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 […]
More on the Referee Crisis, Neoliberalism, & Sad Beige Philosophy (SBP)
This is part of a 3-part series. You can find the first and third posts here and here. In my last post, I wrote about the referee crisis and its relationship to neoliberalism. In short, there’s a backlog of papers in the publication pipeline because there aren’t enough referees to review them. Why aren’t there […]
Lecture by Johnathan Flowers: Gender as Affect: A Cross-Cultural Aesthetics of Gender, SOAS/Zoom, Mar. 22, 2024, 16:00 GMT
The Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies is very pleased to invite you to the 21st Lecture in the SOAS World Philosophies Lecture Series. The Lecture will be delivered by Johnathan Flowers, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Northridge Title: Gender as Affect: a Cross-Cultural Aesthetics of Gender Summary This talk will bring together Japanese Aesthetics and American […]
Advice for (Disabled) Canadian Philosophy Students about Graduate Study in Philosophy of Disability/Critical Disability Theory
I was so caught up in the events surrounding the publication of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability that I neglected to offer a report on Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 subsequent to the conference. The presentations were fantastic and the question periods that followed them were exceptionally lively. The book launch allowed […]
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 