehumanize people without knowing it. Judith Butler explains how philosophy can help fix this.