My count makes women 16% of the invited speakers.
Could we hear from feminist philosophers who have some background knowledge what they think of that? For example, is this an improvement? Just what you’d expect? Or…???
Day: January 25, 2010
CFP: SWIP at UK Joint Session
SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY (SWIP UK) PANEL AT THE 2010 JOINT SESSION OF THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY AND THE MIND ASSOCIATION
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, 9TH – 11TH JULY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
At the 2010 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, there will be a SWIP UK panel of papers devoted to topics in any area of interest to women in philosophy.
We solicit full papers,(2500 words) plus 250 word abstract, suitable to be delivered in no more than 20 minutes with a further 10 minutes for discussion. We encourage submissions from graduate students. (As with
all the open sessions, papers accepted for this session will not be published in the Supplementary Volume of the Aristotelian Society.)
The closing date for submissions is *1st March 2010*. We expect to confirm which papers have been accepted by the end of March.
Please make sure that your submission is suitable for anonymous reviewing and attach a separate document with your name and contact details. Email submissions are preferred; please send your full paper, with an abstract, as either .doc or .pdf attachment to Dawn Phillips, at dawn.phillips AT warwick.ac.uk or send a hard copy to: Dr Dawn Phillips, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
For information about SWIP UK, see http://www.swipuk.org
For information about the Joint Session at UCD, see http://ucdjointsession2010.com/
Speakers must be or become subscribing members of either the Aristotelian Society or the Mind Association, and register as a delegate for the Joint Session.
For details on how to join the Aristotelian Society, see http://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/subscriptions/index.html.
For the Mind association, see http://www.oxfordjournals.org/mind/access_purchase/price_list.html
Poor medical treatment is unhealthy
… and a study has now shown that this is a key reason for some of the health problems faced by those* who are “overweight”. The article discusses a huge range or problems, including:
-Attribution bias, in which doctors assume that the weight is responsible for other problems and thus misdiagnose.
-Doctors refusing to perform procedures which are more difficult due to the weight.
-Lack of equipment properly sized to deal with heavier patients.
-Shaming tactics, like a woman with a torn ligament, whose surgeon refused to operate until she “stopped eating fast food” (which she didn’t actually even eat).
*Sometimes the article is couched in general terms, other times it focuses on women.
Feminist Philosophers 