Op-eds and more by and about Professor Mercer:

• Christia Mercer. The Philosophical Origins of Patriarchy. The Nation. July 1, 2019.
• Chrsitia Mercer. Empowering Philosophy. Presidential Address to the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. January, 2020
• Christia Mercer. Descartes Debt to Teresa of Ávila, or Why we Should Work on Women in the History of Philosophy. August, 2016.
• Chrsitia Mercer. Leibniz and Spinoza on Substance and Mode. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
  Vol. 81, No. 1. July, 2020.
• Christia Mercer. The Philosophical Roots of Western Misogyny. Philosophical Topics, Gendered Oppression and s Intersections Fall 2018, Vol. 46. No. 2. Fall 2018.
• Chrsitia Mercer. Leibniz on Knowledge and God. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 76 (4):531-550. July, 2002.
• Chrsitia Mercer. Anne Conway’s Metaphysics of Sympathy. Chapter 3: Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women’s Philosophical Thought (pp.49-73)
• Christia Mercer. Reading gives people in prison hope. But some states want to take their books away. NBC News. January 25, 2018. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Christia Mercer. The Platonism at the Core of Leibniz’s Philosophy. Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy. Edited by Douglas Hedley and Sarah Hutton. July 2008.
• Christia Mercer. Prefacing the Theodicy. New Essays on Leibniz’s Theodicy. Oxford University Press. April, 2014.
• Christia Mercer. Leibniz’s Metaphysics, Chpt. 6. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Christia Mercer. The Philosophical Roots of Western Misogyny. Philosophical Topics, Gendered Oppression and s Intersections Fall 2018, Vol. 46. No. 2. Fall 2018.
• Christia Mercer. The Methodology of the Meditations: Tradition and Innovation. The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations. Cambridge University Press. pp. 23-47 (2014)
• Christia Mercer.  Leibniz, Nature and Freedom Edited by: Donald Rutherford and J.A. Cover. Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Chrsitia Mercer. The Contextualist Revolution in Early Modern Philosophy. Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 57, no. 3. Johns Hopkins University Press. July 2019
• Chrsitia Mercer. Seventeenth-Century Universal Sympathy. Sympathy: A History. Edited by: Eric Schliesser. Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Chrsitia Mercer. Anne Conway’s Response to Cartesianism. Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy concerning God, Christ, and Creation, Chapter 44.  February, 2019.
• Christia Mercer. Descartes Is Not Our Father. The New York Times. September 25, 2017.
• James S. Kunen. Opening Minds Behind Bars. Columbia Magazine. Summer 2017.
• Aisha Elliot. The Philosophy of Change. The Spoke.
  • Ms. Elliot is a formerly incarcerated student of Mercer’s who wrote about her education.
• Olivia Goldhill. One of Descartes’ most famous ideas was first articulated by a woman. Quartz. May 13, 2017.
• Featured in Readings and Talks. The New Yorker. May 1, 2017.
• Mike McPhate. California Today: A Look at the Anti-Burning Man. The New York Times. April 19, 2017.
  • Mercer was one of two philosophers asked to speak at the Bombay Beach Biennale. See an image of her appearance here.
• Christia Mercer. Gender, Class and Incarceration. Ms. Magazine. September 16, 2016.
• Christia Mercer. Never mind a second chance. Our incarcerated women need a first one. The Guardian. August 17, 2016.
• CBS This Morning. Why NY is expanding top tier higher education in prisons. CBS News. July 9, 2016.
• Nick Anderson. For the poor in the Ivy League, a full ride isn’t always what they imagined. The Washington Post. May 16, 2016.
• Christia Mercer. Update: Columbia University divesting from private prison companies. Why other schools should too. The Washington Post. Originally published July 15, updated September 13, 2015.
• Gary Shapiro. Philosophy Professor Teaches Core Classics at Women’s Prison. Columbia News. August 24, 2015.
• Christia Mercer. The lessons of Juneteenth still matter 150 years later. The Washington Post. June 18, 2015.
• Christia Mercer. Radical Pop-Up Schools: A new way to reach educationally disadvantaged communities. The Washington Post. June 16, 2015.
• Andrew Janiak and Christia Mercer. Philosophy’s gender bias: For too long, scholars say, women have been ignored. The Washington Post. April 28, 2015.
• Christia Mercer. I teach philosophy at Columbia. But some of my best students are inmates. The Washington Post. March 24, 2015
• Christia Mercer. Op-Ed: The Hard Truths About Prison Sexual Violence. Take Part. March 5, 2015.
• Christia Mercer. Sorry, Fox: Obama Was Right About Christianity’s ‘Terrible Deeds.’ Talking Points Memo. February 6, 2015.