“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 […]
Letter to Boycott Israeli Literary Institutions with Link to Add Your Name
From the Palestinian Festival of Literature: October 28, 2024 | More than 1,000 authors, including winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award have launched a mass boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This is the largest cultural boycott against Israeli institutions in history. […]
Melvin Lee Rogers on Aaron Bushnell and the Politics of Evasion
[This post has been reprinted from Facebook with permission from Melvin Lee Rogers] By Melvin Lee Rogers Sigh. It has become customary to attribute a multitude of tragic occurrences in the United States to mental health issues. It seems inconceivable to a great many of us that the killing of Palestinians so distant and unrelated […]
More on Opposition to Bill C-7 (Medically-Assisted Suicide) and the Role of Philosophers
Last week, once again in the context of discussion about MAiD, I returned to the subject of how bioethics and bioethicists continue to shape philosophy departments in Canada and Canadian public policy with respect to the lives of disabled people and the limiting effects that this institutional formation has on the range of views that […]
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