WHEN PLATO GETS CANCELLED: PHILOSOPHY in the AGE OF CENSORSHIP Martin Peterson, Formerly Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University in conversation with Karen Attiah, Founder of Resistance Studies Series June 24, 2026, Noon ET Virtual: http://www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon
How Canadian Philosophy Plays a Vital Role in the Project of Eugenics: Or, Gender, Schafer, and Other Nondisabled White Male Bioethicists
The annual in-person meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) begins at Dalhousie University tomorrow. Given that Dalhousie has played, and continues to play, a formative role in the development of bioethical and legal arguments that promote MAiD, eugenics will be “in the air” once again at the CPA meeting, not least because two of […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at 8 a.m.
“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 “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
A Working-Class Philosopher is Something to Be
The essay below appeared on the First-Generation Philosophers platform today. I enjoyed it so much that I reprinted it here. ********************************************************************************* A WORKING-CLASS PHILOSOPHER IS SOMETHING TO BE by Stephen Mumford Where I grew up, philosophy was not a career option. The area was mainly for farming and coal mining. Becoming an academic made me […]
FINALLY: Feminist Philosophy of Disability in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies
The final version of my article “Feminist Philosophy of Disability” has now been published online in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. I have copied the abstract for the article below. You can read/listen to the article here: Feminist Philosophy of Disability | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies | Oxford Academic This article […]
Acknowledging and Celebrating the Indisputable Importance of Michel Foucault
As friends of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY by now know, 2026 is the centenary of Michel Foucault’s birth in 1926. In a recent post, I wrote: Facebook is buzzing in anticipation of the publication of The Foucauldian Mind in September to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth. Edited by the illustrious Daniele Lorenzini, this landmark text has […]
Proposal for Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Disability
As I noted in last week’s anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, Katie Staal, Senior Acquisitions Editor at Oxford University Press, recently encouraged me to submit a proposal for a handbook on feminist philosophy of disability. I submitted the proposal, about which Katie was very enthusiastic and has sent out for review, earlier today. It […]
A Gender Icon Strikes Back
The latest issue of Weekend Reads, the supplement of The Chronicle of Higher Education, includes an episode of College Matters, the publication’s podcast, with Judith Butler. In the podcast, Butler gives a brief synopsis of their groundbreaking characterization of gender as performative and its impact on gender studies and queer theory, and then goes on […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain With Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Emily R. Douglas
Hello, I am Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the eleventh-anniversary 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 about […]
Philosophy and Theory of Disability in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies!
On April 9, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies (ORE) — a mammoth project whose contents will appear online on a rolling basis — was launched! As readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I edited/curated the Philosophy and Theory of Disability Area of the ORE (go here). Yesterday, several authors who wrote for the […]
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 