Dr Liam Livesley

I am a philosopher in the UK. Most recently, I was a visiting lecturer at the University of Southampton.

My research is mostly in political philosophy of disability.

L.A.Livesley [at] soton.ac.uk

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Research

My current research focuses on disability pride: what we should think of it as being; how it should shape our theorising about disability; and how it compares to other pride movements.

My doctoral work defended a radical social constructionist account of disability, on which we should think of disability as a kind of subordination. It was funded by an AHRC Studentship, and supervised by Alex Gregory & Havi Carel.

I also have broader interests across social & political philosophy, including:

▪ Social ontology & social construction
▪ Epistemic (in)justice
▪ The politics of conceptual & semantic change, especially in conceptual engineering
▪ The political thought of J. S. Mill

Talks

Justice as a Constraint on Conceptual Engineering
28^th Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference, University of Oxford | Nov '24
ASPP Annual Conference, Swansea University | Jul '24
BPPA Annual Conference, University of York | Oct '23

Disability as Subordination
MANCEPT Disability & Justice Workshop, University of Manchester | Sep '24
Radical Disability Politics: A Global Dialogue, University of Brighton | Jun '24
Social Ontology 2023, Stockholm University | Aug '23

Making Sense of Disability Pride
Understanding Value XII, University of Sheffield | Jul '24
LSE Graduate Conference in Political Theory, LSE | May '24

Disability, Social Construction, and the Disappearing Body
CAPPE Interventions in Disability Politics Seminar, University of Brighton | Feb '24

Reasonable Adjustment, COVID-19, and Crises in Disability Justice
Nordic Network on Disability Research 16^th Research Conference, Reykjavík | May '23