Hsiang-Yun Chen and Sally Haslanger have just edited an special issue on Social Meaning and Reality for the EurAmerica Journal and it features an article by yours truly. This is how they summarize it on their introduction to the special issue: Just as there is a large variety of social categories that an individual can […]
Andrea J. Pitts Reviews My Book
Andrea Pitts has written a wonderful review of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability for the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Andrea’s review appears in a special issue of CJDS devoted to transinstitutionalism. The Table of Contents for the special issue is here: https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/issue/view/33 You can find Andrea Pitts’s review of my book here: https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/651/910
2nd CFP: What Is Gender and What Do We Want It To Be? Manchester, Sept. 9-11, 2020 (deadline: Tomorrow)
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory The subject of this workshop is metaphysics of gender. For the three days the participants of the workshop will concentrate on studying together what is gender, what are genders, and closely related phenomena. Politics invariably involves gender. Even when this is not apparent, just scratch the surface and there it is, […]
Feminist Philosophy of Disability, Women’s History Month, and IWD
March is Women’s History Month and March 8th is International Women’s Day (IWD). In recognition of these occasions, the University of Michigan Press has applied a discount to a number of its publications relevant to women and feminism, including to my book, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability. My book, the manuscript of which won […]
Some Notes on Dembroff on Hacking, Disability, and Kinds of People
This morning I quickly looked at Robin Dembroff’s “Real Talk on the Metaphysics of Gender,” which is forthcoming in a special issue of Philosophical Topics edited by Takaoka and Manne. In this post, I want to mention a few problems that I noticed on my first quick read of Dembroff’s article. I hope that if […]
CFA: Post-Truth: Perspectives, Strategies, Prospects, KU Leuven, Jan. 16-17, 2020 (deadline: Aug. 20, 2019)
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND POSTERS Post-Truth: Perspectives, Strategies, Prospects (An interdisciplinary conference at KU Leuven, Belgium) January 16-17, 2020 Keynote speakers: Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol) Maria Mäkelä (Tampere University) Jason Reifler (University of Exeter) Åsa Wikforss (Stockholm University) Following the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States, the Oxford English Dictionary […]
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