La Filosofía es interdisciplinaria

Desafortunadamente, ahora veo menos interdisciplina en mi quehacer de investigación diario del que veía hace veinte años, digamos. En esa época, todas las discusiones estaban (o, por lo menos, se sabía que debían estar) actualizada a los desarrollos científicos relevantes a su área. Esto ha desaparecido.

Becoming Black

In the first pages of his autobiography, Darcus Beese, former president of Island Records, writes about growing up Black in mid Twentieth Century London. “Generally, it was a non-issue – he writes –; until it became an issue.” (p. 28) “Sometimes I’d be out on the street with a group of mates and a white […]

Letter to Boycott Israeli Literary Institutions with Link to Add Your Name

From the Palestinian Festival of Literature: October 28, 2024 | More than 1,000 authors, including winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award have launched a mass boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This is the largest cultural boycott against Israeli institutions in history. […]

CFA: Neurodiversity, Autism, ASD, and Other Categories in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Tilburg/Online, Dec. 16, 2024 (deadline: Oct. 23, 2024)

We invite submissions of abstracts (~250-500 words) on any of the following or broadly related topics: What should we mean by “neurodiversity”? What is the relationship between the categories “neurodiversity,” “autism” and “ASD”? Why are these categories useful? What are their limitations? What do we know about the mechanisms, developmental trajectory, phenomenology, and social attitudes […]

Palestinian Liberation is Disability Justice; Disability Justice is Universal Justice (by Mich Ciurria; reposted from May 3, 2024)  

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove [not only] from our land but from our minds as well – Frantz Fanon Genocide is Disablement To quote Alice Wong from the Disability Visibility Project, “Palestinian liberation is disability justice.”  Palestinians are experiencing genocide and “genocide is a mass disabling event and a […]

CFP: Thinking the Global with Feminist Pragmatism, Special Issue of Pragmatism Today (deadline: Feb. 15, 2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS Summer Issue 2025 Special Issue: Thinking the Global with Feminist Pragmatism In her path-breaking work, Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric (1996), Charlene Haddock Seigfried provides concrete directions for articulating a distinctively feminist pragmatism. Generations of scholars have now been engaged in reviving the work of women philosophers to reimagine the pragmatist canon, expanding […]

Youth Suffrage is Disability Justice! A Coalitional Proposal. 

Introduction A youth rights coalition in which I am involved, called the Children’s Voting Colloquium, recently published a petition urging adults to transfer their votes to children in support of youth suffrage. (The reasons behind the pledge are explained in this article in the Guardian). The petition argues that there should be no minimum voting age because ‘political competency,’ which youths […]