CURRENT TEACHING:
“Lives Worth Living: Disability, Medical Technologies, and the ‘New’ Eugenics” (2023S). Interdisciplinary Masters in Applied Ethics, University of Vienna.
NEXT TALK:
“Dis/ability Justice and the Problem with ‘Inclusion‘”, at Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy Summer School 2023, Inclusivity & Ethics, July 10-12 at University of Vienna.
RECENT ARTICLE:
“Social-epistemic practice and the limits of imagination“, published on The Junkyard (Nov. 2022).
PREVIOUS TALKS (2019-Present):
Dec. 1st, 2022: “A concept and theory of infantilisation, understood through disabled experience”. Online, as part of the Disability Research Forum seminar series 2022.
Oct. 29th, 2022: Seeing Dogs: Dis/ability and De/humanization in José Saramago’s ‘Blindness‘. As part of the panel, ‘Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism in Saramago’s Work’ at the VII International Conference “José Saramago’s Philosophical and Sociopolitical Heritage” in Vigo (Galicia, Spain).
Oct. 6th, 2022: Minority Minds & Epistemic Injustice (panel). At Inclusion Beyond Face Value: Metaphilosophy of Social Justice, Central European University, Vienna. Organised by the Minorities & Philosophy chapter at CEU.
Aug. 31st, 2022: [With Dr. Martin Huth] The Normate Body Schema and Assistive Technology: What Merleau-Ponty gets wrong about the ‘blind man’s cane’. At the British Society for Phenomenology 2022 Annual UK Conference’. University of Exeter (UK). Recording to follow.
May 19th, 2022. How can affective engagement help bridge the gulf between differently situated knowers? One hour discursive workshop session, as part of day-long workshop, ‘Knowing the Distance: Intersectional, Decolonial, and Affective Approaches to Knowledge’. At the Messerli Research Institute (Vienna). Abstracts and workshop information available here.
May 9th, 2022. Knowing Me, Knowing You, Aha! – Some Problems for Empathy as a Social-Epistemic Practice. At ‘Imagination & Empathy: What Possibilities, What Challenges, What Limits’ (one-day workshop). At the Dept. of Philosophy, University of Vienna, and online. Full abstract available here. Recording forthcoming.
April 3rd, 2022. Digging Outside the Field: Animalization and Animality, Within and Beyond Academic Philosophy. At ‘The State of Philosophy’: Annual Graduate Students in Philosophy Conference / Annual Duquesne Women in Philosophy Conference. Full recording (from Zoom) available here. Extended abstract and further details here.
March 26th, 2021. Infantilization, Dehumanization & Cognitive Disability. Full recording available here. Blog post summarizing the talk here. As part of the British Postgraduate Philosophical Association seminar series.
Dec. 10th, 2020. Notes From the Lunatic Fringe: A Thought Experiment Talks Back. At “Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives on Minorities and Philosophy”. University College Dublin. Full recording (incl. captions) available here.
April 19th, 2019. Speaker as part of panel event at University College Cork, “What does it mean to be autism friendly?”.
Articles, Essays, etc.
Infantilisation in Care, Community & Cognitive Disability. Master of Research thesis, 2021. Available at the Cork Open Research Archive (CORA) [at this link]. Introduction also available here.
Social-epistemic practice and the limits of imagination. Published on The Junkyard, 2022. [read it here]
Science as process versus science as behemoth. Published on the blog of the American Philosophical Association, 2019. Edited by David V. Johnson. [read it here]
The Living Mind: Explanation and experience in Nan Shepherd’s ‘The Living Mountain’. Published in Bloomers Vol. 2, 2018. [reprinted online here]
Awards
| Award | Year | Awarding Body |
| Pierce Malone Scholarship in Philosophy | 2019 | National University of Ireland |
| Graduate of the Year | 2019 | University College Cork |
| Peel Memorial Prize | 2019 | University College Cork |
| Honorable Mention: APA Undergraduate Public Philosophy Awards | 2019 | American Philosophical Association |
| Iress Award | 2017 | Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religion |
| College Scholar | 2015-2019 | University College Cork |
