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 […]
How Canadian Philosophy Plays a Vital Role in the Project of Eugenics: Or, Gender, Schafer, and Other Nondisabled White Male Bioethicists
I’m always disappointed when I see Canadian feminist philosophers contribute to and reproduce the significant role that philosophy in Canada and Canadian bioethicists in particular play in the legacy of eugenics in Canada and the exclusion of disabled philosophers and philosophy of disability that this legacy requires and sustains. Given the systemic and structural character […]
Palestinian Liberation is Disability Justice; Disability Justice is Universal Justice
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove [not only] from our land but from our minds as well – Frantz Fanon Genocide is Disablement To quote Alice Wong from the Disability Visibility Project, “Palestinian liberation is disability justice.” Palestinians are experiencing genocide and “genocide is a mass disabling event and a […]
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 […]
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