“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 […]
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 […]
Vegan. Practically.
That’s the name of a relatively new blog produced, hosted, and authored by philosopher Tracy Isaacs. The blog is designed to work through some philosophical, political, social, and economic concerns and interests with respect to veganism, its justifications, and its requirements, as well as offer advice about how to accomplish them, including cooking guidance and […]
Presentation: Ableism, Animals, and Apparatuses, Online, Aug. 31, 2021
Ableism, Animals, and Apparatuses by Shelley Lynn Tremain, Ph.D. Presented at Spécisme et Autres Discriminations / Speciesism and Other Discriminations, Online, Aug. 30-31, 2021 To increase the accessibility of my presentation, I have now posted it to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, the philosophy blog that I mentioned yesterday. The link that I have now put in the chat […]
Spécisme et Autres Discriminations / Speciesism and Other Discriminations, Online, Aug. 30-31, 2021
On August 31, I will make a presentation in this two-day free online conference, postponed from last year due to the pandemic, which is organized by Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) and Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA). My presentation, which is entitled “Ableism, Animals, and Apparatuses,” will be part of […]
CFP: Wild Animal Ethics, St. Andrews, Sept. 24-25, 2020 (deadline: May 31, 2020)
The Senate Room, University of St. Andrews Organisers: Ben Sachs, Mara van der Lugt Confirmed Speakers Alasdair Cochrane (University of Sheffield) Julia Driver (University of Texas-Austin/University of St. Andrews) Molly Gardner (Bowling Green State University) Oscar Horta (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) Josh Milburn (University of Sheffield) Mara van der Lugt (University of St. Andrews) […]
CFP: Animalia, University of Alberta, May 8-9, 2020 (deadline: Jan. 5, 2020)
University of Alberta Philosophy Graduate and Postgraduate Conference May 8-9, 2020 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada We invite graduate students and postgraduates to submit papers to this year’s philosophy graduate and postgraduate conference taking place on May 8-9, 2020 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. This year we will analyze, discuss and criticize the relationships, similarities […]
CFP: Animalhouse: Animals and Their Environs, New School for Social Research, Apr. 23-24, 2020 (deadline: Dec. 31, 2019)
Keynote Speakers: Cary Wolfe (Rice) and Lori Gruen (Wesleyan) This conference seeks to explore the relationship between animals and their environs, as well as the philosophical traditions that speak to these complex notions. We invite participants to question if and how philosophy’s treatment of animals and their environs can help us make sense of our […]
CFP: NYU Animal Studies Award and Workshop on Ending Factory Farming (deadline: Sept. 1, 2019)
NYU Animal Studies is thrilled to announce that we are now accepting submissions for a new award and workshop on ending factory farming. We invite graduate students and early career faculty (i.e., faculty within 5 years of graduation) in any field to submit new or recent (i.e., unpublished or published within one year of submission) […]
CFP: Animal Ethics: Questioning the Orthodoxy (deadline: Sept. 30, 2019)
Guest editors: Herwig Grimm and Susana Monsó (Messerli Research Institute Vienna) It has become commonplace to refer to the success of animal ethics and the animal turn in philosophy. Since Singer and Regan published their ground-breaking works more than forty years ago, animal ethics has become an institutionalised field of research. This is mirrored in the appearance of entire journals, book series, text […]
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