Philosophy and Disability, Special Issue of Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies

1. A Cartography of Philosophy on/of Disability – Introduction by Chiara Montalti & Brunella Casalini (https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/558) 2. The Epistemological Significance of Blindness in Plato’s Republic. Bridging Ancient Philosophy and Disability Studies – by Lorenzo Giovannetti (https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/522) 3. Amending Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology Based on Disabled People’s Lived Experiences – by James B Wise (https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/486) 4. Understanding Models and Theories of Disability: A Historical Approach […]

Call for Participants: Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Workshop (Reading Foucault), Online, Nov. 4-7, 2025 (deadline: Sept. 1, 2025)

Decolonizing Knowledge and Power WorkshopFigure of Study: Michel Foucault https://forms.gle/3ApXDiWEZpiZHDGC7 We’re excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2025 Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Workshop. This is an informal initiative led by a group of scholars passionate about critical theory and its relevance in the world today. The workshop will take place online via Google […]

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5), Unapologetically Online, December 11-13, 2024: Final Program and Registration Information

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 is free, will unapologetically take place online, and is open to everyone! This conference is co-organized by Shelley Tremain and Jonathan Wolff, with the support of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5) comprises presentations by disabled philosophers whose cutting-edge research challenges […]

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5), Unapologetically Online, December 11-13, 2024: Final Program and Registration Information

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 is free, will unapologetically take place online, and is open to everyone! This conference is co-organized by Shelley Tremain and Jonathan Wolff, with the support of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5) comprises presentations by disabled philosophers whose cutting-edge research challenges […]

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), Online, December 11-13, 2024: Final Program and Registration Information

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 is free, will take place online, and is open to everyone! This conference is co-organized by Shelley Tremain and Jonathan Wolff, with the support of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5) comprises presentations by disabled philosophers whose cutting-edge research challenges members […]

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), Online, December 11-13, 2024: Final Program and Registration Information

I’m very happy to announce that the final program and registration information are available for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), which I am organizing with Jonathan Wolff and with the support of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 is free, will take place online, and […]

CFA: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known in Post-Apartheid South Africa, University of Johannesburg/Online, Jun. 20-22, 2024 (deadline: Mar. 31, 2024)

The African Centre for Epistemology of Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at the University of Johannesburg invites abstract submissions for: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known in Post-Apartheid South Africa ACEPS and Hector Pieterson Community Centre (Soweto) 20–22nd June 2024 Keynotes Jennifer Lackey  Antoinette Sithole Call for Abstracts We live in a world riddled with epistemic […]

Madpeople’s Coping Mechanisms, Oxford/Hybrid, Sept. 25-6, 2023

Organized by Paul Lodge and Sofia Jeppsson Madpeople/service users/psychiatric patients are a heterogenous group. Indeed, there’s evidence both of variety on a neurological level and of quite different phenomenologies even among people with the same diagnosis (e.g., bipolar disorder or schizophrenia) and/or the same “symptom label” (e.g., mania or thought insertion). It should therefore not […]

What Can We Know About Future Children? The Limits of Risk Assessment

On Friday, August 20 at 3pm EST, my wonderful co-coordinator of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Melinda Hall, will deliver a presentation, organized by the Center for Dignity in Health Care for People with Disabilities, entitled “What Can We Know About Future Children? The Practical and Moral Limits of Risk Assessment in Reproduction.” The event will take place […]

1st Online Meeting of the Asian Epistemology Network (Jul. 31, 2020)

We are happy to announce the program of the 1st Online Meeting of the Asian Epistemology Network, which will be held on Friday, July 31, 2020, 7-10pm (Shanghai time). Our speakers will be Rie Iizuka (Kansai University), Masaharu Mizumoto (Japan Institute of Science and Technology), Ru Ye (Wuhan University) and Adam Marushak (South China Normal University).  […]