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Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches 12 (2/3) 2026
I am very happy to present “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” the amazing special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (12 [2/3] 2026) that I have guest edited to commemorate the centennial of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 12 (2/3) 2026: “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches” https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/issue/view/2385 Finally, Foucault: […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Stephanie Jenkins
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and thirty-eighth 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 […]
What is Radical Exclusion, according to Elena Ficara:
Not everywhere you are banned from, you are being excluded from. You can only be excluded from where you belong.
Quotes of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Tremain and Stanley on Fascism and Ableist Analyses of It
As you know by now, I have guest edited a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on Foucault and feminist philosophy entitled “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue, which was expected to be published at the beginning of the month, has been delayed. I attribute this delay to ableism, primarily. This […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at 8am ET
“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
Special Issue of Análisis Filosófico: “Oppressive Argumentation: Silencing and Oppressive Speech in Argumentation” (deadline: Oct. 31, 2026)
This special issue aims to collect original articles in Spanish and English devoted to the analysis of oppressive discourses within our argumentative practices, with a particular emphasis on those commonly found in Latin American contexts. Informal logic, epistemology, and gender studies will serve as the central—though not exclusive—perspectives guiding this special issue. We may understand […]
FREE PALESTINE
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Whose Judgement and What Counts as Winning?
As reported by Daily Nous, The Philosopher’s Annual — “The list aims to ‘select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year—an attempt as simple to state as it is admittedly impossible to fulfill’”– has announced its selections. This is the question that I posed to Sergio Tenenbaum (one of the editors/judges in the […]
How Nathan Cofnas Took a Page from the Republican Playbook and Won
The first rule of the Republican playbook is: when under scrutiny, start a witch hunt to distract from your own crimes. This is precisely what Nathan Cofnas did, and with great success. Whenever someone points out that Cofnas should never have been hired by the University of Ghent on the merits of his “research” on […]
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