Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and sixteenth 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 […]
The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability at a 30% Discount Until December 8
If you do not have a copy of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability and would like to get one, you can do so now at a discount. Until 11:59pm ET December 8, Bloomsbury Publishers is offering a 30% discount on its books–including The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability–in its holiday sale. To order The Bloomsbury […]
CFP: Dimensions of Difference: Exploring Diversity, Complexity, and Connection in Thought and Practice, Beacon College, Apr. 5-6, 2025 (deadline: Dec. 20, 2024)
“Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged.” -Audre Lorde Deadline for Submissions: December 20th 2024 Deadline for Notification of Acceptance: January 5th 2025 Location: Beacon College – Leesburg, FL Dates: April 5th & 6th Keynote Speakers: Robert Chapman (in-person) and Shelley Lynn Tremain (virtual) In a world characterized […]
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 […]
Corrections to Previous Post (with Apologies to Our Subscribers)
If you receive BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY posts through email and opened the previous post entitled “Meet the New Boss–Same as the Old Boss: Jenkins and Cull on Feminist Metaphysics,” you may have noticed a few (significant) editorial errors in the post. These mistakes have now been corrected in the post (go here). Please consider revisiting the […]
Meet the New Boss–Same as the Old Boss: Jenkins and Cull on Feminist Metaphysics
Frieder Vogelmann’s recent article** “Political Epistemology without Apologies” begins in this way: The recent interest in political epistemology seems easy to explain. Its rise to prominence is routinely traced to two events in 2016: the Brexit referendum in the UK and the election of Donald J. Trump as 45th president of the USA (e.g. Hannon & […]
Ten Questions about Disabled People Stemming from This Week’s U.S. Election
Many of my social media friends, most of whom are philosophers or other academics, are postulating the reasons why Trump won this week’s election in the United States. Many of them are also predicting what will unfold in the U.S. henceforth; (almost) invariably these predictions forecast catastrophe, increasing social injustice, hardening of sensibilities to the […]
CFP: League of African Women Philosophers (LAWP) First Anniversary Conference, Online, Jan. 24-25, 2025 (deadline: Nov. 10, 2024)
The League of African Women Philosophers is pleased to announce its first anniversary conference, which is focused on celebrating African women in philosophy. Although philosophy has been portrayed as an essentially masculine endeavor, women’s voices are becoming prominent in philosophical traditions around the world. In African history, women have played a central role in the […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, November 20, at 8 a.m. 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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Wednesday): Cressida Heyes on Identity Politics and Disability
This week’s contribution to the quote-of-the-week thread (though it’s only Wednesday) considers the extent to which nondisabled philosophers and nondisabled feminist philosophers in particular will give up their position of dominance with respect to what gets said about disability in philosophy, who gets to say it, and how it gets said. It has been almost […]
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