Frieder Vogelmann’s recent article** “Political Epistemology without Apologies” begins in this way: The recent interest in political epistemology seems easy to explain. Its rise to prominence is routinely traced to two events in 2016: the Brexit referendum in the UK and the election of Donald J. Trump as 45th president of the USA (e.g. Hannon & […]
Ten Questions about Disabled People Stemming from This Week’s U.S. Election
Many of my social media friends, most of whom are philosophers or other academics, are postulating the reasons why Trump won this week’s election in the United States. Many of them are also predicting what will unfold in the U.S. henceforth; (almost) invariably these predictions forecast catastrophe, increasing social injustice, hardening of sensibilities to the […]
CFP: League of African Women Philosophers (LAWP) First Anniversary Conference, Online, Jan. 24-25, 2025 (deadline: Nov. 10, 2024)
The League of African Women Philosophers is pleased to announce its first anniversary conference, which is focused on celebrating African women in philosophy. Although philosophy has been portrayed as an essentially masculine endeavor, women’s voices are becoming prominent in philosophical traditions around the world. In African history, women have played a central role in the […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, November 20, at 8 a.m. ET
“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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Wednesday): Cressida Heyes on Identity Politics and Disability
This week’s contribution to the quote-of-the-week thread (though it’s only Wednesday) considers the extent to which nondisabled philosophers and nondisabled feminist philosophers in particular will give up their position of dominance with respect to what gets said about disability in philosophy, who gets to say it, and how it gets said. It has been almost […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Preliminary Program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, Online, December 11-13, 2024
I have copied below the preliminary program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 which takes place online December 11-13, 2024, 13:00-18:00 GMT/UK Time (=ET+5). Information about registration for this event will appear here soon. Check back often! (All times in GMT/UK Time=ET +5) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 13:00-13:05 INTRODUCTIONS Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, […]
30% Off The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability During This Back-To-School Sale!
Now is your chance to pick up copies of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, the cutting-edge resource for your teaching and research, at an additional discount. Assign the book to your students! Until October 6, 11:59pm ET, Bloomsbury Publishers is offering a 30% discount on its books in its back-to-school sale, including The […]
Appeals to Merit and Luck as Forms of Structural Gaslighting
Two longstanding concerns of analytic liberal political philosophy and ethics are how to justify egalitarianism and how a theory of egalitarianism should deal with so-called human variation. These concerns have given rise to questions about what people are owed and what they deserve. Are social inequalities between individuals justified if they occur due to differences […]
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