“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 […]
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 […]
Special Issue of Análisis Filosófico: “Oppressive Argumentation: Silencing and Oppressive Speech in Argumentation” (deadline: Oct. 31, 2026)
This special issue aims to collect original articles in Spanish and English devoted to the analysis of oppressive discourses within our argumentative practices, with a particular emphasis on those commonly found in Latin American contexts. Informal logic, epistemology, and gender studies will serve as the central—though not exclusive—perspectives guiding this special issue. We may understand […]
Whose Judgement and What Counts as Winning?
As reported by Daily Nous, The Philosopher’s Annual — “The list aims to ‘select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year—an attempt as simple to state as it is admittedly impossible to fulfill’”– has announced its selections. This is the question that I posed to Sergio Tenenbaum (one of the editors/judges in the […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Johnathan Flowers
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and thirty-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 […]
The Foucault Century Symposium, UPenn/Hybrid, Sept. 24-25, 2026
Description of graphic above: a rectangular image that states The Foucault Century Symposium at top and the dates of the conference and institution below. On the right, there is a drawing of a smiling Foucault holding a book. The Foucault Century 2026 marks the centennial of Michel Foucault’s birth and the 50-year anniversary of the publication of his landmark History […]
Dinosaurs Got Cancer and Other Mythical Assumptions of Philosophy Bros and Obnoxious Overlords in Philosophy
Daniele Lorenzini’s landmark collection The Foucauldian Mind was published at the end of July. I’m thrilled that my work on disability is included in the collection, not least because the chapters that it comprises, when taken together, comprehensively demonstrate why philosophers should relinquish their appeal to, and dependence on, self-serving claims and outdated assumptions according […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at 8am 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 […]
Canadian Universities Set Up Secret Network to Crack Down on Student Pro-Palestine Demonstrators
The Breach has published an illuminating article about the secret network that Canadian universities set up and surveillance in which they engaged to crack down on student pro-Palestine demonstrators. Here is an excerpt from the article at The Breach: To find details about how your university was involved in the Network and its operations, go […]
Whither Foucault? Or, Another Lacuna in Canadian Philosophy Departments
In various posts here on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, I have pointed out that prospective disabled graduate students who want to study philosophy of disability/critical disability theory should not expect to do so in any informed and comprehensive way in a Canadian philosophy department. Liberal bioethics has occupied the corner of what can be said about disability […]
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