“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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
CFP: STRUCTURAL INJUSTICE IN PHILOSOPHY (deadline: Jul. 31, 2023)
Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) & Bloomsbury Academic Volume on Structural Injustice in Philosophy Editors: Milana Kostic (MAP), Maeve McKeown (University of Groningen), and Robin Zheng (University of Glasgow) Deadline for 500-word abstracts/pitches: 31 July 2023 We invite submissions on the use of structural injustice as a conceptual tool for explaining underrepresentation and related issues in […]
Registration for Ethics After the Pandemic, Hybrid, Sat. Apr. 15, 2023
I have copied below the poster for Ethics After the Pandemic, the symposium taking place this Saturday at Salisbury University from 9:00am to 3:30pm EST. Karen Stohr and I will give keynotes in the morning and three panels will be held in the afternoon. To join the symposium by Zoom, go here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/43rd-annual-salisbury-university-philosophy-symposium-tickets-553421337117 Description of […]
CFP: Ruptures, Resistance, Reclamation: Global Feminisms in a Digital Age (deadline: May 25, 2023)
Co-Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema, Jennifer Jill Fellows, Lisa Smith Scheduled for Publication in August 2024 Deadline for Abstracts: May 25, 2023 A recent LA Times story illustrated that ChatGPT, perceived as the latest technological threat to academia, was supported by an army of exploited workers, most of whom reside in the Global South. It’s a sharp […]
Philosophy of Disability at philoSOPHIA, Hybrid, Jun. 3
The annual philoSOPHIA conference takes place the first weekend of June, that is, June 1-4. On Saturday June 3, a two-part pre-publication book launch of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability will take place at the conference. 9:00am-10:20am: I, Kristin Rodier, Johnathan Flowers, and Amandine Catala will present. 1:30pm-2:50pm: Mich Ciurria, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, Melinda […]
Calling All Dialogues on Disability Interviewees!
“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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
Lecture Series: Introduction to Indigenous Philosophy of North America, Online, Apr. 13-Jun.7, 2023
How can one become aware of the presuppositions of one’s own thinking without questioning familiar knowledge structures through other perspectives? In this lecture series, we want to break down the narrow meshes of Western thinking together and introduce the basic philosophical principles of the indigenous peoples of North America. From different perspectives, we will present, among […]
Ableism in Philosophy According to ChatGPT
I have copied below the discussion I had with ChatGPT about ableism, philosophy, bioethics, and feminist philosophy. My requests for information are in bold. I found the ChatGPT responses instructive insofar as they seemed merely to rehearse conventional, (neo)liberal definitions of what disability is, what ableism is, what counts as ableist, what bioethics is and […]
CFP: In the Shadow of Eugenic Thinking: Legacies of Eugenics in the UK, Hybrid, May 3, 2023 (deadline: Apr. 14, 2023)
A one-day symposium jointly hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and the Centre for Memory Narrative and History, University of Brighton Wednesday 3rd May, 10am-5pm, Online and in-person This symposium will bring together activists, academics, practitioners, educators and artists to explore the legacy of eugenics in the UK. Although overt forms of eugenic thinking […]
A Philosophy of Disability Event
Yesterday afternoon, I made a presentation in an illuminating online event, “Troubling Access: Ableism and New Movements in Philosophy of Disability,” which was organized by Joshua St. Pierre, Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies at the University of Alberta, and Kristin Rodier, along with her collaborators of the J-Series (social justice series) at Athabasca […]
