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). […]
CFP: Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and AI (deadline: Mar. 30, 2020)
Modern philosophers such as Rene Descartes, William Amo, and Patricia Churchland, have all sought to unravel the mind-body dilemma in many ways. What is immediately noticeable is the fact that the salient perspectives of modern African philosophers like Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye and Jonathan Chimakonam – are rarely engaged. Furthermore, the 21st century has seen the […]
CFP: The Sexual Politics of Freedom, University of Galway, May 22-23, 2020 (deadline: Feb. 21, 2020)
Keynote speakers: Prof Ratna Kapur (QMUL) and Prof Linda Martín Alcoff (CUNY) At stake in framing the theme of this conference in terms of ‘the sexual politics of freedom’ as opposed to ‘the politics of sexual freedom’ is to draw our attention to the ways in which the politics of freedom has always been implicated in sexual […]
CFP: Conceptualizing Difference Conference (Jun. 8–9, 2020) and PhD Summer School (Jun. 10-11, 2020), University of Aberdeen (deadline: Feb. 7, 2020)
The idea of ‘difference’ governs today’s political thinking. Struggles for equality and justice are generally concerned with recognizing and protecting differences, not least because varieties of difference, including gender, sexuality, race, religion and language are used to justify political oppression, discrimination and exclusion. Difference has become axiomatic to political debate and therefore requires further reflection […]
CFA: Dreams and Dreaming – African Perspectives III, Makerere University, Feb. 27-28, 2020 (deadline: Jan. 17, 2020)
The Department of Philosophy at the University of York (UK) in partnership with the Department of Philosophy and Development Studies at Makerere University (Uganda) are holding a two-day conference on African Perspectives on Dreams and Dreaming. We welcome researchers from all disciplines, including philosophy, religious studies, psychology, and mental health. (This is the third in a […]
Thinking Africa Imprint
UKZN Press has made PDFs of the first five volumes published under the Thinking Africa Imprint freely available. In order of publication, the five volumes are: 1. The Return of Makhanda: Exploring the Legend, Julia C. Wells (2012) “In a work of brilliant scholarship, combining both popular and academic history, Julia Wells has given us a […]
Disability is Social, Political, and Linked to Epistemic Injustice: An Academic Exploration and Personal Reflection (Guest Post)
Guest Post By David, Incarcerated at Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach, FL “[T]he risks associated with disability are widely understood to be merely or mostly biological, rather than, as I understand it, significantly social and political” (Hall 2016, 10). This quote lays the foundation for the argument I would like to raise about […]
CFP: Epistemological Issues in Neurodivergence and Atypical Cognition (deadline: Nov. 1, 2019)
In the “Welcome to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY,” we point out that the appearance of material on the blog may not indicate editorial endorsement from me and Melinda. The CFP that I have copied below holds promise for politically and epistemically radical arguments about neurodiversity, alternatives to the arguments that mainstream philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists […]
Undergraduate Diversity Initiative for the British Society of Aesthetics Conference, Oxford, Sept. 6-8, 2019 (deadline: Jul. 1, 2019)
In an effort to increase diversity in British aesthetics and philosophy of art, the British Society of Aesthetics (BSA) is launching a new initiative to encourage UK undergraduates from underrepresented groups to consider further study in the discipline. We will provide funding to a limited number of such students to attend the BSA Annual Conference, […]
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