Society for Philosophy and Disability Topic: Respecting People with Disabilities in Public and Private Life Date: Friday, January 6 9:00 a.m.–Noon Chair: Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University, SUNY) Speakers: John Vorhaus (University College, London) “Identity, Self-Respect, and People with Profound Cognitive Impairments” Alice Crary (The New School)
Read more →Society for Philosophy and Disability: Philosophy of Disability: Ableism and Affect FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 11:15 A.M.–1:15 P.M. Chair: Adam Cureton (University of Tennessee) Speakers: Joel Michael Reynolds (Emory University) “The Charmed Pendulum of Ability: Ethical Theory at the Intersections of Ableism and Affect” Jennifer Scuro (The
Read more →Society for Philosophy and Disability: Disability in Interpersonal Contexts – Monday, Dec. 29, 1:30-4:30 Chair: Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University) Speakers: Virginia Warren (Chapman University) “Moral Disability, ‘Moral Injury’, and the Flight from Vulnerability” Adam Cureton (University of Tennessee) “Portraying One’s Disability in Public” Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University) “I’ll Be Glad
Read more →Call for Abstracts The Second Annual Lehigh University Conference in Philosophy Philosophy Unbound Thursday October 23—Friday 24, 2014 Keynote speaker: Louise Antony, University of Massachusetts Amherst The Lehigh University Philosophy Department invites submissions for our Second Annual Conference in Philosophy. We are interested in submissions that challenge,
Read more →SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28th GV-11. Society for Philosophy and Disability 6:00-9:00 p.m. Chair: David Wasserman (National Institutes of Health) Speakers: Heather Bradshaw (Bristol University) “Morphological Diversity: Can Societies Promote Disability Rights and Human Enhancement?” Melinda Hall (Stetson University) “Transhumanist Utopias: Rethinking Enhancement and Disability” Commentators: Adrienne Asch (Yeshiva
Read more →2013 Annual Law and Society Assocation Conference Disability Legal Studies Panels (CRN#40) List of panels: I. Roundtable: Disability Legal Studies II. Access to Justice and the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities III. Law, Society, and Technologies: A Disability Perspective
Read more →Feminism and Disability Friday, March 29, 4-6 pm Chair: Pin-Fei Lu (Taipei Medical University) Speaker: Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar), “Educating Jouy: A Case Study of Ableism in Feminist Philosophy” Commentators: Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter College) Jana Sawicki (Williams College) Disability, Eugenics and Technology The session will be co-sponsored
Read more →There will be two sessions on disability at the 2012 Central APA in New Orleans: Disability: New Perspectives on Justice, Well-being and Virtue Sponsored by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness Co-sponsored by the Committee on Philosophy and Law Friday Feb. 22, 3:00-6:00 PM. Chair: Thomas E. Hill,
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