From the Palestinian Festival of Literature: October 28, 2024 | More than 1,000 authors, including winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award have launched a mass boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This is the largest cultural boycott against Israeli institutions in history. […]
Philosophy and Theory of Disability in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Disability Studies-Updated
As I indicated in an earlier post, I am the Area Editor for Philosophy and Theory of Disability of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Disability Studies that Oxford University Press is developing for its Digital Reference Publications. I am very happy to report that the formation of the area is well underway and that many […]
Philosophy and Theory of Disability in The Oxford Encyclopedia in Disability Studies-An Update
As I indicated in an earlier post, I am the Area Editor for Philosophy and Theory of Disability of The Encyclopedia in Disability Studies that Oxford University Press is developing for its Digital Reference Publications. I am very happy to report that the formation of the area is well underway and that many of your […]
Symposium on Empire of Normality – A Response to Commentaries on Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman
Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2023, 204pp. (ISBN: 978-0-7453-4866-7)* ________________________________________________ I’m grateful to Shelley Tremain for organizing this symposium. I’m also grateful to Mich Ciurria, Jane Dryden, Johnathan Flowers, and Sofia Jeppsson – all scholars that I have long admired – for their careful engagements with Empire of Normality. I’m […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Kate Manne
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and eighth 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 […]
Discounts on The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability!
Alas, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability won’t be on display at any of the publishers’ booths at the divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA). Nevertheless, discounts on purchase of the book, which were available to registrants of Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4, have been reinstated to coincide with the symposium […]
Disabling Bioethics: An Abolitionist Genealogy
Two weeks from today, that is, January 14, I leave for the Eastern APA in New York. I will present in an APA symposium on my work in philosophy of disability on Tuesday, January 16, and then travel to Syracuse on Thursday, January 18, to present at the Central New York Humanities Corridor on Friday, […]
Check out The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability Now!
Contributors to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability are already receiving their copies of the book in time for the book launch at the upcoming Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 conference on December 14! If you pre-ordered a copy of this amazing book, you should receive it soon too! The book is now […]
The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability-Coming to You on December 14!
The excitement builds as December 14, 2023, the publication date for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, approaches! If you haven’t already done so, you can pre-order the book (in various formats) at a discount on its webpage, where you will also find the book’s Table of Contents and advance reviews of it. The […]
Publication: When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability
The (penultimate, i.e., uncopyedited) version of my article “When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability” is now on PhilPapers here: https://philpapers.org/rec/TREWMR The article will appear in Mich Ciurria’s special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on feminist approaches to moral responsibility theory. The abstract for the article appears below: In this article, I aim to demonstrate […]
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