Taking Indigenous Knowledges Seriously, University of Johannesburg/Zoom, Aug. 13-14, 2024

The African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at the University of Johannesburg invites you to: Taking Indigenous Knowledges Seriously  When:              Tuesday 13th– Wednesday 14th August 2024 Where:                 11th Floor Boardroom, UJ on Empire, Johannesburg and https://zoom.us/j/97369538480  Programme: Tuesday 13th August 09:00 – 09:20      Welcome 09:20 – 09:35      Introductions (Veli Mitova) 09:40 – 10:35      Jeanine Ntihirageza […]

The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language

The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernie Lepore and Luvell Anderson, is now available!  Description of the book’s cover: A cartoon image of a half-open mouth next to several speech balloons with the names of the editors on the top right corner. Underneath the image, the title of the book on a […]

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, Online, Dec. 11-13, 2024

Yes, the fifth incarnation of the much-anticipated Philosophy, Disability and Social Change conference is coming soon! Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 will take place online December 11-13, 2024 and will comprise formal presentations, community-building, roundtable discussions, and pathbreaking insights. As with the previous editions of the conference, Jonathan Wolff and I are the co-organizers […]

The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability – Do You Have A Copy?

The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability was published in all formats 7 months ago this week! Thank you for making the book a success! More than six hundred copies of the book have been sold already! If you teach courses in philosophy/theory of disability, or if you want to incorporate cutting-edge philosophy of disability […]

On Another Dianoia Institute Tragedy and “Dire” Circumstances

Last week Daily Nous reported about the latest tragedy with respect to the Dianoia Institute at Australian Catholic University (ACU). I wrote about an earlier episode of this calamity in a previous post. You can find that post here. In the earlier post, I identified both the closing of the Dianoia Institute and other philosophy […]

Congratulations to Our Blogger Mich Ciurria!

The team at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY extends its enthusiastic congratulations to our fellow blogger Mich Ciurria! The American Philosophical Association (APA) has awarded Mich the 2024 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize for their article, “Responsibility’s Double-Binds: The Reactive Attitudes in Conditions of Oppression,” which appeared in The Journal of Applied Philosophy in July 2022. This APA […]