The essay below appeared today on Planet of the Blind here and has been reprinted on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY with permission. _____________________________________________________________________ Galileo, Blind, Saw Stars With His Body by Stephen Kuusisto* Yes people go blind late in life and they go on living, seeing in different ways. Sight is an immoderate thing which makes its […]
Disability, Discourse, Demographics at the Pacific APA
I have copied below the response I gave yesterday in the symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability. ___________________________________________________________________ To increase the accessibility of this symposium and provide a context in which it can be situated, I’d like to begin my remarks by explaining why I wrote the book, offering a rationale for its […]
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 […]
Mind, Attention, & World: Themes in Indian & Buddhist Philosophical Theory, NYU, Apr. 25-26, 2019
April 25-26, 2019 19 Washington Square North New York, NY 10011 Location: Events Space (2nd Floor) Convenor: Jonardon Ganeri, NYU (646) 316-7297 April 25, 2019|DAY 1 8:45 am – 9:00 am Coffee & Welcome (Jonardon Ganeri NYU) 9:00 am – 10:45 am Panel 1. Attending to Oneself Chair: Nic Bommarito (Buffalo) 9:00 am – 9:50 […]
