Orange Shirt Day (National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada)

Description of image above: shows an orange t-shirt which depicts two eagle feathers tied together and “EVERY CHILD MATTERS” at top. In the middle, the t-shirt reads: “Orange Shirt Day” September 30. Below the date, appears this message: “Orange Shirt Day recognizes the harm done to generations of children by the Indian Residential Schools and […]

Neurodiversity and Neurodivergence: The Epistemic, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Conceiving Differences versus Deficits, Online/Bayreuth, Oct. 10-11, 2024

This workshop brings together people working in various areas of philosophy whose work pertains to research on neurodiversity  and neurodivergence or has implications for our understanding of it. The neurodiversity movement emerged in the early 1990s as a joint action of activist autistic individuals who, through online connections, began raising awareness of various problems associated […]

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), Online, December 11-13, 2024: Final Program and Registration Information

I’m very happy to announce that the final program and registration information are available for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), which I am organizing with Jonathan Wolff and with the support of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 is free, will take place online, and […]

Preliminary Program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, Online, December 11-13, 2024

I have copied below the preliminary program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 which takes place online December 11-13, 2024, 13:00-18:00 GMT/UK Time (=ET+5). Information about registration for this event will appear here soon. Check back often! (All times in GMT/UK Time=ET +5) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 13:00-13:05     INTRODUCTIONS Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Sarah Gorman

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and fourteenth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for […]

CFP: Special Issue of Informal Logic on the Work of Catherine E. Hundleby (new deadline: Dec. 15, 2024)

New Deadline: December 15, 2024 Guest editors: Moira Howes, Trent University (mhowes@trentu.ca) and Audrey Yap, University of Victoria (ayap@uvic.ca) Contributions are invited that will address themes and arguments arising from the work of Catherine Hundleby such as argumentation and gender, adversarial argument, standpoint epistemology and argumentation, argument repair, critical thinking education and research, and emotion and […]

CFP: Trans Philosophy, An Issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (deadline: Apr. 29, 2025)

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly: 13.2: Trans Philosophy Guest Editors: Perry Zurn and Talia Mae Bettcher In “Can the ‘Other’ of Philosophy Speak?” Judith Butler argues that the discipline of philosophy has lost itself to its evil twin: the excluded philosophical engagements occurring outside of that discipline, often under the name “Theory.” From the very outset, trans […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 8 a.m. ET

“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. …  I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]

CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)

This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]