On the night of 2–3 December 1984, a leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal released over forty tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas, exposing more than half a million people to one of the deadliest industrial disasters in recorded history. More than 30,000 have been lost, and over […]
CFP: 2024 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy, Nov. 21-22, 2024 (deadline: Jul. 24, 2024)
2024 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy Dates: November 21-22 (no fee, participation is free) Theme: Rivers and mountains in environmental philosophies in Asia Rivers are flowing, ever-changing and becoming. Mountains tend to be represented as more static aspects of local historical, cultural and natural landscapes. Rivers and mountains are at the heart of many […]
CFP: Special Issue of Dialogos on Environmental Philosophy (deadline: May 15, 2023/15 de mayo de 2023)
Diálogos: the Journal of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedrasis excited to announce a call for papers for a special issue on the topic of Environmental Philosophy to appear in the Winter of 2023. We invite paper submissions on any topic in environmental philosophy broadly construed. Possible topics include sustainability, the […]
Lecture Series: Introduction to Indigenous Philosophy of North America, Online, Apr. 13-Jun.7, 2023
How can one become aware of the presuppositions of one’s own thinking without questioning familiar knowledge structures through other perspectives? In this lecture series, we want to break down the narrow meshes of Western thinking together and introduce the basic philosophical principles of the indigenous peoples of North America. From different perspectives, we will present, among […]
CFP: Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to the Indigenous Philosophy of Turtle Island (deadline: May 15, 2022)
Call for Papers: Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to the Indigenous Philosophy of Turtle Island. Timeline: Book chapters due May 15, 2022. This book is under contract with Broadview Press. Original publication was planned for 2022, but has now been pushed to 2023. Complications due to the global Covid 19 pandemic have made […]
Climate Change: An Unprecedentedly Old Catastrophe (Guest Post)
In recognition of National Indigenous Peoples Day, I have reposted an essay that Kyle Whyte contributed to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on January 16, 2019. The article is a slightly adapted version of an article published online in Grafting Issue 1 (June 2018) by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and Blackwood Gallery,* Toronto, Ontario. […]
CFP: Philosophy and the Climate Crisis, Online, Jun. 11-12, 2021 (deadline: Oct. 31, 2020)
Climate change presents a major challenge for our time. It is expected to greatly increase global temperatures, “natural” disasters, political instability, war, disease, drought, and famine in this century. Its impacts are far-reaching and distributed unequally. In this conference, we aim to make progress toward addressing climate change, both by addressing the philosophical challenges it […]
What Should We Do?
After I returned from the Disabling Normativites conference in South Africa in October, I began to seriously question whether I should go to the conference and workshop to which I have been invited this Spring. With the growing urgency of the international discussion around climate change and mounting evidence for it, I feel as if […]
Hurricane prep, again
Hurricane preparation in Florida is an annual affair, at least. A lot of people in my area do not have enough money or space to prepare adequately for storms in advance. And, of course, when it comes to purchasing items once the news hits that a hurricane or major storm is headed our way, essential […]
CFP: International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Pittsburgh, Nov. 2-4, 2019
Following the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh Marriott, Pittsburgh, PA 2019 Keynote Speaker ELI CLARE Author of Brilliant Imperfection: Body-Mind Restoration and Ecosystem Restoration IAEP offers a forum for the philosophical discussion of our relation to the environment. We embrace a broad understanding of environmental philosophy including […]
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