Category: Announcements

  • Workshop Series – DIScourse

    Graduate students Sabrina Leeds and Sara Purinton are co-organizing a Philosophy and Disability Workshop, called the DIScourse. Beginning September 1st, the DIScourse will meet on Thursdays from 11:30am – 1:00pm Eastern for the duration of the fall semester (the group will poll for a new day/time in the spring). The first 5 weeks will be…

  • Essay Prize

    The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy has a new paper prize. The S. Kay Toombs Prize is for the best paper addressing disability, ableism, research in philosophy of disability, and/or research in critical disability studies by a junior scholar (scholar who has earned a PhD in the five years prior to the submission date)…

  • Change in SPD leadership

    David Wasserman is SPD’s new President. Adam Cureton stepped down so that he can focus on chairing the newly created APA Committee on the Status of Disabled People in the Profession. The Board of Directors asked David, who was Vice President of SPD, to finish out Adam’s term, which ends in Summer 2021, and David…

  • Sad news – Anita Silvers

    We were very sad to learn that Anita Silvers, a founding member of the SPD Board of Directors, passed away. Anita was a guiding light in Philosophy of Disability, and Philosophy more generally. She was also a tireless advocate, a wonderful teacher and a mentor and friend to many of us. https://philosophy.sfsu.edu/news-announce/dr-anita-silvers-november-1-1940-march-14-2019?fbclid=IwAR1Jl-m2GjZ9Nlb1GGmLf0Ix1jfLbAk8Jr_7t3EgOUpnt9K-as7iaweKwGI https://www.apaonline.org/news/442158/In-Memoriam-Anita-Silvers.htm

  • Sad news – Lawrence C. Becker

    We were deeply saddened to hear that Lawrence C. Becker has died.  He was an excellent philosopher, a model of grace and resilience, an admirable person, and a good friend to many of us. Becker made significant and lasting theoretical contributions to the philosophy of disability.  He also advocated for people with disabilities and broadened…

  • Sessions on Disability at the 2016 Eastern APA

    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 College of New Rochelle) “Ableist Implications of Diagnostics…

  • Congratulations to Eva Kittay, who will serve as Vice-President and then President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association

    Our very own SPD board member, Professor Eva Kittay, has been elected to serve as Vice-President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association this year.  She will serve as President of that division of the APA the following year.  Please join us in congratulating Eva, who we know will do a wonderful job! A…

  • Three disability sessions at the 2015 Pacific APA

    APA Pacific Division, Vancouver April 1-4, 2015 Group Session:  Society for Philosophy and Disability: Puzzles about Disability Saturday, April 4, 9:00-11:30am (Session G9L) Authors: Margaret Battin (University of Utah) Leslie Pickering Francis (University of Utah) Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University) Discussants: Sara Goering (University of Washington) Anita Ho (National University of Singapore and University of…

  • Postdoc positions on diversity – University of Deleware

    Short version: $60,000 + $5,000 research and travel funds. Feb 1 deadline. The  President’s Diversity Initiative at the University of Delaware, in collaboration with the  Center for the Study of Diversity, invites applications from recent Ph.D. graduates for two postdoctoral positions. The purpose is to promote early career scholars who are doing work that furthers…

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