(This post comprises a slightly modified version of a response to my “Philosophy of Disability: Its Purposes and Places” that Julie Maybee delivered at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division conference in New York City on January 16, 2024. ________________________________________________________ Response to Shelley Tremain by Julie Maybee In my remarks today, I would like to […]
Disabled Philosopher and Philosophy of Disability Go to Syracuse
I had a wonderful time in Syracuse. My presentation at Syracuse University went very well and was very well received. I finally got to meet Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson in person and spent lots of time getting to know her better. Verena has expended a great deal of effort to make sure everything about the visit to […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Mylène Legault
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the one hundred and sixth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m 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 […]
Philosophy of Disability: Its Purposes and Places. Presentation to the Eastern APA, January 16, 2024
Before I begin, I want to express my sincere gratitude to Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for the tremendous effort that she has made to organize this symposium. I also want to thank Melinda, Julie, and Catherine for their participation in the symposium, as well as thank everyone else in the room who has come to the session. […]
Update on the Upcoming Eastern APA, Technology, and Philosophy of Disability
Yesterday, I posted on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about my computer problems in advance of the Eastern APA, requesting assistance from tech savvy philosophers who would be in New York for the meeting there this week. As I said in the post, computer mishaps have long been among my worst nightmares: writing for a broad audience is […]
Request for Some Assistance (in Advance of the Eastern APA)
Dear All, On the eve of my departure to the Eastern APA in New York, I am distraught and would be extremely grateful if someone (preferably a privileged philosopher) were to offer some assistance. As you may have read in previous posts at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, I am scheduled to present at the Eastern APA on […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, at 8 am 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 […]
Discounts on The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability!
Alas, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability won’t be on display at any of the publishers’ booths at the divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA). Nevertheless, discounts on purchase of the book, which were available to registrants of Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4, have been reinstated to coincide with the symposium […]
CFP: Compositing Man: Worldly-ecologies & Life/Death Affirming Perspectives (deadline: Mar. 15, 2024)
Compositing Man: Worldly-ecologies & Life/Death Affirming PerspectivesGuest Editors: Xalli Zúñiga & Stephanie Rivera BerruzphiloSOPHIA: Journal of Transcontinental Philosophy Feminism The colonial dynamics by which global capitalism asserts its dominance, establishing itself as the Earth’s prevailing economic system, give rise to metabolic rifts that tamper with the relations that make life possible. Through colonization, global capitalism […]
Disabling Bioethics: An Abolitionist Genealogy
Two weeks from today, that is, January 14, I leave for the Eastern APA in New York. I will present in an APA symposium on my work in philosophy of disability on Tuesday, January 16, and then travel to Syracuse on Thursday, January 18, to present at the Central New York Humanities Corridor on Friday, […]
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