It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of […]
Children as an Oppressed Class
I am grateful for comments from Adam Kobler (a law professor) and Martine Shelley-Piccinini (an 11-year-old). Skip to the bottom for a summary of the main points, written for a general audience. In this post, I’m going to argue that children are an oppressed class, in a position similar to 20th Century housewives, working mothers, and […]
CFP: Complexity, Social Cognition, and Social Explanation, Cincinnati, Feb. 22-23, 2020 (deadline: Jan. 22, 2020)
We are glad to announce the upcoming Workshop on Complexity, Social Cognition, and Social Explanation, which will take place at the University of Cincinnati, February 22nd and 23rd, 2020. We will have the pleasure to have Sally Haslanger(MIT), Gaile Pohlhaus(Miami U), and Deborah Tollefsen(U of Memphis) as our invited speakers. The workshop will include talks […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Tommy Curry
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the fifty-first installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m 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 discussion with disabled philosophers about […]
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