CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR A COLLECTION ON DISABILITY AND PHILOSOPHY
In recent years, an increasing number of philosophers (including political philosophers, feminist philosophers, and cognitive scientists) have begun to think and write more critically about disability, about how philosophical discourses represent disabled people, how these discourses impact on this socially constituted and disadvantaged group, and how the discipline of philosophy must be modified in order to include disabled philosophers. These critical reflections have coincided with, and to a large extent have been motivated by, worldwide political changes with respect to disabled people's participation in and access to society. Furthermore, this new philosophical work on disability seems to have been influenced by, and to have influenced, the work of disability theorists and researchers in the growing field of Critical Disability Studies.
This call seeks detailed abstracts of 500-750 words for an edited collection on disability and philosophy that aims to bring together some of this exciting and path-breaking philosophical work. Topics suitable for inclusion in the collection include (but are not limited to):
bioethics meets biopolitics
feminist analyses of disability
reconsidering prenatal testing, selective abortion, assisted suicide?
what does equality for disabled people require?
taking another look at Rawls, Dworkin, Sen, etc. on disability and distributive justice
situated knowledges, epistemic privilege, and disability
disability and intersectional approaches to oppression
the ethics and politics of disabled people's narratives and the approaches of cognitive science
phenomenological analyses of disability and shame, self-respect, and self-esteem
disability and aesthetics, conceptions of beauty, ugliness, wholeness, and the abject
philosophy of biology and the very idea of normal species-typical functioning
integrating disability theory into philosophy
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Nov. 15, 2005. Notification of acceptances by January 15, 2006. Completed papers due by May 15, 2006.
Abstracts and all enquiries about the collection should be directed to: Dr. Shelley Tremain at [log in to unmask] OR [log in to unmask]
About the editor: Shelley Tremain was the 1997-1998 Ed Roberts Post-doctoral fellow at UC-Berkeley and The World Institute on Disability. From 1999-2001, Tremain was employed as a Research Associate and Co-Principal Investigator at Canada's national policy research institute to promote the human rights of disabled people. She has published widely on disability and gender, disability and sexuality, disability and Foucault, and disability and social justice, and is the editor of Foucault and the Government of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2005). Her forthcoming work includes papers on disability and prenatal testing and disability and embryonic stem cell research.
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