Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the ninth-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers about a range […]
CFP: Racism, Nationalism, and Xenophobia, Online, May 23-24, 2024 (deadline: May 5, 2024)
It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Alex Byrne on Gender and Disability
The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) extends my examination, in previous “quote of the week” posts, of the distinctly tendentious ways in which philosophers deploy ableist language to signify allegedly natural defect with respect to a purportedly universal intelligence and the material and institutional effects of these discursive practices. […]
CFP: Women in Indian Thought: Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary (deadline: May 31, 2024)
Three of us (Muzaffar Ali, Savitribai phule Pune University: Richa Shukla, IIT Bhubaneswar; Mansi Rathour, OP Jindal Global University) will be co-editing a volume, Women in Indian Thought: Ancient, Modern and Contemporary. The main idea behind co-editing this volume is to discuss and bring to the fore previously neglected voices of Indian women thinkers and philosophers. We invite […]
Tracy Isaacs: Meat-Eating as Ideology and “Meat-Eaters’ Fragility,” Online, Apr. 15, 2024, 15:15 CET/ 9:15 EST
The Collective Ethics Seminar: Online Presentation – 15 April 2024 – 15.15 – 16.45 CET / 09.15 – 10.45 EST Tracy Isaacs (Western University) – Meat-Eating as Ideology and “Meat-Eaters’ Fragility“ Abstract: Two major lines of reasoning yield the result that we should give up animal products. The first draws attention to the vast animal suffering […]
Why Should Philosophers with an Interest in Social Justice Care about Veganism? An Introductory Post to a Series on Veganism (Guest post)
Why Should Philosophers with an Interest in Social Justice Care about Veganism? An Introductory Post to a Series on Veganism by Tracy Isaacs As a feminist philosopher who works primarily on theories of collective action, collective responsibility, and collective obligation, I have spent a great deal of my career thinking about structural injustice and the […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Joe Stramondo on Trans Athletes and Id*ots
The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) aims to further expose ableist language and its political histories, as well as underscore the contested status that the notion of intelligence should hold for philosophers. Indeed, an anti-ableist conceptualization of disability—viz. philosophy of disability—should assume that neither the notion of intelligence nor […]
Dialogues on Disability, Ninth-Anniversary Installment, on Wednesday, April 17, at 8 a.m. ET
I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “The Dialogues on Disability platform … has been very helpful to me, especially at times where I did not feel I belong in the world of […]
CEASEFIRE NOW!
Image: 4 squares of lines, one inside the other, at the centre of the squares are the words “Cease” and “Fire,” the former above the latter
From Philosophy of m/Madness to m/Mad Philosophy, Oxford, Sept. 25-26, 2024
EVENT DESCRIPTION The conference will explore what it means to think about m/Madness philosophically. The title reflects our interest in ‘madness’ as both a speculative (lower case ‘m’) and a practical (upper case ‘M’) term. Furthermore, it reflects our interest in the different ways in which m/Madness might be approached – either as an object […]
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