Society for Philosophy and Disability

Email: spd@societyforphilosophyanddisability.org

Aims and Scope

The Society for Philosophy and Disability, or SPD, is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to furthering research and teaching on philosophical issues related to disability and to promoting inclusiveness and support for people with disabilities in philosophical education and in the profession of philosophy. SPD aims to provide a forum for philosophical discussion of disability by arranging meetings, maintaining an online presence, and organizing academic projects.

SPD News

Call for Abstracts – Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law and Bioethics
August 7, 2017 by Adam Cureton

See this Call For Abstracts: Harvard 2018 Conference - Disability, Law, and Bioethics for...
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Using QR Codes to Make Presentation Materials More Accessible
May 12, 2017 by Adam Cureton

Handouts, PowerPoints and other presentation and teaching materials are often not fully accessible...
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Eastern APA Presidential Address- Professor Eva Kittay
January 6, 2017 by Adam Cureton

Professor Eva F. Kittay (Stony Brook University, SUNY) will deliver the Eastern APA...
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For more information contact:

Adam Cureton
President, Society for Philosophy and Disability
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Tennessee
808 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996
spd@societyforphilosophyanddisability.org

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Society for Philosophy and Disability

4 months ago

I wrote up a how-to guide for a new, easy and free way I came up with to make handouts, PowerPoints and presentation materials more accessible for people like me who cannot see them during talks, lectures, etc. The idea is to insert QR codes (of the sort that are on airplane tickets) on presentation materials, which can easily direct a disabled audience member to an electronic version of your materials. After the talk, you can cancel the code so that it doesn't work anymore. This would really help, I think, to make presentations of most any kind more accessible for disabled people.

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Using QR Codes to Make Presentation Materials More Accessible

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Handouts, PowerPoints and other presentation and teaching materials are often not fully accessible to people with disabilities and others who have trouble seeing or reading printed or projected materi...

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Sergey Fox

5 months ago

Hello, I'm a new member and I'm disabled myself.
Question: does anyone here know about twice exceptionality? I am a philosophy major right now; in the future, I wish to be a therapist to work with gifted\disabled folks, twice exceptionals, because I see that human services and psychlogy are still in their infancy regarding intellectually gifted disabled folks.

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Steve Campbell

8 months ago

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Call for Abstracts

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Philosophical Perspectives on Disability: A Postgraduate Conference ...

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Society for Philosophy and Disability

9 months ago

Professor Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University) will deliver the Eastern APA Presidential Address on Friday, January 6 from 4:45-7:00pm. Her talk is titled "The Moral Significance of Being Human." ... See MoreSee Less

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Kevin Timpe

9 months ago

Of possible interest to folks here:

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