CFP: Affective Injustice, Special Issue of Passion (deadline: Sept. 30, 2025)

Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion Faces of Affective Injustice Special Issue Call for Papers Philosophers of emotion and affectivity have recently begun to explore the idea that there may be distinctive forms of injustice related to affectivity. This has involved coining the term “affective injustice” to investigate how […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Mich Ciurria

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fifth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am 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 […]

Feminist Philosophy of Climate Change Seminar Series (Online)

Organized by Hannah Hilligardt, Julie Jebeile, Sapna Kumar, Futura Venuto | University of Bern We invite you to our online seminar series exploring the intersections between feminist perspectives and climate change. Together, we will engage with key feminist themes – values, trust, epistemologies, injustice, uncertainty, diversity, activism, and emotions – and examine how these shape our understanding […]

Disability and Moral Responsibility in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies

Friends will know that my main areas of specialization are moral responsibility and critical disability theory. The following is a draft of my forthcoming entry, “Disability and Moral Responsibility,” for the Philosophy and Theory of Disability area of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. This pathbreaking project is being curated by Shelley Tremain for the OUP’s Digital Reference Publications. […]

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 […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, August 20, 2025

“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 “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.”  — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]

CFP: Gender, Sexuality, Feminisms and Women’s Studies in the History of Philosophy (deadline: Oct 31, 2025)

Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy invites submissions for its thirty-eighth issue, which will explore how questions of gender and sexuality (and, more broadly, Women’s Studies and Feminisms) intersect with the History of Philosophy. We welcome original research articles that engage with any philosophical and literary period or tradition, as long as they advance our understanding […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fourth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am 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 […]

How Do the PPN and DERPs Define Public Philosophy?

I felt both compelled and reluctant to email my friend Tracy Isaacs to express my dismay that she is on the program for the upcoming October conference of the Public Philosophy Network (PPN). The conference will take place in the epicenter of downtown Hamilton at a satellite campus of McMaster University that is located in […]