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
Canadian Cry-babies and MAiD
My fellow BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger, Mich Ciurria, often uses the term cry-baby to refer to the privileged nondisabled white men who populate philosophy in the US and complain about the (flailing) democratization of the profession there. Yet Canada has its own share of cry-babies in philosophy, in academia more broadly, and elsewhere, as a survey […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Abigail Gosselin
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and thirty-fifth 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 […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
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 […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Kristin Rodier
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and thirty-fourth 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 […]
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 […]
MAiD in Canada and Its Discontents
If you read Canadian media, you might have come across news items that indicate how the new leader of the federal New Democratic Party, Avi Lewis, has ‘voiced concerns about the trajectory of Canada’s “medical assistance in dying” (in a word, MAiD) regime’. As I wrote in an earlier post at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, when I […]
Aestheticizing Ableism and Curating Injustice: Lopes, Eaton, Irvin, and Others on Aesthetics and Disability
Recently, Luvell Anderson and I agreed that sometime in the near future we would attempt to coauthor an article on disability and humour. While disability is my jam, Luvell is an expert on aesthetics and in particular philosophical approaches to humour. Humour (unlike the apparatus of disability) has long been regarded as an important topic […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 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 “… 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 […]
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