Happy New Year.

In several months, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, which I have edited and anthologized, will be released. I am tremendously pleased with the collection which comprises twenty-six bold chapters. The book promises to be a significant intervention in philosophy.

To give you some idea of what to expect later this year, I have copied below the table of contents for the collection. As the titles of the chapters indicate, the chapters cover uncharted territory, open new avenues of inquiry, and will considerably expand the purview of philosophy of disability–a subfield of philosophy that I have laboured, for years, to bring into existence.

In the near future, I will post (a draft of ) the introduction to the book, a portion of which I presented to Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 #PhiDisSocCh3. First, however, I would like to offer a blurb about the book which will be used in promotional materials:

“The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability encompasses the most innovative and insurgent work currently done in philosophy of disability, an emerging subfield of the academic discipline of philosophy. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this revolutionary collection comprises twenty-six chapters whose authors challenge how disability has historically been understood and represented in philosophy, critically undermining the deleterious assumptions that various subfields of philosophy—including bioethics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy—produce and boldly articulating new insights and perspectives that run counter to these assumptions. Although this outstanding collection is especially pertinent to discussions amongst philosophers, it will be invaluable to scholars and students in a range of disciplines and to cultural workers and activists in an array of domains.”

THE BLOOMSBURY GUIDE TO PHILOSOPHY OF DISABILITY

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

NEW MOVEMENT IN PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY OF DISABILITY

Shelley Lynn Tremain

I DESEGREGATING THE DISCIPLINES  

ACADEMIC FREEDOM, EPISTEMOLOGIES OF CRISIS, AND THE MYSTIQUE OF BIOETHICS

Shelley Lynn Tremain

WOULD YOU KILL THE FAT MAN HYPOTHETICAL? FAT STIGMA IN THE DISCIPLINE OF PHILOSOPHY

Kristin Rodier and Samantha Brennan

PRURIENTLY FEARED: THEORETICAL ERASURE OF THE DISABLED BLACK MALE

Tommy J. Curry

DISABILITY, DISSONANCE, AND RESISTANCE: A MUSICAL DIALOGUE

Licia Carlson

NEURODIVERSITY, ANTI-PSYCHIATRY, AND THE POLITICS OF MENTAL HEALTH

Robert Chapman

DISABILITY AND AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY

Julie E. Maybee

II MECHANISMS OF OPPRESSION  

THE APPARATUS OF ADDICTION: SUBSTANCE USE AT THE CROSSROADS OF COLONIAL ABLEISM AND MIGRATION

Andrea J. Pitts

DISABILITY, ABLEISM, CLASS, AND CHRONIC FATIGUE

Mich Ciurria

ALGORITHMS AS ABLEIST ORIENTATION DEVICES: THE TECHNOSOCIAL INHERITANCE OF COLONIALISM AND ABLEISM

Johnathan Flowers

THE ART OF KINSHIP: AN INTERSECTIONAL READING OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE PRACTICES

Desiree Valentine

EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE AND EPISTEMIC AUTHORITY ON AUTISM

Amandine Catala

III PHENOMENOLOGIES OF ACCESS AND EXCLUSION   

DISABILITY, ACCESS, AND THE PROMISE OF INCLUSION: RETURNING TO INSTITUTIONAL LANGUAGE THROUGH A PHENOMENOLOGICAL LENS

Corinne Lajoie

STUTTERING AND ABLEISM: A STUDY OF EVENTFULNESS

Joshua St. Pierre

FRANTZ FANON AND DISABILITY: FRICTIONS AND SOLIDARITIES

Emily R. Douglas

EXEMPTION, SELF-EXEMPTION, AND COMPASSIONATE SELF-EXCUSE

Sofia Jeppsson

PATHOLOGIZING DISABLED AND TRANS IDENTITIES: HOW EMOTIONS BECOME MARGINALIZED

Gen Eickers

IV DISABLING NORMATIVITIES   

A CRIP READING OF FILIPINO PHILOSOPHY

Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

RECOGNIZING HUMAN FLOURISHING IN THE CONTEXT OF DISABILITY

Jordan Joseph Wadden and Tim Stainton

NEURODIVERSITY AND THE ETHICS OF ACCESS

August Gorman

THE ETHICS OF DISABILITY PASSING AND UNCOVERING IN THE PHILOSOPHY CLASSROOM

Joseph A. Stramondo

INCLUSIVE ETHICS: A PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE

Stephanie Jenkins

V RESISTING EPISTEMOLOGIES   

RISKING OURSELVES, TOGETHER: THE POLITICS AND PERSONS OF RISK

Melinda C. Hall              

DISABLEMENT AND AGEISM

Christine Overall

POWER-KNOWLEDGE AND EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE IN EMPLOYMENT FOR DISABLED ADULTS

Josh Dohmen

“BUT YOU DON’T LOOK AUTISTIC”: RESISTING NEUROTYPICAL NARRATIVES

Nathan Moore

NOCEBOS TALK BACK: MARKED BODIED EXPERIENCE AND THE DYNAMICS OF HEALTH INEQUALITY

Suze G. Berkhout and Ada S. Jaarsma

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