Our amazing BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger, disabled philosopher Mich Ciurria, has co-edited an inter/transdisciplinary collection entitled Liberation at the End of Usefulness: On the Intersections of Disability, Animality, and Earth with Amanda Williams and Nathan Poirier. The book is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan and is due out at the end of 2026. The book now has […]
Final Update on “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
In just over two months, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” the special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly that I have guest-edited to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926, will be published! I’m thrilled with the contents of the issue and eager to share them with you. To […]
(My Presentation to) Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6
The sixth edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series that took place this week was outstanding, exceeding the expectations of the organizing team in every aspect. The presentations were amazing, fascinating, provocative, engaging, creative, insightful, mischievous, daring, insurgent. The Q and As were lively, respectful, committed, and concerned. The Chat conversations were […]
CFP: Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative Symposium, Online, May 30, 2025 (deadline: Mar. 21, 2025)
The Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative (3PI) will host its second symposium on May 30, 2025. This virtual symposium will feature research at the intersection of policing and philosophy, with a particular interest in work that speaks to policy debates. All philosophical work on policing is welcome. Potential topics include but are not limited to […]
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 […]
Toward an Abolitionist Genealogy of Bioethics
In recent years, philosophers have increasingly engaged with each other in passionate discussions about academic freedom in the discipline of philosophy and academia more widely, as well as participated in heated debates with members of the broader public about freedom of speech in society generally. The topics around which the most impassioned discussions and debates […]
CFP: Special Issue of Essays in Philosophy: Care Ethics Otherwise (deadline: Aug. 1, 2022)
In this special issue, we aim to include essays focused on previously underexplored approaches to examining and practicing care ethics. We are seeking work that actively decenters understandings of care rooted in white, bourgeois, heteronormative domestic/kinship norms and practices. We understand this special issue as an exercise in doing care ethics otherwise. By this we mean […]
CFP: Criminal Justice and Philosophy (deadline: Sept. 30, 2020)
The new book series “Criminal Justice and Philosophy” edited by Blake Wilson aims to canvas innovative, critical, and global/international debates addressing the intersection of criminal justice and philosophy (social, political, ethical, and legal). ‘Criminal Justice’ is broadly understood to include formal institutional responses to crime and misconduct, as well as informal and non-institutional responses which […]
Dispatches From the Protests: Black Rebellion and Abolitionism (online, Mon. Jun. 29)
Dispatches From the Protests: Black Rebellion and Abolitionism. An online conference, Monday, June 29th, 12:00-1:00pm ET With Cinzia Arruzza, Miriam Ticktin and Justin Charles The last three weeks have changed the face of the country: thousands of people have taken to the streets in a Black and Brown led rebellion to protest police brutality and […]
#COVID19DecarcerateSyllabus
A Political Education Resource Curated by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) CCWP is a grassroots social justice organization, with members inside and outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). We see the struggle for racial and gender justice as central […]