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Philosophy of Disability at the CPA
It occurred to me that readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, especially readers and listeners of the blog who are members of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), might be interested in knowing what is planned for “Disabling Philosophy in the Canadian Context,” the symposium that I have organized for the upcoming meeting of the CPA […]
Why Have (Feminist) Philosophers Ignored Nursing Home Incarceration?
My article “Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex” appears in the recently published special issue of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies that I guest edited. The article is in partictular the culmination of research that I conducted on nursing homes and other so-called long-term care institutions from early 2000 to mid […]
Special Issue on Indigeneity and Disability
The current issue (vol. 41, no. 4, 2021) of the interdisciplinary journal Disability Studies Quarterly is devoted to the theme “Indigeneity and Disability.” The TOC for the issue and links to its contents are below. Vol. 41, No. 4 (2021) Fall 2021 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v41i4 Table of Contents Prefatory Matter Indigeneity & Disability: Kinship, Place, and Knowledge-MakingJuliet […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Adrian Ekizian Barton
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the eighty-second installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers […]
Help Fund the Dialogues on Disability Series
From April 2015 to May 2021, I coordinated, edited, and produced the Dialogues on Disability series without any institutional or other financial support. A Patreon account now funds the series, enabling me to continue to create it. You can contribute your support for these vital interviews with disabled philosophers at the Dialogues on Disability Patreon […]
On Moderation
Something my late friend, the philosopher Maite Ezcurdia used to always stress was that extreme positions are always the most stable, while moderate positions are always more attractive, but unstable. What I take this to mean is that extreme positions are more internally coherent, but have contra-intuitive consequences. This means that they show more abstract […]
Videos of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 2 (#PhiDisSocCh2) Now Available Online!
The much-awaited videos of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 2 (#PhiDisSocCh2) conference that took place December 7-10, 2021 are now available online! If you were unable to attend the conference, missed some of the sessions, or simply want to experience again the amazing presentations that were given over the four days of the conference, […]
Philosophy Has a Body-shaming Problem
1. “Diet Culture is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral.” In a recent New York Times article, Kate Manne pointed out that philosophy has a body-shaming problem. She focused on fat-shaming, but one can extend her arguments to disability-shaming. Just as fat bodies are stigmatized, disciplined, and marginalized in philosophy, so are disabled bodies. Indeed, many of Manne’s claims […]
Philosophy of Disability at the Canadian Philosophical Association, May 17-20, 2022, Online
It is with great pleasure that I can now report that the proposal which Alex Bryant, Amandine Catala, Emily R. Douglas, Isaac Jiang, Audrey Yap, and I submitted to the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) for a 3-hour symposium entitled “Disabling Philosophy in the Canadian Context” has been accepted for inclusion on the programme of the […]
CFP: Critical Genealogies Workshop, University of Richmond, Oct. 21-22, 2022 (deadline: Mar. 31, 2022)
Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop Call for Papers University of Richmond, Richmond, VA October 21–22, 2022 (with an opening night gathering on Thursday, Oct 20; workshop sessions on Friday & Saturday) The Critical Genealogies Workshop provides a space of collaboration and experimentation for scholars who deploy genealogy in order to investigate problematizations, possibilizations, […]
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