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 […]
The Foucauldian Mind — Out Later This Month! Pre-order It Now!
In February of this year, 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 44 chapters written by important scholars of Foucault’s work. I am delighted to be in their company […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bioethics as Eugenic Mechanism: A Précis
Below I have copied the text of a presentation that I am giving (via Zoom) to “The Body in Extremis: Fascism, Health, and the Auto-Immune State” Workshop (U of Illinois-Urbana Champaign) today. In this context, I want to send out the presentation to the tenured liberal Canadian philosophers who—apparently uninformed about ableism and the apparatus […]
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 […]
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 […]
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