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 […]
CFA: African Political and Economic Philosophy (deadline: Aug. 31, 2020)
African Political and Economic Philosophy Call for Papers (Book Chapters) Abstracts (250 Words maximum) Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2020 Editors Ephraim-Stephen Essien, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria Kenneth Amaeshi, University of Edinburgh, UK Raymond Osei, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana Paul Nnodim, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA Joseph Agbakoba, University of Nigeria, […]
CFP: Stanford Center for Ethics in Society, Junior Scholars Workshop, Jun. 7-9, 2020 (deadline: Jan. 13, 2020)
The Center for Ethics in Society will host the third annual Junior Scholars Workshop at Stanford University on June 7-9, 2020. The workshop will feature the work of early career scholars in political philosophy, political theory, and moral philosophy and is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and untenured junior faculty. This workshop seeks to […]
CFP: Home: Sanctuary, Shelter, and Justice (deadline: Dec. 31, 2019)
Social Philosophy Today (SPT), a peer-reviewed forum for the philosophical discussion of contemporary social issues, is pleased to invite submissions for Volume 36 on the theme, Home: Sanctuary, Shelter, and Justice. We also welcome short “replies” to articles in the SPT archives. The deadline for submissions for volume 36 (2020) is December 31, 2019. The theme of Volume 36 […]
CFP: 16th Annual California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race (CRPR), Marquette University, Oct. 18-19, 2019 (deadline: May 15, 2019)
The California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race announces a call forpapers for its 16th annual roundtable. This roundtable bringstogether philosophers of race in continental and analytic traditions,and those working in related disciplines in a small and congenialsetting to share their work and develop this field further.Philosophical papers are invited on any issue regarding race,ethnicity, or […]
CFP: Activism and Philosophy (deadline: Sept. 1, 2019)
Essays in PhilosophyVolume 21, Number 1Issue Date: January 2020Submission Deadline: September 1, 2019Editor: Ramona Ilea (Pacific University) Essays in Philosophy is an open-access journal. For more information on the Board of Advisers, see https://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/editorialboard.html. The journal is currently accepting submissions for a special issue called “Activism and Philosophy.” For this issue, we seek articles that […]
Heading to the Pacific APA Next Month?
Maybe you are heading to the Pacific APA next month. You’ve considered checking out the symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability; but you haven’t read/listened to the book. So, you’re wondering if the session would be worth your while. Maybe you should go to another session instead. Maybe you should instead go outside […]
Feminist Philosophy of Disability: A Genealogical Intervention
Today is International Women’s Day; so, I’m happy to tell you that my article “Feminist Philosophy of Disability: A Genealogical Intervention” has now been published in The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 132-158. The article draws upon my book Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability and also identifies feminist philosophy of […]
Alcoff on Rape and Consistency: A Survivor Speaks
In October of last year, I wrote a post at Discrimination and Disadvantage about how I was sexually assaulted by a fellow graduate student when I was in grad school. The post was entitled “Testimony, Uncorroborated” and was a response to some of the criticisms that were in circulation about Christine Blasey-Ford who had, in […]
CFA: Conference on Imagination and Social Change, Claremont McKenna College, Sept. 26-28, 2019 (deadline: Mar. 15, 2019)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Michelle Moody-Adams, Columbia University Juliet Hooker, Brown University INVITED SPEAKERS Mavis Biss, Loyola University Maryland Sophie-Grace Chappell, The Open University Janine Jones, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Shen-yi Liao, University of Puget Sound Heidi Lene Maibom, University of Cincinnati Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa, Vassar College Though imagination is often associated with flights of fancy […]
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