Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the eighty-ninth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am 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 […]
Kant and Racial Discrimination, Ruhr- University Bochum, Feb. 24-25, 2022
Kant’s discriminatory statements and implications in some of his works, such as on physical geography, anthropology, and especially in his continuous theory of race, might shock those who are rather acquainted with or inspired by his prominent egalitarian universalism in moral and, in part, legal philosophy. Kant’s defense of racial hierarchy, his condoning of race-based […]
Why Feminist Philosophy of Science? Thurs. Mar. 11, at 5 pm (CET) / 11 am (EST) / 8 am (PST)
Sharon Crasnow and Kristen Intemann, the editors of The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science, to which I had the pleasure to contribute, will be this week’s speakers at the colloquium of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Konrad-Lorenz-Institut für Evolutions- und Kognitionsforschung). This Zoom colloquium will revolve around questions that […]
The Question of Inclusion in Philosophy: Alcoff, Mills, and Tremain Join LaVine and Lewis
In the previous post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, I mentioned a podcast that Linda Alcoff, Charles Mills, and I would be recording for the Larger, Freer, More Loving series hosted by Matthew J LaVine and Dwight Lewis. The motivation to record the discussion was the announcement about the SSHRC project “Extending New Narratives in the History […]
Ableism and Racism in Canadian Philosophy
I hope that by now many of you have read or listened to the comment thread of the June 25th post at Daily Nous about the large grant that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded to the “Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy” project. In case you didn’t, here […]
CFA: Women in the History of Philosophy, Durham, Apr. 23-15, 2020 (deadline: Nov. 30, 2019)
British Society for the History of Philosophy, Annual Conference 2020 Women in the History of Philosophy 23 – 25 April 2020, University of Durham Keynote Speakers Peter Adamson (LMU/KCL) Sophia Connell (Birkbeck) Marilyn Fischer (Dayton) Call for Papers Proposals for individual papers and for papers organized in themed symposia are invited on women in philosophy […]
Review of Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy
The book review of Edwin Etieyibo’s Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy posted below originally appeared at Social Epistemology and Review and Reply Collective. The author of the review is Anke Graness. The full citation for the review is: Graness, Anke. “African Philosophy and History.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 10 (2018): […]
CFP: Asian Philosophical Texts: Exploring Hidden Sources (deadline: July 31, 2019)
The purpose of the Asian Philosophical Texts series is to publish critical translations of primary sources in Asian philosophical traditions, along with edited volumes or monographs dealing with the philosophical issues of translating them into western languages. By making primary sources of Asian philosophies available to the wider audience in western academia and beyond, this […]
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