Publication: When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability

The (penultimate, i.e., uncopyedited) version of my article “When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability” is now on PhilPapers here: https://philpapers.org/rec/TREWMR The article will appear in Mich Ciurria’s special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on feminist approaches to moral responsibility theory. The abstract for the article appears below: In this article, I aim to demonstrate […]

Inaugural Stuart Hall Essay Prize (deadline: Nov. 6, 2023)

The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to invite submissions for the inaugural Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Stuart Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse. The prize will award £2,000 to a selected writer whose […]

Madpeople’s Coping Mechanisms, Oxford/Hybrid, Sept. 25-6, 2023

Organized by Paul Lodge and Sofia Jeppsson Madpeople/service users/psychiatric patients are a heterogenous group. Indeed, there’s evidence both of variety on a neurological level and of quite different phenomenologies even among people with the same diagnosis (e.g., bipolar disorder or schizophrenia) and/or the same “symptom label” (e.g., mania or thought insertion). It should therefore not […]

Dialogues on Disability: Centennial Edition

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the 100th 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 […]

Vegan. Practically.

That’s the name of a relatively new blog produced, hosted, and authored by philosopher Tracy Isaacs. The blog is designed to work through some philosophical, political, social, and economic concerns and interests with respect to veganism, its justifications, and its requirements, as well as offer advice about how to accomplish them, including cooking guidance and […]

Dialogues on Disability, Centennial Edition, Wednesday, July 19, at 8 am

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 […]

Say Goodbye to Moral Responsibility Theory As You Know It

My article in Mich CIurria’s forthcoming special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on Feminist Approaches to Moral Responsibility contributes to growing discussions within philosophy about the ways in which and the extent to which philosophers are culpable with respect to the production and perpetuation of unjust social and political arrangements. A central motivational assumption of […]

Cover of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability

I have posted below the cover that I designed for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, with some valuable feedback from Amandine Catala, Gen Eickers, Ada Jaarsma, Corinne Lajoie, and Melinda Hall. The design of the cover is intentional in a variety of ways: the lettering is in a sans serif font and in […]

Two More Endorsements for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability

As the publication date for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability approaches, the anticipation that I and the contributors to this pathbreaking collection feel continues to grow. I have now finalized an absolutely stunning cover for the book with the design team at Bloomsbury. I will present that book cover to you in due […]