This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) sheds light on how the relatively recent deployment in bioethics of the term conscientious objection enables (neo)liberal eugenic goals. As a philosopher whose thinking has been formatively influenced by Foucault, my philosophical motivations derive in large part from a desire to problematize (in Foucault’s sense) what is […]
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Image: 4 squares of lines, one inside the other, at the centre of the squares are the words “Cease” and “Fire,” the former above the latter
CFP: 2024 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy, Nov. 21-22, 2024 (deadline: Jul. 24, 2024)
2024 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy Dates: November 21-22 (no fee, participation is free) Theme: Rivers and mountains in environmental philosophies in Asia Rivers are flowing, ever-changing and becoming. Mountains tend to be represented as more static aspects of local historical, cultural and natural landscapes. Rivers and mountains are at the heart of many […]
Upcoming Symposium on Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, Jun. 3, 2024
As I indicated in a previous post, a symposium on Robert Chapman’s groundbreaking new book, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, will take place on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on June 3. The symposium will comprise commentaries on the book by Mich Ciurria, Jane Dryden, Johnathan Flowers, and Sofia Jeppson, as well as a response to these […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On Arguments for Veganism, Sustainability, and Accessibility
This week’s quote of the week (though it’s only Thursday) concerns arguments for veganism and in particular follows from a defense for veganism that was offered in the discussion period of a recent online event. Last week, I attended a session of The Collective Ethics Seminar in which Tracy Isaacs gave a presentation entitled “Meat-Eating […]
YOGA-ANTICOLONIAL PHILOSOPHY: An Overview (Guest post)
YOGA-ANTICOLONIAL PHILOSOPHY: An Overview By Shyam Ranganathan Who Is This Book For? I wrote Yoga—Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action Focused Guide to Practice (Singing Dragon 2024) for students of Yoga and philosophy in the broad sense. It is written for people who have a practice of “yoga” or teach yoga, or are interested in the history […]
CFP: Dr. Catherine E. Hundleby, Special Issue of Informal Logic on the Work of Catherine E. Hundleby (deadline: Sept. 1, 2024)
Guest editors: Moira Howes, Trent University (mhowes@trentu.ca) Audrey Yap, University of Victoria (ayap@uvic.ca) Contributions are invited that will address themes and arguments arising from the work of Cate Hundleby. Submissions should be sent to the guest editors before September 1, 2024. https://www.uwindsor.ca/crrar/466/call-papers-dr-catherine-e-hundleby
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On Agency, Autonomy, and MAiD
This week’s quote of the week (though it’s only Thursday) returns us to earlier discussions of MAiD (on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and here) in which I point out that proponents of this mechanism of eugenics generally hold dated understandings about contemporary forms of power (its character, how it coalesces, how it operates, etc.), assuming facile liberal […]
Dialogues on Disability with T Virgil Murthy and John Henry Reilly
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the ninth-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m 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 discussion with disabled philosophers about a range […]
CFP: Racism, Nationalism, and Xenophobia, Online, May 23-24, 2024 (deadline: May 5, 2024)
It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of […]
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