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Joel Michael Reynolds
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Philosopher of Disability & Bioethicist @Georgetown. They/he. Editor-in-Chief: @jphildis.bsky.social
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It was such a delight for the Georgetown Disability Studies Program to host Prof. Doron Dorfman to talk about his award-winning paper, "Third-Party Accommodations." It sparked many fruitful conversations about the ADA and how it could be epanded! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Image of majestic lecture hall that is also a library with a packed audience of students and faculty. Speaker is Prof Doron Dorfman and you can see a powerpoint slide with the title "Access" at the top as well as an ASL interpreter to the right of the speaker.
October 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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THE ART OF FLOURISHING is out! Breaking into the top 15 ethics books on Amazon today, I am so honored to have worked w/ Erik Parens, Liz Bowen, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and our brilliant contributors to bring this conversation out into the world! #disability #ethics tinyurl.com/w8z4kuat
June 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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If you'd like a distraction from all the horrors, consider checking out five masterclasses on inclusive philosophies organized by The Philosopher! My Philosophy of Disability Masterclass is on Friday, March 28th 2pmEDT/6pmUK. Registration details below. www.thephilosopher1923.org/groups-class...
To mark the two-week British Philosophical Association-led #PhilosophyMatters campaign running from 17th-31st March, The Philosopher is hosting five Zoom “masterclasses” on a range of inclusive philosophies. Each masterclass will be led by a prominent academic, who will give a short presentation before opening to discussion with the audience.
March 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Grateful to all those who came out for my talk and book signing as part of USC's Visions and Voices series! Special thanks to Sabrina Derrington, the Keck School of Medicine’s Humanities, Ethics, Art, & Law Program, USC's Provost's Office, and the Center for Bioethics at Children's Hospital LA.
Joel Michael Reynolds (in a black button up and dark gray blazer) holding a poster for their talk "Disability, Medicine, and the Path to Health Justice" as part of the USC Visions and Voices 2025 series. They are standing next to an employee from the bookstore who is holding their book, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality."
March 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Over the moon that a review symposium on my book, The Life Worth Living, is out in Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology. It is such an honor to receive this sort of critical engagement and to respond to it. puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu... #disability #philsky #phenomenology
Screenshot of the webpage for the journal "Puncta - Journal of Critical Phenomenology" with a multi-colored rock formation in the background. It specifies the special issue: Volume 7, no. 2: Symposium on Joel Michael Reynolds' The Life Worth LIving: Disability, Pain, and Morality.
December 2, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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Wild to think it's been two years since The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality came out. I'm really looking forward to sharing the review symposium when it drops this fall from Puncta: A Journal of Critical Phenomenology. #disability #philsky #philosophy
An adorable miniature dachshund looking directly into the camera with his front right paw on the book, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" by Joel Michael Reynolds.
May 19, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality found out in the wild at a bookstore in Toronto! Thanks to @samerrox.bsky.social for passing this along!
A colorful bookshelf from a small bookstore in Toronto with the title "Disability Studies." In the dead center of the image is the spine of Joel Michael Reynold's "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality."
March 25, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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Tenured. Lots of emotions, but the primary one is gratitude to my family, for whom all of my work is carried out and who are its primary condition of possibility. Also, massive gratitude to John Lysaker, who has been a steadfast, catalyzing mentor for just shy of twenty years.
A picture from 2007 of Joel Reynolds (blue shirt, long brown hair, big smile), Jason Reynolds (smiling, in his wheelchair, with a canula in his nose), Gail Reynolds (pink shirt, late 40s, long brown hair), Alan reynolds (blue shirt, big moustache, and short brown hair), Grandma Babe (pink blouse and perfectly permed gray hair), and Papa Jack (white cardigan over a blue collared shirt, canula in his nose).
January 19, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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Thrilled for the authors-meets-critics panel on my book, The Life Worth Living, at the APA Eastern this week! Featuring Eva Feder Kittay and Kim Q. Hall, it's Thursday from 9:00-10:50am for those interested.
Content the same as post except that it specifies the chair of the session: Paul Tubig (Georgia Southern University).
January 15, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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Thrilled to be giving an invited lecture at this year's International Merleau-Ponty Circle in Melbourne! The IMPC has been one of my intellectual homes for many years now, and I can't wait to learn and think together.
A white poster with an image of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (mid-20th century French philosopher) sitting at a desk. The poster is for the 47th Annual Conference of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle. Conference title: "Merleau-Ponty and Embodiment: Between the Cognitive, Aesthetic, and Socio-Political." 4-6 Dec 2023, Deakin University - Naarm/Melbourne Keynote addresses: Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis, University of Wollongong) Alia Al-Saji (McGill University) Invited lectures: Claude Romano (Sorbonne University, Australian Catholic University) Kym Maclaren (Toronto Metropolitan University) Joel Michael Reynolds (Georgetown University) Directed by Helen Ngo and Jack Reynolds; this year’s conference will run two parallel sessions: a general program and a thematic stream on racism.
November 28, 2023 at 8:29 AM
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So grateful for an author-meets-critics session on The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality at the 61st Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy! Jane Dryden and Licia Carlson provided such thoughtful readings of and insights into the book.
A photo from the audience of an Author-Meets-Critics Panel on Joel Michael Reynold's book The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality. The image shows Joel Michael Reynolds (in a black v-neck t-shirt and black blazer, a white person with glasses and brown hair), Licia Carlson, wearing a black and white checkered top, a white person with medium-length silver hair, Jane Dryden, wearing a red short-sleeved top, glasses, a white person with reddish-pink hair and a high-quality mask; and Susan Bredlau, in all black, a white person with short brown hair and glasses. It's a long table with laptops, lots of water, against a boring white conference wall.
October 16, 2023 at 7:43 PM
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Thrilled to be in conversation with Oche Onazi at the upcoming Radical Philosophy Hour--live on Youtube August 7th at 4pmEST. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1JHUaoDnKRAetTH-gQYR2g
White background image with black and red lettering stating: "Radical Philosophy Hour: August 7th, 4pm EST." Hosted by the Radical Philosophy Association. Feature Oche Onazi (University of Northumbria), who will be presenting Decolonising Disability Studies: Rethinking disability justice through an African relational community ideal. Featuring Joel Michael Reynolds (Georgetown University), who will be presenting on The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality.
July 26, 2023 at 7:06 PM
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This good boi is ready for the revolution.
Photo of Schnerp, the cutest mini dachshund in the world. He is looking soulfully into the camera against a b&w background of blankets.
July 6, 2023 at 10:11 PM