Melinda C. Hall, PhD

I just started an accelerated summer Logic course at Stetson this morning – just four weeks, and a great introduction to general logic! It’s a small group, and so a cozy atmosphere to learn in, and I’m looking forward to giving them some challenging problems. Today’s Wason Selection Task was a good start.

I just wrote a new blog post for Discrimination and Disadvantage! Check it out.

Check out the fantastic third anniversary installment of Shelley Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability series, published in dialogue with Devonya Havis and Audrey Yap! It’s been an incredible and rich three years – celebrate Shelley’s work and the building of community by reading and commenting.

I am excited to join a group of very interesting academics next week to talk all about enhancement, at the Ethics of Enhancement Workshop hosted by Rutgers University, Camden! Thank you so much to Dr. Eric Chwang for the invitation, and for arranging and funding this event. I look very forward to it.

I had a blast presenting my recent research on the individualization of risk for the Philosophy and Medicine conference at Florida Gulf Coast University last weekend. I also was thrilled by the quality of student papers at the conference! It was fun and fulfilling to get to know new people in the region who are…

So excited to be part of the philoSOPHIA 2018 panel for Shelley Lynn Tremain’s fabulous book, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability! I get the honor of introducing the book and kicking off the panel. While I am very disappointed I cannot be there in person, I’ll call in tomorrow and join the wonderful Shelley, Devonya Havis…

To the Stetson University and DeLand community: On February 16th, the Community Education Project (CEP) is hosting Open House for anyone interested in learning more about higher education in prison and potentially getting involved as a lecturer or volunteer. CEP was established by Stetson professors in 2015 at Tomoka Correctional Institution located in Daytona, Florida with…

Edited Volume Philosophy of Disability: New Perspectives (Rowman & Littlefield International) Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University) and Melinda Hall (Stetson University) are very pleased to accept submissions for an edited volume entitled Philosophy of Disability: New Perspectives (Rowman & Littlefield International). The volume will track new developments in the philosophy of disability, emerging issues, and the…

Shelley Tremain and I wrote a blog post about the ableism of the #MeToo Movement. Here is an excerpt: “Indeed, the attention of the #MeToo Movement has been unevenly distributed—regarding both who can claim to be a victim and who can be framed as an offender. Gabrielle Union, a black movie star and writer, argues…

I was so thrilled to see my recent book, The Bioethics of Enhancement, reviewed in the Hastings Center Report by Joel Michael Reynolds. Check out the whole issue, including the review, “Being Better Bodies”. Here’s an excerpt from the extremely thoughtful review: “Claims that things will be better when we have progressed beyond our current embodied conditions…