This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]
Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), Online, December 11-13, 2024: Final Program and Registration Information
I’m very happy to announce that the final program and registration information are available for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), which I am organizing with Jonathan Wolff and with the support of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 is free, will take place online, and […]
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, […]
Responsibility and the Exclusion of Neurodivergent People, Other-than-human Animals, and Youths from the “Moral Community”
The following is my presentation for the 41st meeting of the International Social Philosophy Conference. I will be contributing to a panel on blame, equity, and moral community, focusing on the work of P. F. Strawson. Strawson is famous for arguing that moral responsibility is a matter of being able to participate in a “moral community” […]
CFP: FOUCAULT’S CONCEPT OF EXPERIENCE (deadline: Dec. 20, 2024)
CALL FOR PAPERS: FOUCAULT’S CONCEPT OF EXPERIENCE Special issue of PHILOSOPHY TODAY. An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy Special issue editorsVilde Lid Aavitsland (University of Louisville)Leonhard Riep (Goethe University Frankfurt) Experience is a key concept in Foucault’s work, yet its centrality has long been overlooked. In many of his published works, such as The Order of […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Judith Butler on Gender and Philosophy
The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) ushers in the publication of Judith Butler’s first book on gender in a decade: Who’s Afraid of Gender? Readers and listeners of my work on the apparatus of disability recognize how formative Butler’s claims about the performativity of gender and nonjuridical forms of […]
More on the Referee Crisis: Gatekeeping, Tone Policing, and Linguistic Discrimination
This is part of a 3-part series on the referee crisis in philosophy. You can find the first two posts here and here. Refereeing in the Neoliberal Age In my last two posts, I argued that the referee crisis is related to neoliberalism, a system of exploitation and oppression that confiscates wealth from workers and the poor […]
More on the Referee Crisis, Neoliberalism, & Sad Beige Philosophy (SBP)
This is part of a 3-part series. You can find the first and third posts here and here. In my last post, I wrote about the referee crisis and its relationship to neoliberalism. In short, there’s a backlog of papers in the publication pipeline because there aren’t enough referees to review them. Why aren’t there […]
The Referee Crisis, Neoliberalism, & Sad Beige Philosophy
This is part of a 3-part series. You can find the second and third posts here and here. This post is dedicated to the generous philosofriends who refereed papers for me. Last month, I finished editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on feminist perspectives on moral responsibility, which is (miraculously) scheduled to be published in […]
CFP: Compositing Man: Worldly-ecologies & Life/Death Affirming Perspectives (deadline: Mar. 15, 2024)
Compositing Man: Worldly-ecologies & Life/Death Affirming PerspectivesGuest Editors: Xalli Zúñiga & Stephanie Rivera BerruzphiloSOPHIA: Journal of Transcontinental Philosophy Feminism The colonial dynamics by which global capitalism asserts its dominance, establishing itself as the Earth’s prevailing economic system, give rise to metabolic rifts that tamper with the relations that make life possible. Through colonization, global capitalism […]
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