#NewArticle #OpenAccess "Trauma, Alienation, and Grasp" by Michaela M. McSweeney is available now! Read it here: www.pdcnet.org/jpd/content/... #PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky

Trauma, Alienation, and Grasp - published on July 3, 2026

First, I give an account of grasp alienation, which is a distinctive kind of alienation that happens when we cannot map our phenomenal experience of the world onto our cognitive understanding. Second,...

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Quill Kukla (@quillkukla.bsky.social) is Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University. For most of 2025 and 2026, they'll be a fellow at the SOCRATES Institute at Leibniz Universität Hannover. See their full bio at: www.quillrkukla.xyz and check out their article with us!

Quill R Kukla

I am Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.

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The Journal of Philosophy of Disability@jphildis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "Centering Gender Euphoria" by @quillkukla.bsky.social is available now! Read the full article here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2... #PhilSky #Philosophy #genderstudies #transstudies

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "Centering Gender Euphoria" by @quillkukla.bsky.social is available now! Read the full article here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2... #PhilSky #Philosophy #genderstudies #transstudies

Centering Gender Euphoria - published on May 23, 2026

The concept of gender dysphoria, typically understood as a pathological experienced mismatch between one’s “inner gender identity” and one’s body, has been central to defining and “diagnosing” transness. Gender euphoria, which I define as joy, excitement, or pleasure in one’s gendered embodiment (including the social reception and emplacement of one’s gendered body), is an important notion in trans communities, but it has received little attention from academics, health care systems, or mainstream culture. Beginning from the reality and central importance of euphoria allows us to better understand everyone’s gendered experience and embodiment, and to avoid the substantial conceptual and ethical harms inflicted by a mental health model of trans identity that centers dysphoria. Organizing our understanding of trans identity, desires, and experiences around trans joy is conceptually clarifying; helps ground better medical and legal policy; and is more accurate than when we organize it around trans tragedy and pathology, even while we retain our realism about the fact that trans tragedy and dysphoric suffering are real and important.

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📬 Submissions are open year-round at the Journal of Philosophy of Disability! We welcome scholarship from all philosophical perspectives and fields that substantively engage research in philosophy of disability. Learn more and submit: www.pdcnet.org/jpd/The-Jour... #PhilSky #Philosophy

The Journal of Philosophy of Disability - The Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Disability

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#NewArticle #OpenAccess The 5th Issue of the JPD is now available! We are thrilled to share this issue's exciting new contributions to the philosophy of disability with you all. Read the full issue here: www.pdcnet.org/collection-a... #PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky

Rebecca Esterson is Associate Professor of Sacred Texts and Traditions and Dean of the Center for Swedenborgian Studies in Berkeley, CA. Her research and teaching centers on hermeneutics, Jewish-Christian relations, biblical reception history, Swedenborgian studies, and death and dying.

The Journal of Philosophy of Disability@jphildis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "A Deafblind Critical Phenomenology: Helen Keller on Intersubjectivity and the Senses in The World I Live In" by Rebecca Esterson is available now! Read it here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2... #PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "A Deafblind Critical Phenomenology: Helen Keller on Intersubjectivity and the Senses in The World I Live In" by Rebecca Esterson is available now! Read it here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2... #PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky

Cynthia D. Coe is a professor of philosophy at Central Washington University. Her research interests are in contemporary Continental philosophy (especially the work of Emmanuel Levinas), medical ethics, and feminist theory. Her paper with us is out now! #philsky #philosophy #disabilitysky

The Journal of Philosophy of Disability@jphildis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "What the Suffering of Others Demands of Us: Levinas, Critical Disability Theory, and Procreative Beneficence" by Cynthia Coe is now out! Read it here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2... #PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "What the Suffering of Others Demands of Us: Levinas, Critical Disability Theory, and Procreative Beneficence" by Cynthia Coe is now out! Read it here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2... #PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky

What the Suffering of Others Demands of Us: Levinas, Critical Disability Theory, and Procreative Beneficence - published on February 3, 2026

In this paper, I offer a Levinasian critique of the moral reasoning within liberal eugenics—specifically, the principle of procreative beneficence. This principle asserts that prospective parents have...

