I am very happy to announce that BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY has a new contributing author: Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, who is a disabled philosophy graduate student at the University of Aberdeen! Élaina has research interests in bioethics, Spinoza, feminst philosophy, and critical disability studies. To learn more about our newest blogger, check out her bio on our Blog […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, April 21st, at 8 a.m. EDT
“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 “The Dialogues on Disability platform … has been very helpful to me, especially at times where I did not feel I belong in the world of […]
CFP: Queerness Beyond Borders, Oxford Online, Jul. 7-9, 2021 (deadline: May 15, 2021)
Call for Papers: Queerness Beyond Borders Emerging Scholars’ Colloquium Deadline: 15 May 2021 We invite proposals for papers to be presented at an international conference entitled ‘Queerness Beyond Borders’, to take place online from Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th of July 2021, organised jointly by Worcester College (University of Oxford) and Philiminality Oxford. For the sake of timezone inclusivity, talks […]
CFP: Confronting Discrimination: Phenomenological and Genealogical Perspectives, Innsbruck, Oct. 27-29, 2021 (deadline: Apr. 30, 2021)
Outlining the agenda The idea of equal treatment is essential to the self-conception of democratic societies: the rule of law promises protection against arbitrary disadvantages. However, contemporary social reality is still haunted by forms of discrimination. Often, discrimination goes unnoticed, is tacitly tolerated or even endorsed. The global Black Lives Matter movement starkly revealed this contradiction, thus […]
Elizabeth Barnes’s Difference Principle and the Limitations of (Their) Analytic Philosophy of Disability
This post comprises excerpts from the chapter that I’m writing for The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, edited by Sally Haslanger, Brian Epstein, Hans Bernhard Schmid, and Stephanie Collins and forthcoming next year. In the chapter, I draw upon Tina Fernandes Botts’s work on the methodological differences between analytic philosophy and (so-called) Continental philosophy in […]
CFP: 2021 Virtual Conference for Underrepresented Students in Philosophy, Online, May 8th, 2021 (deadline: Apr. 16, 2021)
2021 Virtual Conference for Underrepresented Students in Philosophy We invite undergraduate students and master’s students to submit papers for the 2021 Conference for Under-Represented Students in Philosophy. Submissions are due April 16, 2021. The virtual conference will be held via Zoom on May 8, 2021. Conference participants (undergraduate students and master’s students) will have the opportunity to present […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Jennifer Scuro
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the seventy-second 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 […]
Discipline and Punish: Canadian Philosophy, Bill C-7, and Scapegoating
I wanted to write you a post in response to the passage of Bill C-7 in the Canadian House of Commons last week, the vote that, after the Senate signs off on it, will have made euthanasia in Canada entirely legal, that is, the vote that now enables physicians to offer their disabled patients, including […]
(How) Is Disability Relevant to the Field of Social Ontology?
The conception of disability that currently prevails in philosophy construes it as a philosophically uninteresting and value-neutral biological trait, that is, as a self-evidently natural and deleterious characteristic, difference, or property that some people embody or possess. Insofar as philosophers hold this naturalized and individualized conception of disability, they assume that disability is a prediscursive […]
The Disability Filibuster is Live!
The Disability Filibuster that I posted about on Sunday is now live. We were Zoom bombed twice shortly after we got started Monday evening and shut down temporarily. However, we were determined to resume as soon as the main organizers and media people at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), which has provided […]
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