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 […]
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 […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Conscientious Objections, Bioethics, and MAiD
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) sheds light on how the relatively recent deployment in bioethics of the term conscientious objection enables (neo)liberal eugenic goals. As a philosopher whose thinking has been formatively influenced by Foucault, my philosophical motivations derive in large part from a desire to problematize (in Foucault’s sense) what is […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On Arguments for Veganism, Sustainability, and Accessibility
This week’s quote of the week (though it’s only Thursday) concerns arguments for veganism and in particular follows from a defense for veganism that was offered in the discussion period of a recent online event. Last week, I attended a session of The Collective Ethics Seminar in which Tracy Isaacs gave a presentation entitled “Meat-Eating […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On Agency, Autonomy, and MAiD
This week’s quote of the week (though it’s only Thursday) returns us to earlier discussions of MAiD (on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and here) in which I point out that proponents of this mechanism of eugenics generally hold dated understandings about contemporary forms of power (its character, how it coalesces, how it operates, etc.), assuming facile liberal […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Alex Byrne on Gender and Disability
The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) extends my examination, in previous “quote of the week” posts, of the distinctly tendentious ways in which philosophers deploy ableist language to signify allegedly natural defect with respect to a purportedly universal intelligence and the material and institutional effects of these discursive practices. […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Joe Stramondo on Trans Athletes and Id*ots
The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) aims to further expose ableist language and its political histories, as well as underscore the contested status that the notion of intelligence should hold for philosophers. Indeed, an anti-ableist conceptualization of disability—viz. philosophy of disability—should assume that neither the notion of intelligence nor […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Judith Butler on Gender and Philosophy
The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) ushers in the publication of Judith Butler’s first book on gender in a decade: Who’s Afraid of Gender? Readers and listeners of my work on the apparatus of disability recognize how formative Butler’s claims about the performativity of gender and nonjuridical forms of […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Ableist, Racist, and Classist Job Postings
The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) concerns ableist, racist, and classist constraints on linguistic diversity and variation in philosophy. In her latest BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post, Mich Ciurria draws critical attention to some of the various ways in which journal referees constrain and “police” linguistic diversity in philosophy, including by […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Elena Ruíz on Implicit Bias
The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) concerns “implicit bias.” You may recall that, for a number of years, the concept of implicit bias dominated discussions at the Feminist Philosophers blog and other contexts elsewhere in philosophy. In these discussions, the concept of implicit bias served as a versatile causal […]
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