Our amazing BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger, disabled philosopher Mich Ciurria, has co-edited an inter/transdisciplinary collection entitled Liberation at the End of Usefulness: On the Intersections of Disability, Animality, and Earth with Amanda Williams and Nathan Poirier. The book is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan and is due out at the end of 2026. The book now has […]
CFP: Tackling Speciesism and Anthropocentrism in Higher Education, York/Online Workshop, May 15, 2026 (deadline: Mar. 30, 2026)
From institutional pressures to competing demands from students, teachers are increasingly having to navigate complex political, pedagogical, and ethical challenges. For anti-speciesist teachers in the context of anthropocentric societies, there are several further layers of difficulty: how should we approach the teaching of core subjects and the general “canon”, when those often replicate speciesist norms […]
Aristotelian Proto-racism and the Western Invention of the Zoological Other: Lessons from Maxi Glamour’s Genealogy
When I worked at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, I had the privileged of meeting Maxi Glamour, a philosopher, digital creator, activist, and mythical genderless fairy creature of many talents. I encourage readers to follow their blog and social media accounts if you don’t already. Recently, Glamour published a brief and illuminating genealogy of racism in philosophy, which […]
Preliminary Program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, Online, December 11-13, 2024
I have copied below the preliminary program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 which takes place online December 11-13, 2024, 13:00-18:00 GMT/UK Time (=ET+5). Information about registration for this event will appear here soon. Check back often! (All times in GMT/UK Time=ET +5) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 13:00-13:05 INTRODUCTIONS Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, […]
Why Should Philosophers with an Interest in Social Justice Care about Veganism? An Introductory Post to a Series on Veganism (Guest post)
Why Should Philosophers with an Interest in Social Justice Care about Veganism? An Introductory Post to a Series on Veganism by Tracy Isaacs As a feminist philosopher who works primarily on theories of collective action, collective responsibility, and collective obligation, I have spent a great deal of my career thinking about structural injustice and the […]
Disabled Philosopher and Philosophy of Disability Go to Syracuse
I had a wonderful time in Syracuse. My presentation at Syracuse University went very well and was very well received. I finally got to meet Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson in person and spent lots of time getting to know her better. Verena has expended a great deal of effort to make sure everything about the visit to […]
Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 (#PhiDisSocCh4), Online, Dec. 14-15, 2023-Registration Open!
Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 (#PhiDisSocCh4) comprises presentations by disabled philosophers whose cutting-edge research challenges members of the philosophical community to (1) think more critically about the metaphysical and epistemological status of disability; (2) closely examine how philosophy of disability is related to the tradition and discipline of philosophy; and (3) seriously consider how philosophy […]
Presentation: Ableism, Animals, and Apparatuses, Online, Aug. 31, 2021
Ableism, Animals, and Apparatuses by Shelley Lynn Tremain, Ph.D. Presented at Spécisme et Autres Discriminations / Speciesism and Other Discriminations, Online, Aug. 30-31, 2021 To increase the accessibility of my presentation, I have now posted it to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, the philosophy blog that I mentioned yesterday. The link that I have now put in the chat […]
Spécisme et Autres Discriminations / Speciesism and Other Discriminations, Online, Aug. 30-31, 2021
On August 31, I will make a presentation in this two-day free online conference, postponed from last year due to the pandemic, which is organized by Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) and Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA). My presentation, which is entitled “Ableism, Animals, and Apparatuses,” will be part of […]
CFP: Wild Animal Ethics, St. Andrews, Sept. 24-25, 2020 (deadline: May 31, 2020)
The Senate Room, University of St. Andrews Organisers: Ben Sachs, Mara van der Lugt Confirmed Speakers Alasdair Cochrane (University of Sheffield) Julia Driver (University of Texas-Austin/University of St. Andrews) Molly Gardner (Bowling Green State University) Oscar Horta (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) Josh Milburn (University of Sheffield) Mara van der Lugt (University of St. Andrews) […]
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