Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Alex Byrne on Gender and Disability

The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) extends my examination, in previous “quote of the week” posts, of the distinctly tendentious ways in which philosophers deploy ableist language to signify allegedly natural defect with respect to a purportedly universal intelligence and the material and institutional effects of these discursive practices. […]

CFP: Women in Indian Thought: Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary (deadline: May 31, 2024)

Three of us (Muzaffar Ali, Savitribai phule Pune University: Richa Shukla, IIT Bhubaneswar; Mansi Rathour, OP Jindal Global University) will be co-editing a volume, Women in Indian Thought: Ancient, Modern and Contemporary. The main idea behind co-editing this volume is to discuss and bring to the fore previously neglected voices of Indian women thinkers and philosophers. We invite […]

Why Should Philosophers with an Interest in Social Justice Care about Veganism? An Introductory Post to a Series on Veganism (Guest post)

Why Should Philosophers with an Interest in Social Justice Care about Veganism? An Introductory Post to a Series on Veganism by Tracy Isaacs As a feminist philosopher who works primarily on theories of collective action, collective responsibility, and collective obligation, I have spent a great deal of my career thinking about structural injustice and the […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Joe Stramondo on Trans Athletes and Id*ots

The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) aims to further expose ableist language and its political histories, as well as underscore the contested status that the notion of intelligence should hold for philosophers. Indeed, an anti-ableist conceptualization of disability—viz. philosophy of disability—should assume that neither the notion of intelligence nor […]

CEASEFIRE NOW!

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

From Philosophy of m/Madness to m/Mad Philosophy, Oxford, Sept. 25-26, 2024

EVENT DESCRIPTION The conference will explore what it means to think about m/Madness philosophically. The title reflects our interest in ‘madness’  as both a speculative (lower case ‘m’) and a practical (upper case ‘M’) term. Furthermore, it reflects our interest in the different ways in which m/Madness might be approached – either as an object […]

CFP: The Future of Race in Canada (deadline: Jun. 15, 2024)

We invite contribution proposals for an edited multidisciplinary volume addressing the future of race in Canada, broadly construed. Topics may be approached from any discipline or inter- or multidisciplinary perspectives. Possible topics include but are not limited to Canadian demographic trends, the increasing politicization of DEI, race-based polarization and conflict, legislative or institutional policy, shifting […]