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Osamu Muramoto is retired physician and neurologist. He was a senior scholar at the Center for Ethics in Health Care at Oregon Health and Science University. His research focuses on the bioethics of brain death, brain death determination, and end-of-life care. #philsky #philosophy

The Journal of Philosophy of Disability@jphildis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "Naturally Enhanced Capabilities in Bivalent Disability: A Case for the Incommensurability of Positive and Negative Well-Being" by Osamu Muramoto is now out! Read it here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2... #PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "Naturally Enhanced Capabilities in Bivalent Disability: A Case for the Incommensurability of Positive and Negative Well-Being" by Osamu Muramoto is now out! Read it here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2... #PhilSky #Philosophy #DisabilityStudies #DisabilitySky

Naturally Enhanced Capabilities in Bivalent Disability: A Case for the Incommensurability of Positive and Negative Well-Being - published on January 28, 2026

This essay introduces the concept of naturally enhanced capabilities in several types of disability and argues that such instances are best understood as bivalent disabilities, where impairment and en...

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The Society for #Philosophy and Disability's 2026 Anita Silvers Prize is now open for submissions! The deadline is June 15, 2026: www.societyforphilosophyanddisability.org/the-society-... #philsky #DisabilityStudies

Peter Katz is the Clinical Ethics Fellow at University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center and Lecturer in Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. His research focuses on justice at the intersections of pain, epistemology, embodiment, and language. #philsky

The Journal of Philosophy of Disability@jphildis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "The Double Double-Empathy Problem: The Empathy Deficit and Autistic People’s Moral Experience" by Peter Jeffrey Katz. Read now: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2.... #philsky #philosophy #DisabilityStudies

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "The Double Double-Empathy Problem: The Empathy Deficit and Autistic People’s Moral Experience" by Peter Jeffrey Katz. Read now: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2.... #philsky #philosophy #DisabilityStudies

The Double Double-Empathy Problem: Autistic People’s Moral Experience of the Alleged Empathy Deficit - published on January 17, 2026

This paper draws on neuroethics and analytic philosophy to critique the relationship between autism, empathy, and morality. Damian Milton’s double-empathy problem presents a problem for empathy resear...

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Reminder that the Journal of Philosophy of Disability accepts submissions year-round! We welcome scholarship from all philosophical perspectives and any other discipline that engages in the philosophy of disability: www.pdcnet.org/jpd/Submissi... #philsky #philosophy #DisabilityStudies

📢 Issue 5 of the JPD is almost here! Keep your eyes peeled, and stay tuned for the release!

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Amber Knight is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research focuses on contemporary democratic theory, disability theory, and feminist political thought.

Researcher Highlight: Johnathan Flowers is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. His work focuses on questions in African American intellectual history and philosophy, Japanese Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Disability.

Researcher Highlight: Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, a Senior Fellow of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, and an Affiliate of the Women's Studies Program. Her research focuses on feminist ethics and disability studies.

Researcher Highlight: Rhea Ienni is a philosophy PhD student at Loyola University Chicago and the 2022 winner of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) S. Kay Toombs Prize.

Researcher Highlight: Adam Cureton is the Lindsay Young Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. His research focuses on issues in ethics, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and the philosophy of disability.

Researcher Highlight: Leslie Francis holds joint appointments as Alfred C. Emery distinguished professor of law and distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on philosophy of law, bioethics, & disability law and ethics.

Researcher Highlight: Licia Carslon is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Providence College. Her research focuses on philosophy of disability, biomedical ethics, and 20th century continental philosophy.

Researcher Highlight: Thomas Nadelhoffer is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston, affiliate member of the Department of Psychology, and roster faculty member in the Neuroscience Program. His research focuses on moral psychology, free will, and neuroethics.

Researcher Highlight: Desiree Valentine is an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at Marquette University. She works at the intersections of Critical Philosophy of Race, Feminist Philosophy, Queer Theory, and Disability Bioethics.

Researcher Highlight: Bella-Rose Kelly is a doctoral candidate in the philosophy department at Georgetown University. Her research interests include critical phenomenology, settler colonial studies, and philosophy of disability.

Researcher Highlight: Dr. Nate Whelan-Jackson is an Associate Professor in the Religion and Philosophy Department at Capital University. His research focuses on pragmatism, philosophy of disability, and 20th century philosophy.

Researcher Highlight: Joshua St. Pierre is Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He researches the interplay between communication and disability in information societies.

Researcher Highlight: Chris Weigel is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Utah Valley University. Her research extends to caregiving ethics, experimental philosophy of free will, and moral psychology.