“What might the factors be that contribute to [logic’s] lack of diversity? At the undergraduate level, students from less socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds may lack information about [the philosophy major or about logic as a possible field of specialization]. In some cases, less-privileged students may lack the opportunity to take [logic at all (for example, because […]
MAiD for Addicts and Mad People (Guest post)
MAiD for Addicts and Mad People by T. Virgil Murthy Months ago, I wrote an article for the Addict Collective blog titled “Does the 2024 MAiD Expansion Apply to Addicts?” I never published it—I reasoned it was probably unwise to remind the MAiD architects about our existence—but my confusion and worry steadily mounted. Press releases […]
Remembering Catherine Hundleby, CRCs, and the Exclusion of Disabled Philosophers in Canada
After Catherine Hundleby’s death on August 26th was announced, I wanted to write a post about my sentiments and interactions with her, in part because they seemed distinct from the sentiments that other feminist philosophers began to express. Prominent among the remarks that others made in memory of Catherine were testaments about the foundational role […]
Reproducing Eugenic Injustice: Virtual Presentation to Hypatia 40th Anniversary Conference, Sept. 9, 2023
Hello! I’d like to begin by giving a description of what appears on the screen. I’m a white woman with short hair. I’m wearing large plastic glasses and long earrings. Behind me, to my right, there’s a clock on the wall and a window with curtains. Behind me, to my left, there’s a ceiling fan. […]
American Political Science Association (APSA), UNITE HERE Local 11, and Academic Publishing
Last month, I posted the letter that Joan Tronto wrote to the American Political Science Association (APSA) in which she declined the invitation to present a Benjamin Lippincott lecture, as recipient of the Benjamin Lippincott award. In the letter, that is, Tronto eloquently explains that she refuses to accept the award at the conference because […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews August Gorman
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain. I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and first 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 discussion […]
¿Siempre debemos hacerle el bien a la gente?
Una de las preguntas centrales de la filosofía moral es ¿cuándo estamos justificados a no hacerle un bien a alguien? Es decir, si sabemos que hay algo que podemos hacer y que le haría un bien a alguien (entendido este “alguien” en un sentido suficientemente amplio para cubrir tanto a individuos como colectividades, tanto a […]
Publication: When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability
The (penultimate, i.e., uncopyedited) version of my article “When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability” is now on PhilPapers here: https://philpapers.org/rec/TREWMR The article will appear in Mich Ciurria’s special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on feminist approaches to moral responsibility theory. The abstract for the article appears below: In this article, I aim to demonstrate […]
Inaugural Stuart Hall Essay Prize (deadline: Nov. 6, 2023)
The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to invite submissions for the inaugural Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Stuart Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse. The prize will award £2,000 to a selected writer whose […]
Why do we even teach logic, and to whom?
At. A recent meeting of the buenos Aires Logic Group in Argentina, Sara Uckelman, from Durham University in the UK, gave a very interesting talk on the importance of the history of logic. For starters, by “the history of logic”, she did not mean (just) who proved what or who developed which technique, etc. Instead, […]
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