Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the seventy-seventh 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 philosophers […]
CFP: Epistemic Injustices (deadline: Sept. 30, 2021/30 de septiembre, 2021)
Call for Papers Epistemic Injustices Estudios de Filosofía No 66, June-December 2022 Philosophy journal The concept of epistemic injustice has been a focus of interest in contemporary philosophical discussions. The conceptualization of epistemic injustice echoes the need to erase the apparent boundaries between epistemology and other areas of philosophy. This dialogue highlighted the connections between epistemic relations […]
Spécisme et Autres Discriminations / Speciesism and Other Discriminations, Online, Aug. 30-31, 2021
On August 31, I will make a presentation in this two-day free online conference, postponed from last year due to the pandemic, which is organized by Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) and Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA). My presentation, which is entitled “Ableism, Animals, and Apparatuses,” will be part of […]
What Can We Know About Future Children? The Limits of Risk Assessment
On Friday, August 20 at 3pm EST, my wonderful co-coordinator of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Melinda Hall, will deliver a presentation, organized by the Center for Dignity in Health Care for People with Disabilities, entitled “What Can We Know About Future Children? The Practical and Moral Limits of Risk Assessment in Reproduction.” The event will take place […]
CFP: Special Issue of Res Cogitans: The Philosophy of Aging (deadline: Sept. 15, 2021)
This special issue of Res Cogitans will present philosophical perspectives on aging and the life course. One central focus is vulnerability and imperfection. Elderly people are standardly categorized as vulnerable, but vulnerability tends to be understood in a narrowly biomedical way, rather than being seen as a part of life, conceived biographically and existentially and […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, August 18th, 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 “[Shelley Lynn Tremain’s] interview series, Dialogues on Disability, has arguably had a greater impact on the status of disabled philosophers in the profession than anything else […]
List of Participants for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 2 (#PhiDisSocCh2) Conference, University of Oxford Online, Dec. 7-10, 2021
Planning is already underway for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 2 (#PhiDisSocCh2) which will take place December 7-10, 1-7pm GMT. This year’s conference promises to be as groundbreaking as last year’s conference and has expanded to include more presentations. This year’s conference, like last year’s, is technically supported and funded by the Blavatnik School of […]
Eugenic Thinking in Australasia: An Anti-Eugenics Centennial, University of Western Australia Online, Sept. 3, 10, 14, 2021
Eugenics is often thought of as a social movement ending around 1945 with the end of the Second World War. Whether or not one accepts this view of eugenics, eugenic thinking has a reach into contemporary thinking and public policy. Eugenic thinking is the confluence of a goal with a way of achieving that goal. […]
Introduction to the Forthcoming Special Issue on Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic
I’m very pleased that the special issue of The International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies that I’ve guest edited on the theme Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic will be published in a few weeks. The issue includes articles by Johnathan Flowers; Gabriela Arguedas; Sara M. Bergstresser; Elvis Imafidon; Suze G. Berkhout, Lindsey MacGillivray, […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Will Conway
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the seventy-sixth 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 philosophers […]
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