This online seminar series explores the intersections of feminist perspectives and climate change, engaging with themes such as values, trust, epistemologies, injustice, uncertainty, diversity, activism, and emotions. Each session features a short talk followed by an open discussion with invited speakers.You can visit each event page for a session summary and video recording. SEMINAR SPRING […]
On Lakatosian philosophy of science, based on a recent talk by Atocha Aliseda
Science is such a problematic philosophical phenomenon because of its double nature: on the one hand, it has had some astonishing epistemological successes, i.e., it has given us some wonderful objective knowledge about the world, both natural and non-natural; but on the other, it is a heterogeneous social practice and as such it reflects the […]
Obituary for Evelyn Fox Keller (1936-2023)
[Renowned feminist philosopher and historian of science, Evelyn Fox Keller, died on Friday, September 22, 2023. The obituary below was published on the MIT News site on September 25, 2023. You can find the original obituary here.] Description of photo below: Evelyn Fox Keller smiles widely for the camera. She is wearing oval wire glasses, […]
Edouard Machery and the non-coming scientific revolution
This morning I had the chance to hear an interview with philosopher of science Edouard Machery at Stanford University‘s new Psychology podcast on his 2020 paper “What Is a Replication?” and his forthcoming book. There, Machery talked, among other topics, on how science has become so reticent to changes, despite overwhelming evidence that change is […]
Welcome Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia!
I am very excited to officially announce that BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY now has an additional contributing author, Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia (he/him/his)! Axel has in the past contributed guest posts to both BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and Discrimination and Disadvantage (for example, here) and is an avid participant in and contributor to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Facebook. Axel’s inaugural post […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Alison Reiheld
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the fifty-fourth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m 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 discussion with disabled philosophers about […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, September 18th, at 8 a.m. EST
“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “The Dialogues on Disability platform … has been very helpful to me, especially at times where I did not feel I belong in the world of […]
CFP: Science, Politics, and Philosophy, University of Cork, Dec. 6-7, 2019 (deadline: Oct. 1, 2019)
Irish Philosophical Society Annual Conference December 6-7, 2019 University College Cork, Cork (Ireland) DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: October 1, 2019 CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION The Irish Philosophical Society’s Annual Conference invites abstracts on any paper related to philosophy of science, political philosophy, and the intersection between them. Part of the conference is dedicated to the subject of science […]
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