Daily Nous has reported that a new editorial team has resurrected the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs (PPA), owned by Wiley. This news comes barely a month after I published a call to action on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY urging philosophers to boycott Wiley and other predatory publishers. Here, I will review some of Wiley’s offenses against PPA’s former editorial board, and […]
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 […]
Boycott Predatory Journals Now!
The term “predatory” was originally used to describe journals that charge authors high publication fees without providing genuine peer review or editorial services. Beal’s list of “potential predatory journals and publishers” includes titles like British Open Research Publications, which charges $300 to publish research from authors in high-income countries. These journals are also thought to have low editorial standards, […]
CFP: Special Issue of Informal Logic on the Work of Catherine E. Hundleby (new deadline: Dec. 15, 2024)
New Deadline: December 15, 2024 Guest editors: Moira Howes, Trent University (mhowes@trentu.ca) and Audrey Yap, University of Victoria (ayap@uvic.ca) Contributions are invited that will address themes and arguments arising from the work of Catherine Hundleby such as argumentation and gender, adversarial argument, standpoint epistemology and argumentation, argument repair, critical thinking education and research, and emotion and […]
Playful Resistance to the Dis/ability Binary
Below is the script for my presentation at the Trans/Feminist Philosophy: Pasts, Presents, Futures conference, scheduled to take place at the University of Guelph on August 14th. Summary We tend to think of ability and disability as two sides of a binary divide. People on one side of the divide are entitled to disability-specific resources while […]
Responsibility and the Exclusion of Neurodivergent People, Other-than-human Animals, and Youths from the “Moral Community”
The following is my presentation for the 41st meeting of the International Social Philosophy Conference. I will be contributing to a panel on blame, equity, and moral community, focusing on the work of P. F. Strawson. Strawson is famous for arguing that moral responsibility is a matter of being able to participate in a “moral community” […]
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 […]
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, […]
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