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, […]
Palestinian Liberation is Disability Justice; Disability Justice is Universal Justice
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 […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On Agency, Autonomy, and MAiD
This week’s quote of the week (though it’s only Thursday) returns us to earlier discussions of MAiD (on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and here) in which I point out that proponents of this mechanism of eugenics generally hold dated understandings about contemporary forms of power (its character, how it coalesces, how it operates, etc.), assuming facile liberal […]
More on the Referee Crisis: Gatekeeping, Tone Policing, and Linguistic Discrimination
This is part of a 3-part series on the referee crisis in philosophy. You can find the first two posts here and here. Refereeing in the Neoliberal Age In my last two posts, I argued that the referee crisis is related to neoliberalism, a system of exploitation and oppression that confiscates wealth from workers and the poor […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Elena Ruíz on Implicit Bias
The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) concerns “implicit bias.” You may recall that, for a number of years, the concept of implicit bias dominated discussions at the Feminist Philosophers blog and other contexts elsewhere in philosophy. In these discussions, the concept of implicit bias served as a versatile causal […]
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