Joel Michael Reynolds, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, will present “We are All Somebody’s Child: Disability, Speciesism and the Problem of Dehumanization” at 3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 25. Register for this Zoom presentation.
Reynolds’ talk is part of the series, “Stories of Survivability,” sponsored by the UNC Charlotte Center for Professional and Applied Ethics. His work explores the relationship between bodies, value, and society and is especially concerned with the meaning of disability, the issue of ableism and how philosophical inquiry into each might improve the lives of people with disabilities and the justness of institutions ranging from medicine to politics. He is the author of “The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain and the History of Morality” and co-editor of “The Disability Bioethics Reader.”