The Critical Social Ontology Workshop is an interdisciplinary venue for radical thinking about the metaphysics of irreducibly social phenomena. Core members of CSOW are Ruth Groff (Coordinator), Sally Haslanger, Tony Lawson, Doug Porpora, Vanessa Wills and Charlotte Witt. We invite paper proposals for the 2023 meeting of the Workshop, to be held via Zoom due […]
Happy New Year! Is 2023 the Year for Non-linear Time?
Kinship Time I’ve been seeing a lot of progress reports on social media. In light of this, let me remind you that linear time is a social construct. You do not need to live up to a productivity schedule that follows a linear timeline. Indigenous philosopher Kyle Whyte of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation writes that […]
CFA: An Exploration of Human Nature: Perspectives From African Philosophy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Online, Oct. 12-14, 2021 (deadline: July 5, 2021)
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 4th Biennial African Philosophy World Conference (APWC), 2021 Department of Philosophy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria. (Virtual Conference) Conference Theme An Exploration of Human Nature: Perspectives from African Philosophy Date: Tuesday 12th–Thursday 14th October, 2021 Issues of human nature basically revolve around the reflections and intuitions of human beings about what constitute […]
Open Questions in Social Ontology
Hsiang-Yun Chen and Sally Haslanger have just edited an special issue on Social Meaning and Reality for the EurAmerica Journal and it features an article by yours truly. This is how they summarize it on their introduction to the special issue: Just as there is a large variety of social categories that an individual can […]
CFP: What Is Gender and What Do We Want It To Be? Manchester, Sept. 9-11, 2020 (deadline: May 15, 2020)
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory The subject of this workshop is metaphysics of gender. For the three days the participants of the workshop will concentrate on studying together what is gender, what are genders, and closely related phenomena. Politics invariably involves gender. Even when this is not apparent, just scratch the surface and there it is, […]
Philosophy of Disability: Present and Future, No. 3
This series is intended to flesh out some of the remarks that I made in a pivotal paragraph of my reply to commentators in the Pacific APA symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability. In the previous post in this series, I returned to the paragraph in order to consider the remark according to […]
Dialogues on Disability With Shelley Tremain
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the fourth-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m conducting with disabled philosophers and post here on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers about a range […]
Heading to the Pacific APA Next Month?
Maybe you are heading to the Pacific APA next month. You’ve considered checking out the symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability; but you haven’t read/listened to the book. So, you’re wondering if the session would be worth your while. Maybe you should go to another session instead. Maybe you should instead go outside […]
CFA: Annual Conference of SWIP-Ireland, Dublin City University, Apr. 26-28, 2019 (deadline: Mar. 8, 2019)
7th Annual Conference and General Meeting of SWIP-Ireland 26-28 April, 2019 Dublin City University, Ireland Conference Theme: Gender and Philosophy SWIP-Ireland invites abstracts for papers that engage with the topic of gender and philosophy, broadly construed, from all philosophical traditions and approaches. The confirmed keynote speakers are: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire) Christine Battersby (University of Warwick) […]
Draft Introduction to “Denaturalizing Impairment and Disability in Feminist Philosophy of Science”
Below I have copied the draft introduction of my contribution to the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science, edited by Sharon Crasnow and Kristen Intemann. Feminist philosophy of science emerged in large part as a critical response to the essentialist assumptions about sex and gender that have conditioned Euro-American thinking in general and […]
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