CFP: Special Issue of Plí: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy: Continental Philosophy and Global South Perspectives (deadline: Aug. 15, 2024)

Plí: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its upcoming special issue on “Continental Philosophy and Global South Perspectives”. As an esteemed platform for rigorous philosophical discourse, Plí encourages contributions that explore the intersections between Continental philosophy and diverse perspectives emanating from the Global South. Scope and Topics […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Elena Ruíz on Implicit Bias

The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) concerns “implicit bias.” You may recall that, for a number of years, the concept of implicit bias dominated discussions at the Feminist Philosophers blog and other contexts elsewhere in philosophy. In these discussions, the concept of implicit bias served as a versatile causal […]

Lecture by Johnathan Flowers: Gender as Affect: A Cross-Cultural Aesthetics of Gender, SOAS/Zoom, Mar. 22, 2024, 16:00 GMT

The Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies is very pleased to invite you to the 21st Lecture in the SOAS World Philosophies Lecture Series.  The Lecture will be delivered by Johnathan Flowers, Assistant Professor of  Philosophy, California State University, Northridge Title: Gender as Affect: a Cross-Cultural Aesthetics of Gender Summary This talk will bring together Japanese Aesthetics and American […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On MAiD

This post is the first in a series that I am calling “Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday)”. For on many Thursdays henceforth, I will post a variously provocative, memorable, unforgettable, edgy, etc. passage or sentence (or maybe just a word) that I read somewhere–whether in an article or book, on social media […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, March 20, 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 […]

Melvin Lee Rogers on Aaron Bushnell and the Politics of Evasion

[This post has been reprinted from Facebook with permission from Melvin Lee Rogers] By Melvin Lee Rogers Sigh. It has become customary to attribute a multitude of tragic occurrences in the United States to mental health issues. It seems inconceivable to a great many of us that the killing of Palestinians so distant and unrelated […]

All That’s Happening on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

It was a busy Fall insofar as I was preoccupied with the last production stages of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. December rolled around and the publication of the book took place on the 14th, which publication coincided with Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 on the 14th and 15th. Then, January was […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Amelia Hicks

­­Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and seventh 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 […]