Yoga Philosophy

From the Yoga Philosophy Institute: Yoga Philosophy (yogaphilosophy.com) was founded in 2019 by Dr. Shyam Ranganathan: professional philosopher, scholar of South Asia, translation expert, and translator of the Yoga Sūtra. Since then it has grown to offer the internet’s only Yoga and Philosophy education based on standards of professional philosophy courses and research. The mandate […]

Mental Illness Stigma and Devaluation of the Relational Self (Guest post)

Mental Illness Stigma and Devaluation of the Relational Self Abigail Gosselin Presentation to Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, December 12, 2024 Mental illness stigma involves making a negative judgment about someone who has mental illness and marking them as bad or inferior in some way. Mental illness stigma devalues and dehumanizes people in many […]

Prefiguration and the Abolition of Bioethics

Foucault’s genealogical method is the best approach with which to examine how the subfield of bioethics (1) contributes to the production of the problem of disability (and its naturalized foundation)–that is, contributes to the production of disability as a problem; and (2) is designed to hasten its elimination, that is, to resolve the problem that […]

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.

Neurodiversity Global Seminar Series 2025

The Center for Neurodiversity Studies (CNS) at O.P. Jindal Global University (India) and the Centre for Neurodiversity and Development at Durham University (UK) cordially invite you to the Neurodiversity Global Seminar Series 2025. This year-long online seminar series aims to facilitate a global interdisciplinary dialogue on neurodiversity by bringing together researchers and practitioners from various cultural contexts. […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain

This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]

CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)

This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]