CFP: Special Issue of Puncta: Critical Phenomenology of the We (deadline: Apr. 30, 2024)

CALL FOR PAPERS Puncta. Journal of Critical Phenomenology Special Issue: “Critical Phenomenology of the We” – Theme Phenomenology offers not only incisive analyses of intentionality, experience, selfhood, empathy and interpersonal understanding, but also quite sophisticated investigations of collective intentionality, affective sharing, social participation, communal experience, and group-identity. Indeed, while starting out with an interest in the […]

CFA: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known in Post-Apartheid South Africa, University of Johannesburg/Online, Jun. 20-22, 2024 (deadline: Mar. 31, 2024)

The African Centre for Epistemology of Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at the University of Johannesburg invites abstract submissions for: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known in Post-Apartheid South Africa ACEPS and Hector Pieterson Community Centre (Soweto) 20–22nd June 2024 Keynotes Jennifer Lackey  Antoinette Sithole Call for Abstracts We live in a world riddled with epistemic […]

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 […]