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 […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Survey: Race, Gender, Syllabus Tone, Student Resistance, and Student Evaluations in Philosophy-Updated
INFORMED CONSENT INFORMATION KEY INFORMATION: My name is Cecilea Mun, and I am a Philosophy PhD, conducting research the relationship between race, gender, language employed in a syllabus, student resistance, and student evaluations. I am the principal investigator (PI) for this study, titled “Race, Gender, Syllabus Tone, Student Resistance, and Student Evaluations in Philosophy.” You must be […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – A Response to Commentaries on Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ I’m grateful to Shelley Tremain for organizing this symposium. I’m also grateful to Mich Ciurria, Jane Dryden, Johnathan Flowers, and Sofia Jeppsson – all scholars that I have long admired – for their careful engagements with Empire of Normality. I’m […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Money Talks and Moral Responsibility Walks by Sofia Jeppsson
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ In Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality, they lay out a Marxist theory of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disabilities. Industrialization and modern capitalism made a huge difference for society’s view on disability. This is not to say that disability, or equivalent concepts, […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Some Intersectional Concerns about Empire of Normality by Johnathan Flowers
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ If I were to write the title for Chapman’s book, I would call it Empire of Normality: Capitalism and the Rise of the Pathology Paradigm, because the primary aim of the text seems to be not to articulate a thoroughgoing […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – Reflections on Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality by Jane Dryden
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ Robert Chapman’s new book provides a Marxist historical analysis of the development of the “Empire of Normality” alongside the development of capitalism. The “Empire of Normality” is “an apparatus of material relations, social practices, scientific research programmes, bureaucratic mechanisms, economic […]
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