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, organizing academic projects, and supporting The Journal of Philosophy of Disability.

SPD News

Essay Prize
June 29, 2021 by Adam Cureton

The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy has a new paper prize. The...
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Change in SPD leadership
October 8, 2020 by Adam Cureton

David Wasserman is SPD's new President. Adam Cureton stepped down so that he...
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SPD Partners with The Journal of Philosophy of Disability
May 24, 2020 by Adam Cureton

We are pleased to report that the Society for Philosophy and Disability has...
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For more information contact:

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

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Journal of Philosophy of Disability

4 weeks ago

Meet the Editors of the JPD: Dr. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke is a Professor of Philosophy and Bioethicist at Gallaudet University, the world’s only bilingual liberal arts college for deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing students. She is also a Board Member-At-Large of the Society for Philosophy and Disability and the new Chair of the American Philosophical Association Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion: www.apaonline.org/news/news.asp?id=580252&hhSearchTerms=%22Task+Force+on+Diversity+and+Inclusion%22 She works in a field that she defines as deaf philosophy - the space where philosophy intersects with Deaf studies. Her other research interests include disability and interpreting ethics, especially signed language interpreting ethics. Her current academic projects include assessing what it is to do philosophy in a signing deaf environment, overseeing the Responsible Conduct in Research program at Gallaudet University, converting her dissertation into a book manuscript, and writing a memoir. Check out her recent chapter, “We are all disabled, until we are not” (in “Defining the Boundaries of Disability”): www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780367855086-1oo/disabled-teresa-blankmeyer-burke ... See MoreSee Less

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Society for Philosophy and Disability

3 months ago

“Many of us who are disabled are not particularly likeable or popular in general or amid the abled. Ableism means that we–with our panic attacks, our trauma, our triggers, our nagging need for fat seating or wheelchair access, our crankiness at inaccessibility, again, our staying home–are seen as pains in the ass, not particularly cool or sexy or interesting. Ableism, again, insists on either the supercrip (able to keep up with abled-bodied club spaces, meetings, and jobs with little or no access needs) or the pathetic cripple." ... See MoreSee Less

Stop Talking About Accommodations and Start Talking About Access

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“Many of us who are disabled are not particularly likeable or popular in general or amid the abled. Ableism means that we–with our panic attacks, our trauma, our triggers, our nagging need fo...

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Society for Philosophy and Disability

3 months ago

Call for Papers for the Journal of Philosophy of Disability (JPD): Please consider sending your work on questions of disability to the JPD, and feel free to share this CFP in whatever way seems appropriate.The JPD is a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to questions regarding disability, broadly construed, and it is the first of its kind. Edited by Joel Michael Reynolds (Georgetown University) and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University), the journal will publish peer-reviewed articles, review essays, critical responses, and commentaries, as well as occasional topical clusters and symposia.The editors welcome scholarship from all philosophical perspectives, including analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions, the history of philosophy, empirically informed philosophy, non-Western philosophy, and other traditions and fields that substantively engage research in philosophy of disability.The JPD will be published fully open-access by the Philosophy Documentation Center with assistance from Georgetown University. The JPD supports and is also supported by the Society for Philosophy and Disability. Please send your submissions to jphildisability@gmail.com. You can find the submission guidelines here: www.pdcnet.org/jpd/Submission-Guidelines Authors will include Eva Feder Kittay, Jürgen Habermas, Havi Carel, Leslie Francis, Kim Q. Hall, Andrea Pitts, Desiree Valentine, Joseph Stramondo, Joseph J. Fins, Kevin Timpe, Adam Cureton, David Wasserman, Melinda Hall, Chris Kaposy, Licia Carlson, and Christine Wieseler. ... See MoreSee Less

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Society for Philosophy and Disability

5 months ago

"Should cure be the ultimate aim of health care? Sometimes aiming at cure entails trying to fix disability rather than enabling disabled people to flourish. Sometimes it obscures the goal of healing. And sometimes aiming at cure entails failing to distinguish between disease and difference. In this webinar, disabled writers and educators Anand Prahlad, Ann Millett-Gallant, and Karen Nakamura discuss how the idea of cure has shaped their own lives and how we can think beyond cure."Watch "Questioning Cure: Disability, Identity, and Healing,"part 4 of The Hastings Center online event series, “The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability” here...www.thehastingscenter.org/questioning-cure-disability-identity-and-healing/?utm_source=Master+Lis... ... See MoreSee Less

Questioning Cure: Disability, Identity, and Healing - The Hastings Center

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Part 4 of our online event series, “The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability.” Date: May 11, 2021Time: 3pm ESTASL and CART will be provided Should cure be the ultimate...

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The Journal of Moral Education

6 months ago

#Justice #Fairness #SelfRespect #SelfDevelopment - Adam Cureton explores the particular challenges faced by disabled students in developing & exercising these #virtues: buff.ly/3sUbK8H American Philosophical Association Society for Philosophy and Disability Routledge Education University of Tennessee Department of Philosophy University of Tennessee College of Arts & Sciences ... See MoreSee Less

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