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esp. "Parents can facilitate or obstruct their children’s pursuit of certain goals"
For disabled children with nondisabled parents, the power dynamic has an additional layer: the parent's own standpoint may shape what goals seem worth pursuing in the first place
...this is a really interesting article on epistemic injustice and young people's agency 🧵
Registrations for the Annual Uehiro Lectures 2026 are now open: uehiro.ox.ac.uk/2026-lecture...
This lecture series, titled 'Moral Pressures: Bending Time, Shaping Wills', is going to be given by Prof Miranda Fricker, NYU.
#Ethics #Practicalethics #Philosophymatters
When in doubt go faster... ?!
Looking forward to listening to this. Competence, consent and parental decision-making for disabled children is territory I think about a lot
There's a paper in there somewhere about epistemic deja vu..
Banner photo: my grandmother, Helen Woolf, the only woman teaching at Westminster City School, 1951 (biology, and only because her chosen medical degree wasn't an option after her brothers had both trained as doctors)
My 7-year-old told me the other day that philosophy is about thinking about an idea and then finding other gateways to that idea that explain it better
But a nondisabled parent choosing between them isn't just making a practical decision. A disabled parent might weigh this very differently. It's a value judgement, and it's not the child's. #DisabilityStudies
Wheelchairs offer potential for early autonomy and a visible disabled identity.
Take the choice between a pushchair and a wheelchair for a disabled toddler. Pushchairs are lighter, cheaper, and easier to fold. The practical case is real.
We think parents know best for their young children. But 'knowing best' requires the ability to imagine your child's experience. What happens when you've never lived it?
He is scared of himself though which is pretty deep
Han Edgoose and I are organising a panel on Epistemic Injustice and Backlash at this year's MANCEPT Workshops! The call for abstracts is here, deadline May 1st: philevents.org/event/show/1...
Language, Ethics, and Society: Voices from research and AI, a CRASSH Connections event.
Join us at the CRASSH Connections event 'Language, Ethics, and Society: Voices from research and AI'
Listen to talks by two leading experts & connect with researchers, students, and professionals from across disciplines
19 March
12.30-2.30pm, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
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Join us next Tuesday for a free online lunchtime talk, on the harms caused by #DigitalMisogyny
📅 This online talk, by @alex-fisher.bsky.social, will be held on Zoom from 1-2pm.
Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/event/repres...
#GenerativeAI #deepfakes #SocialMediaEthics #philosophy
Value-laden, deeply weird, right on brand
Pleased to announce our workshop ‘Intimate (In)Justices’ at MANCEPT 2026
Co-convened alongside @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social and Charlotte Curran from @clsrleeds.bsky.social
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Coincidentally I went to a wedding here a long time ago and can vouch for this being a lovely place! +1 vote for your new life in the scottish borders ;)
Highlights from the Women in Philosophy lecture series: Lucienne Spencer on epistemic injustice and dementia youtu.be/gUHCkcRwYKA... #philsky #epistemicinjustice
Table of contents of Issue 5 of the JPD.
Issue 5 of The Journal of Philosophy of Disability (@jphildis.bsky.social) is out! Spread the word! #disability www.pdcnet.org/jpd/toc
I am yet to read this but pretty sure I could take a good guess at some of the reasons why
there are very few bluesky philosophy-related moments where i feel my niche idlewild knowledge might come in handy, so this is a real joy (i am a message)
Join us for the Oxford-Cambridge-London Philosophy of Medicine Society talk by Stephen John (University of Cambridge)
🗓️ Friday 13 March 2026 3pm - 5pm
📍 In-Person, LSE Campus
Abstract: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
#Philosophy #Medicine #PhilSci #LSEPhilosophy @ox.ac.uk
Well worth a read! This stuck with me:
'Dialogue—whether with a colleague or mentor, or, yes, even an AI—can be a corrective to that kind of tunnel vision'
Absolutely this - and for students without mentors/colleagues available to work through ideas, AI could be a genuine leveller
unsure but I'm on board with calling him Andre from now on
Alexander Edlich
This week's post is by Alexander Edlich (LMU Munich), and Alfred Archer (University of Tilburg) presenting their paper 'Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice' published in Social Epistemology.
#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....
Interesting post! Particularly like the distinction between calculators (converging on The Answer) vs LLMs (regressing to predictable averages)...