It’s a big weekend for DERPs and their conferences. You may recall (as I indicated here) that DERPs is the acronym for Disabled Exclusionary Righteous Philosophers, the term that I coined to refer to philosophers who (apparently without shame) variously organize, attend, participate in, promote, or fund inaccessible– that is, exclusionary–and unsustainable philosophy conferences. Here […]
CFP: 2024 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy, Nov. 21-22, 2024 (deadline: Jul. 24, 2024)
2024 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy Dates: November 21-22 (no fee, participation is free) Theme: Rivers and mountains in environmental philosophies in Asia Rivers are flowing, ever-changing and becoming. Mountains tend to be represented as more static aspects of local historical, cultural and natural landscapes. Rivers and mountains are at the heart of many […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On Arguments for Veganism, Sustainability, and Accessibility
This week’s quote of the week (though it’s only Thursday) concerns arguments for veganism and in particular follows from a defense for veganism that was offered in the discussion period of a recent online event. Last week, I attended a session of The Collective Ethics Seminar in which Tracy Isaacs gave a presentation entitled “Meat-Eating […]
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 […]
CFP: Philosophy and the Climate Crisis, Online, Jun. 11-12, 2021 (deadline: Oct. 31, 2020)
Climate change presents a major challenge for our time. It is expected to greatly increase global temperatures, “natural” disasters, political instability, war, disease, drought, and famine in this century. Its impacts are far-reaching and distributed unequally. In this conference, we aim to make progress toward addressing climate change, both by addressing the philosophical challenges it […]
CFP: 9th Annual Radical Democracy Conference: “Radical Ecologies,” New School of Social Research, Apr. 10-11, 2020 (deadline: Feb. 1, 2020)
The 9th annual Radical Democracy conference, sponsored by the Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research, will convene theorists and practitioners around the theme of Radical Ecologies. In the year that “climate strike” was named word of the year by Collins Dictionary, we seek to explore what opportunities for democratic resistance can […]
CFP: Posthuman Agency, 4th Global Posthuman Symposium, NYU, Apr. 30-May 2, 2020 (deadline: Dec. 31, 2019)
We are delighted to announce the 4th Posthuman Global Symposium, to be held at New York University, New York, USA*. This Symposium is dedicated to exploring the importance of posthuman agency in the interrelated significations of human and non-human realms. We intend to spark a deep and multilayered analysis of posthuman agency both as praxis […]
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