Hendricks, Philosophy, MAiD, and Eugenics: Making the Connections

What seems to have gone largely unnoticed about the post at Daily Nous by Perry Hendricks is that it attempts to sever any connection between the subject matter of a submission for potential publication and whether the submission is accepted for publication. The implication is that just as there is no systemic correspondence between subject […]

Injusticia Epistémica y Espacio Público según Ángeles Eraña

El nuestro es un espacio público deficiente, injusto, en el que algunos ya saben que no importa lo que los otros digan o piensen porque se pueden descontar fácilmente sus aportaciones, como ignorantes o estúpidas; un espacio en el que la única razón por las que se invitan ciertas voces no es para escucharlas sino […]

Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex

The writing below constitutes an excerpt of the penultimate version of my article “Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex,” which will appear in Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic, a special issue that I’m guest editing for The International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies. The issue should be out by June […]

Por qué la ley española de eutanasia marginaliza a los discapacitados

Al final de un artículo reciente, el filósofo Pablo de Lora a propósito de la reciente proposición de ley orgánica de regulación de la eutanasia por parte del grupo parlamentario socialista en España, ha escrito: Una mejor atención paliativa del dolor y del sufrimiento al final de la vida, o en las condiciones invalidantes y […]

Call For Proposals: Florida Prisons in Uncertain Times, Virtual Conference, Apr. 9-10, 2021 (extended deadline: Jan. 15, 2021)

I am a co-director of Stetson’s Higher Education in Prison program, Community Education Project (CEP). We are hosting a virtual conference, “Florida Prisons in Uncertain Times,” to be held on April 9 and 10, 2021. Here is our Call for Proposals. The deadline for submissions is January 15th, and you can submit your proposal here.   We are focused in Florida […]

Amalia Amaya sobre la Admiración en la Moral

la admiración no es sólo una aceptación o reconocimiento de excelencia, sino que también es algo que se siente de cierta manera y, lo que tal vez es mas importante, nos impulsa a imitar, apoyar, alabar, etc. a quien admiramos. En otras palabras, la admiración es una emoción,

Call For Applications: Wittgenstein and Feminism: Ordinary Language Philosophy’s Contribution to Feminist Theory and Practice, Paris, Mar. 26-27, 2021 (deadline: Dec. 1, 2020)

International Conference and Graduate Workshops “Wittgenstein and Feminism: Ordinary Language Philosophy’s Contribution to Feminist Theory and Practice” Date: March 26th – 27th, 2021 Location: Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France Keynotes: Caterina Botti (University of Rome — La Spienza, Italy) Alice Crary (New School for Social Research, New York, USA) Chon Tejedor (University of Valencia, Spain) Over […]

What is entitlement?

Entitlement is the social materialization of owing To be entitled to something is not the same as to be owed that thing, but there to be a default presupposition that that thing is owed to us. Consequently, entitlement is not a mental state (or at least, not an individual’s mental state;but some of us know […]

The Universalist/Localist Dilemma

Everyone of us, non-Westerners, BIPOC, BAME, immigrants, disabled folks, women, etc. who has tried to develop a career in science, philosophy, art, literature or in academia in general knows well the loose-loose dilemma of having to decide whether to try to contribute to philosophy, science, art, whatever as it is already recognised in mainstream metropolitan […]