Within both the discipline and profession of philosophy, the exact nature of the differences between two methodological approaches—namely, (so-called) analytic philosophy and (so-called) continental philosophy—has been a contested matter and source of controversy for quite some time, in part because these approaches embody disparate institutional positions with respect to status and prestige. Although analytic philosophy […]
Thinking Trans//Trans Thinking Conference, Goucher College/Online, Oct. 26, 28, 29
Thinking Trans // Trans Thinking Conference Final Program All times are in EST Wednesday, 10/26 (Virtual) Friday, 10/28 Saturday, 10/29 Register for the conference here. The original post of the program and additional information can be found at the Trans Philosophy Project website here.
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, October 19th, 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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
Entangled Ecologies: The Climate of Justice, philoSOPHIA 2022, Program and Registration, June 2-4, 2022, Online/George Mason University
Venue: all in person events will take place on the GMU Fairfax campus: Times: all times are US Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Modality: this is a hybrid conference. Some sessions will run in a fully virtual modality via zoom; in other sessions all of the speakers will be presenting in-person. All of the keynote presentations […]
Trans Visibility Day Resources
Although I want to point out that the continued use of ocular metaphors is unappealing, I also want to acknowledge the significance of Trans Visibility Day itself and suggest some resources that should interest the philosophical community. (For a critique of the very idea of trans visibility from trans historian of colour Jules Gill Peterson, […]
CFA: UK Workshop in Trans Philosophy, Glasgow Online, Mar. 24-25, 2022 (deadline: Feb.1, 2022)
CFA: UK Workshop in Trans Philosophy Deadline: February 1, 2022 The first UK Workshop in Trans Philosophy will take place over two days on 24th and 25th March. Whilst nominally based at the University of Glasgow, the workshop will take place online. Trans philosophy – philosophy that speaks to the experiences of, politics, and cultural production […]
Is This Post Substantive Enough?
After Justin Weinberg called my work on the metaphysics of disability “bullshit” in a comment on the Daily Nous blog back in the Spring of 2017, that blog began to rub me the wrong way. Since then, I have commented on it only once or twice. Nevertheless, I often glance at the posts on Daily […]
