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The Journal of Philosophy of Disability. https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/journal?openform&journal=pdc_jpd Official journal of the Society of Philosophy & Disability. Editor-in-Chief: joelmreynolds.bsky.social.
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Her essay, “Gene Editing Technologies, Utopianism, and Disability Politics,” was included in the third volume of the JPD!

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Gene Editing Technologies, Utopianism, and Disability Politics - Volume 3, 2023
Scholars have long speculated about what a future affected by gene editing technologies might hold. This article enters current debates over the future of gene editing and the place of disability with...
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July 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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His essay, “Against Philosophy, Against Disability,” was included in the second volume of the JPD!

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Against Philosophy, Against Disability - Volume 2, 2022
This paper argues that the field of philosophy, and bioethics spe­cifically, engages in a series of speech acts that identify scholarship advocating for increased philosophical engagement with the exp...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Her essay, “Why Human Difference is Critical to a Conception of Moral Standing: An Argument for the Sufficiency of Being Human for Full Moral Status,” was included in the first volume of the JPD!

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Why Human Difference is Critical to a Conception of Moral Standing: An Argument for the Sufficiency of Being Human for Full Moral Status - Volume 1, 2021
I argue that the claim that merely being born of two human beings in a condition that supports life is sufficient for full moral status. Not only ought we not to exclude any human being from full mor...
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May 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Her prize-winning essay, “Accommodation Without the Demand for Explanation: Glissant, Disability, Opacity,” was included in the third volume of the JPD!

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Access Without the Demand for Explanation: Glissant, Disability, and the Right to Access Opacity - Volume 3, 2023
Within Western approaches to disability, the expectation for disabled people to ‘prove our disability’ is not only central for receiving access supports, but also for being accepted by those around us...
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May 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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His paper, “Gaming the System?: Justice, Fairness, and Disability Accommodations,” was included in the second volume of the JPD!

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Gaming the System?: Justice, Fairness, and Disability Accommodations - Volume 2, 2022
I am legally entitled to certain accommodations for my visual impairment that I do not always need. Affording me these rights is required by justice even on those rare occasions in which they are not ...
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April 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Her paper, “Supported Decision-making: The CRPD, Non-Discrimination, and Strategies for Recognizing Persons’ Choices About their Good,” was included in the first volume of the JPD!

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Supported Decision-making: The CRPD, Non-Discrimination, and Strategies for Recognizing Persons’ Choices About their Good - Volume 1, 2021
People with cognitive impairments often have difficulties formulating, understanding, or articulating decisions that others judge reasonable. The frequent response shifts decision-making authority to ...
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April 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Her paper, “Intellectual Disability, Dehumanization, and the Fate of 'the Human',” was included in the third volume of the JPD!

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Intellectual Disability, Dehumanization, and the Fate of “the Human” - Volume 3, 2023
Dehumanization Studies is a burgeoning field that has much to teach Critical Disability Studies and philosophers of disability. Conversely, a critical disability perspective can inform and challenge t...
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April 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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His paper, “Chronic Pain, Mere-Differences, and Disability Variantism,” was included in the second volume of the JPD!

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Chronic Pain, Mere-Differences, and Disability Variantism - Volume 2, 2022
While some philosophers believe disabilities constitute a “bad-difference,” others think they constitute a “mere-difference” (Barnes 2016). On this latter view, while disabilities may create certain h...
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March 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Her paper, “Technologies of Reproduction: Race, Disability, and Neoliberal Eugenics,” was included in the first volume of the JPD!

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Technologies of Reproduction: Race, Disability, and Neoliberal Eugenics - Volume 1, 2021
When considering the relation between race, disability, and reproduction, race and disability tend to figure as outcomes of reproduction. It is assumed that one births a child with a certain race and ...
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March 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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We are excited that her paper—“Concealing Gender Non-Conformity: A Trans Phenomenology of Disability”—was included in the fourth volume of the JPD!

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Concealing Gender Non-Conformity: A Trans Phenomenology of Disability - Volume 4, 2024
Cissexist perception involves a prejudicial judgment and an unmediated affective response, such as that of disgust, directed at the gendered aspects of another person. In this paper, I advance a view ...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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We are excited that his paper—“More than Merely Present: Mobile Maps and Agency in the City”—was included in the fourth volume of the JPD!

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More than Merely Present: Mobile Maps and Agency in the City - Volume 4, 2024
E-mapping technologies are a recent technological intervention promising to promote accessibility for disabled city residents. As part of their promise, they seem to position disabled people as agents...
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March 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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We are excited that his paper—“Curative Eschatology: Christian Ableism and Religious Cripistemology”—was included in the fourth volume of the JPD!

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Curative Eschatology: Christian Ableism and Religious Cripistemology - Volume 4, 2024
Mobilizing a “cripistemological” approach that “think[s] from the critical, social, and personal position of disability,” (Johnson and McRuer 2014, 134), this paper engages a fundamental site of Chris...
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February 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM