This week, my paper on billionaire philanthropy and academic philosophy was published in a special, open access issue of the Journal of Academic Freedom, titled Philanthropy, Public Funding, and the Future of Academic Freedom. Along with over a dozen other excellent papers, my contribution underscores the corrupting influence of billionaire philanthropy on academia, focusing on academic philosophy. This corrupting influence is, as […]
The APA’s Gaslighting Letter on Palestine
In July, Sara Aronowitz and Reza Hadisi authored a petition calling on the American Philosophical Association (APA) to condemn the war crimes and atrocities in Gaza, express solidarity with Palestinian scholars, and honor the APA’s commitment to the mission of Scholars at Risk (SAR). The petition currently has almost 500 signatures. A few weeks later, the APA board […]
Canadian Philosophy Departments Can Provide Refuge to Fascism’s Scapegoats
The US is a rising fascist regime. Migrant workers are being sent to international concentration camps. Trump is threatening to send addicts and Mad People to modern-day “lunatic asylums.” RFK Jr. wants to send “troubled teens” to “wellness farms,” resonant of the Willowbrooks of the past. Brian Kllmeade from Fox News advocated for the mass extermination of long-term unhoused people by […]
Disability and Moral Responsibility in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies
Friends will know that my main areas of specialization are moral responsibility and critical disability theory. The following is a draft of my forthcoming entry, “Disability and Moral Responsibility,” for the Philosophy and Theory of Disability area of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. This pathbreaking project is being curated by Shelley Tremain for the OUP’s Digital Reference Publications. […]
Techno-fascists are Ruining the World: Get Mad
In this post, I want to reiterate an argument from my paper on LLMs and disaster ableism and emphasize that philosophers must stop discussing technology in isolation from techno-fascism, the prevailing social order. The Western mode of technological development has allowed techno-fascists like Elon Musk to ascend to a position of unchecked autocratic power, from which they […]
Crip-pessimism: The Future of Disability Justice?
The following is the script for my presentation at St. Louis University on 01/31/2025 at 2pm. My slides with alt text can be found here: “The true philosophy of history thus consists in the insight that, in spite of all these endless changes and their chaos and confusion, we yet always have before us only […]
Strawsonian Responsibility and the Capacities Criterion: Three Critiques from the Margins
The following is the script for my presentation at the Eastern APA on 01/11/2025. This is a revised version of an earlier presentation, edited to focus on a common foundation of Strawson’s exempted categories: the capacities criterion, which states that adult neurotypical human beings are exclusively or canonically morally responsible. The special issue of Feminist Philosophy […]
Capitalism, Crisis, & Chronic Fatigue: UnKoch My Philosophy Department for Disability Justice
The following is the script for my presentation for the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 5 conference on Wednesday, December 11th at 14:50 GMT. “If we’re going to give a lot of money, we’ll make darn sure they spend it in a way that goes along with our intent. And if they make a wrong turn […]
Boycott Philosophy & Public Affairs, edited by Anti-Democratic Neoliberal Jason Brennan
Daily Nous has reported that a new editorial team has resurrected the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs (PPA), owned by Wiley. This news comes barely a month after I published a call to action on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY urging philosophers to boycott Wiley and other predatory publishers. Here, I will review some of Wiley’s offenses against PPA’s former editorial board, and […]
Youth Suffrage is Disability Justice! A Coalitional Proposal.
Introduction A youth rights coalition in which I am involved, called the Children’s Voting Colloquium, recently published a petition urging adults to transfer their votes to children in support of youth suffrage. (The reasons behind the pledge are explained in this article in the Guardian). The petition argues that there should be no minimum voting age because ‘political competency,’ which youths […]
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