Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain, and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and eleventh 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 […]
From Philosophy of m/Madness to m/Mad Philosophy, Oxford, Sept. 25-26, 2024
EVENT DESCRIPTION The conference will explore what it means to think about m/Madness philosophically. The title reflects our interest in ‘madness’ as both a speculative (lower case ‘m’) and a practical (upper case ‘M’) term. Furthermore, it reflects our interest in the different ways in which m/Madness might be approached – either as an object […]
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 […]
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