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 Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Stuart Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.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, […]
Say Goodbye to Moral Responsibility Theory As You Know It
My article in Mich CIurria’s forthcoming special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on Feminist Approaches to Moral Responsibility contributes to growing discussions within philosophy about the ways in which and the extent to which philosophers are culpable with respect to the production and perpetuation of unjust social and political arrangements. A central motivational assumption of […]
Are Amy Mullin and Michael Cholbi Experts on MAiD?
As I have pointed out in numerous posts on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, liberal feminist bioethicists/philosophers have been at the forefront of the eugenics movement in Canada for quite some time. So, I wasn’t surprised to see the publication announcement of Amy Mullin and Kayla Wiebe’s recent article in which these liberal feminist bioethicists in the Department […]
Why You Shouldn’t Take Too Seriously This Entry on Disability in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Within both the discipline and profession of philosophy, the exact nature of the differences between two methodological approaches—namely, (so-called) analytic philosophy and (so-called) continental philosophy—has been a contested matter and source of controversy for quite some time, in part because these approaches embody disparate institutional positions with respect to status and prestige. Although analytic philosophy […]
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